7 pm Marina Lameiro’s 2018 documentary offers a portrait of a disenchanted generation, as four young people ponder their current situations, their futures, and a social system in which they do not seem to fit. Young and Beautiful was filmed over the course of two years, at several locations in the Basque Country, Navarre, Catalonia, […]
12 pm on Monday, October 25 until 12 pm on Sunday, October 31 Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In October, Instituto Cervantes is collaborating for a third year with FIVER (Festival de Cine, Danza y Nuevos Medios) to present a cycle of short films: La mirada de ellas: 10 años de cinedanza en España, curated by FIVER director Samuel Retortillo. The screenings are among the activities celebrating the tenth anniversary of Baila España, held […]
7 pm From the personal to the political, the experiences of diverse women speak of how masculinized and violent the public streets still remain. In three insightful conversations with female friends, collaborators, and high school students, Xiana do Teixeiro’s 2018 film Tódallas mulleres que coñezo seeks a discourse on fear that is not frightening, a […]
7 pm Samuel Alarcón’s 2018 documentary traces the last days of the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, exiled, buried, and almost forgotten in Bordeaux, and the mystery surrounding his body. Years after his death, when Goya’s remains were exhumed to be returned to Spain, it was discovered that someone had stolen the head […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Jaione Camborda’s debut feature film Arima is a story, steeped in mystery, of four women and a girl whose lives are altered when two strangers arrive unexpectedly in their village. The events in this “ghost film” move between real and imagined, nightmare […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In Mamen Díaz’ indie comedy Violeta no coge el ascensor, twenty-something Violeta is spending a stifling summer in Madrid as an intern in a publishing house. Dodging the heat between affairs that only multiply her self-doubts, she makes new friends and makes […]
Reception—6 pm, Cayetana Romero Lobby Introduction to Festival Oralidad—6:30 pm, Wells Fargo Auditorium Concert, Nacha Mendez Trio—7:30 pm, Bank of America Theatre Reception and festival introduction free to the public; concert tickets $17 w/ $2 discount for NHCC members, purchase Here Please note: Both the festival introduction and the concert will require either a proof […]
7:30 pm Nacha Mendez combines storytelling, music, and song in a journey through her personal experience that speaks to her Latin blood, Native American history, and experience as an artist throughout Europe. Mendez grew up in the small border town of La Union in southern New Mexico, where she began singing and playing guitar at […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) Alexis Delgado’s This Film Is About Me is a singular portrait of Renata Felicitas Soskey, serving time in a Galician prison for the brutal murder of her neighbor. Renata sees it clearly: this film is about her—about her personality, her charisma, her poetry, and her unpredictability, and not about […]
Interactive Recital Workshop for Children, Michelle Adam—12 pm, Wells Fargo Auditorium Workshop, Emmy Tither—1:30 pm, Wells Fargo Auditorium Round Table Discussion, Nicolasa Chávez & Orlando Romero—4 pm, Wells Fargo Auditorium Concert, Shkeme and Native Roots—7 pm, Bank of America Theatre All events free to the public; previous registration for the workshops required by e-mail at […]
