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  • Film: Sanmao, la novia del desierto

    12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In the 1970s, Chinese writer Sanmao and Spanish diver José María Quero traveled to the Spanish Sahara, where Sanmao captured their daily experiences in a best-selling book, Tales from the Sahara. In Sanmao, la novia del desierto, filmmakers Marta Arribas and Ana Pérez recount the story of two people from radically different worlds whose relationship, marked by love, adventure, and tragedy, ultimately served to unite these worlds. Sanmao’s public persona remains iconic to this day. 2020; (more...)

  • Film: Érase una vez en Venezuela, Congo Mirador

    12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In Anabel Rodríguez Ríos’ “reflection of a divided country,” the floating village of Congo Mirador, a short distance from Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo, is seen through the eyes of two women, espousing opposing ideologies, who are still trying to sustain life in a town that is dying from drought, pollution, corruption, and neglect. 2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 99 minutes; rated PG-13. Free community event In April, Instituto Cervantes continues its annual collaboration with the Malaga Festival, (more...)

  • ¡Cine Magnifico! The Last Movie (USA)

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    5:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.- Film Screening 6:45 p.m. Talk with journalist Fietta Jarque Dennis Hopper's second feature film after making his directorial debut with Easy Rider. The Last Movie (1971) was shot in Peru and edited at the artist's home in Taos (New Mexico). Consciously self-reflexive and co-written by Hopper and Rebel Without a Cause screenwriter Stewart Stern. The Last Movie follows a Hollywood movie crew in the midst of making a western in a remote Peruvian village. When production wraps, Hopper, as the baleful stuntman (more...)

  • ¡Cine Magnifico! Canción Sin Nombre (Peru)

    6:00 p.m. Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980’s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story. 2019; directed by Melina León; Spanish and Quechua with English subtitles; Not Rated Free Community Event Note: Tickets for this and other Cine (more...)

  • ¡Cine Magnifico! Pizarro (Colombia)

    8:00 p.m. This is a story about the burden of family heritage. It begins when María José, in exile in Barcelona, realizes that - no matter how far she runs - she cannot escape the ghost of her father, Carlos Pizarro, an M-19 commander assassinated on April 26, 1990 after signing a successful peace treaty with the Colombian government. Pizarro is an iconic figure of war and peace in Colombia. Twenty years after his assassination, she returns to her country to understand the causes that led to (more...)

  • ¡Cine Magnifico! & ¡Globalquerque!: ¡NYICFF Kid Flicks!

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    11:00 a.m. ¡NYICFF Kid Flicks! celebrates the best Spanish-language short films from around the globe. This program includes seven short films for children. Free Community Event Presented as part of the free ¡Globalquerque! Global Fiesta and International Cinema Series Note: Tickets for this and other Cine Magnifico showings will be available at the door one hour prior to the screening. 11:40 (Argentina)  When Damián gets a watch for his birthday, he and his little brother Matias can’t stop checking it, anxiously waiting for 11:40 to arrive. 2018; Live Action, directed (more...)

  • Oralidad Festival: Opening ceremony & Inaugural Talk featuring Enrique Lamadrid and Demetria Martínez

    NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting

    5:00 pm Inauguration. Opening ceremony with the presence of the director of Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque, Silvia Grijalba, and the Consul of Spain in Texas and New Mexico, Mrs. Julia Olmo. 5:05 pm Enrique Lamadrid and Demetria Martínez kick off the 20222 Oralidad Festival by leading a discussion titled "'The Voice of My Conscience:' Life, Times, and Talents of Luis S. Martínez (1898-1986): memories of a poet of the people and the rescue of his work." In this presentation, social activist, poet, journalist, and novelist Demetria Martínez joins (more...)

  • Oralidad Festival: Francisco Carrillo Martín

    NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting

    6:15 pm Join us as essayist and teacher Francisco Carrillo Martín gives a talk that delves into some of the ideas in his latest book, Fuera de foco: cinco derivas por la obra de Juan Rulfo, which was published at the end of 2021. Through the Mexican author's literature and photography, he will reflect on how the migratory process of the 1940s and 1950s to the main Latin American cities transformed the voices and landscapes of the rural tradition. Instituto Cervantes, AMP Concerts, and the National Hispanic (more...)

  • Oralidad Festival: Songs and Stories from the Native American Performing Arts Program

    NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting

    11:00 am Music, dance, and storytelling intermingle in a program that showcases Native American pride and culture. It is an intertribal presentation, directed by John Williams, that will be performed by students from Albuquerque Public Schools. The program will include two Native American songs, two winter stories accompanied by performances, and a Native American dance that allows for audience participation. This activity will also allow attendees to develop communication and life skills. Instituto Cervantes, AMP Concerts, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center present the second edition of (more...)

  • Oralidad Festival: Enrique Lamadrid & Susana Rivera

    NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting

    4:00 pm Authors and University of New Mexico professors Dr. Enrique Lamadrid and Dr. Susana Rivera present the latest collection of poems by E.A. "Tony" Mares: Reflections through the Convex Mirror of Time: Poems in Remembrance of the Spanish Civil War. They will be joined at the event by the four poets who wrote the back cover texts for this volume: Levi Romero, Demetria Martinez, Gary Brower, and Michael Thomas. Instituto Cervantes, AMP Concerts, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center present the second edition of the Oralidad Festival. (more...)