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  • Film: Manicomio

    12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Manicomio, Fernán-Gómez’ directorial debut, reworks several stories from different sources about the world of inmates in psychiatric institutions. When the protagonist, Carlos, visits his girlfriend at the hospital where she works, the director of the facility introduces him to his niece, who is obsessed with playing the harp continuously, and to a nurse who repeats word for word what Carlos says. 1954; Spanish with English subtitles; 80 minutes; rated PG-13. Free community event In (more...)

  • Film: La lengua de las mariposas

    12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here A timid young boy growing up in a small Spanish town starts school for the first time, and with the nurturing and guidance of a kind teacher, a world of possibilities begins to open up for him. As the school year comes to a close, however, civil war begins to sweep across the country, and as sides are drawn, the forces of fear, violence, and betrayal alter profoundly what should be the pleasure of (more...)

  • Film: Asignatura pendiente

    12 pm (available for 48 hours( Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In José Luis Garci’s Asignatura pendiente, a clandestine love affair set during the last years of the Franco regime and the beginning of the transition to democracy (“la Transición”) offers insight into a changing society in which people like the film’s protagonists will have to forge a new future. 1977; Spanish with English subtitles; 109 minutes; rated R. Free community event The Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually awards a special prize, the (more...)

  • Film: Un hombre llamado Flor de Otoño

    12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Set in the 1920s, Pedro Olea’s Un hombre llamado Flor de Otoño introduces one of the first homosexual characters in Spanish cinema, in an award-winning performance by José Sacristán. Lluís de Serracant is a young lawyer from a bourgeois Catalan family who leads a surprising double life: during the day, he practices his legal profession, and at night he transforms himself into Flor de Otoño, a well-known transvestite who performs in a small cabaret in Barcelona. (more...)

  • Film: El muerto y ser feliz

    12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here On the top floor of a Buenos Aires hospital, an aging Spanish hitman who has spent half his life in Argentina realizes that he is dying. Escaping with a supply of morphine, he sets out on a journey north to nowhere, accompanied by a girl whom he meets on the road. Javier Rebollo’s dark comedy El muerto y ser feliz is the vehicle for one of José Sacristán’s most riveting performances. 2012; Spanish with English subtitles; (more...)

  • Film: Un lugar en el mundo

    12 pm (available for 48 hours( Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Adolfo Aristarain’s Un lugar en el mundo follows the experiences of adolescent Ernesto and his parents, who, after years of exile during Argentina’s “Dirty War,” have moved to a small village in a remote valley to put their ideals into practice running a school, wool cooperative, and clinic. When a Spanish geologist arrives to survey the land for the local patrón and see if it can be dammed for hydroelectric power—a threat to the locals’ way (more...)

  • Film: Silvia

    12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here María Silvia Esteve’s Silvia attempts to make sense of a personal history steeped in violence and denial, experimenting with blurred images of the Argentine filmmaker’s parents and the inconsistent memories of her sisters. It is a portrait of the bond between a mother and her daughters, and a revelation of unspoken words that find new meanings beyond pain. 2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 103 minutes; not rated. Free community event In March, Instituto Cervantes initiates a (more...)

  • Film: Hija de la laguna

    12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In Ernesto Cabellos’ Hija de la laguna, a young campesina in the Andes struggles to defend the lagoon that she considers her mother against South America’s largest gold mining company. Just under the lagoons of the Peruvian region of Cajamarca are rich deposits of gold, pitting farmers who fear that they will run out of water against large corporations seeking to exploit these natural resources. 2015; Spanish with English subtitles; 87 minutes; not rated. Free community (more...)

  • Film: Equipo D: los códigos olvidados

    12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Jorge Laplace’s Equipo D: los códigos olvidados documents a story of World War II that has yet to be told. Team D, formed by Spanish Republicans in exile, played a decisive role in the Allied victory by deciphering codes encrypted by Germany’s Enigma machine. 2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 61 minutes; rated PG-13. Free community event In March, Instituto Cervantes initiates a collaboration with the Valladolid International Film Week (SEMINCI), Spain’s oldest film festival, screening four (more...)

  • Film: A media voz

    12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Patricia Pérez and Heidi Hassan, directors of A media voz, are childhood friends who face the challenges of uprooting as they try to rebuild their lives away from Cuba. This moving auto-ethnographic documentary about nostalgia, friendship, roots, and exile reflects the uneasiness of an entire generation. 2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 80 minutes; rated G. Free community event In April, Instituto Cervantes continues its annual collaboration with the Malaga Festival, Cinema in Spanish, screening four contemporary (more...)