Performing Arts

8 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Ian de la Rosa’s 2015 film Victor XX, set in a small fishing village on the coast of Almería, explores the conflicts and difficulties of a search for sexual identity. Victor, unsure if he feels more male or more female, enjoys the ambiguity, but must deal with the expectations of his mother and girlfriend, the lack of understanding in his community, and the anxiety involved in a final decision. 2015; Spanish with English subtitles; 20 minutes; (more...)

8 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Director Enric Ribes’ 2017 documentary Cantando desde las azoteas is an emotional and tender tribute to its protagonist, Gilda Love, who was baptized Eduardo Enrique Gustavo Francisco, but never felt that he was any of these men. As the last drag queen in Barcelona’s former “barrio chino” (the historical neighborhood of El Raval), he still takes the stage every night, at the age of 90, under the name he adopted as homage to Rita Hayworth’s signature (more...)

8 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Snap, a 2018 documentary by Chilean filmmakers Felipe Elgueta and Ananké Pereira, is the most experimental film in this series—composed through fragments of the audiovisual content of social media, and offering a mosaic of individual reflections on sexual and gender identity. 2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 20 minutes; not rated. Free community event During the month of July, in a collaboration with film distributor Marvin & Wayne, the Vimeo channel of Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque hosts Te (more...)

8 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Alma, the protagonist of Santiago León Cuéllar’s 2018 film of the same name, has just entered a new high school, and her classmate Victor invites her to a party. The ongoing changes in her body, and her hidden desires, lead her to face her inner fears and begin the process of self-acceptance—loving herself as she is. 2018; Spanish with English subtitles; 17 minutes; not rated. Free community event During the month of July, in a collaboration (more...)

8 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE In her 2021 documentary El cuerpo de la mujer sin sombra, Tamara García Iglesias traces the life and work of Alicia D’Amico, following her artistic trajectory through Buenos Aires, Paris, and Geneva in search of “shadows” of her presence. One of the best-known photographers of her time, D’Amico worked from the late 1950s until her death in Buenos Aires in 2001. She was recognized as a feminist and lesbian pioneer, and in her later, less (more...)