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  • 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: Cartas mojadas

    12 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Through a mysterious voice from the bottom of the sea, Paula Palacios’ Cartas mojadas recounts a tragic epic of contemporary history. Following letters exchanged between mothers and children, the film accompanies the boat Open Arms on its mission to save 550 people from shipwreck, and then boards a Libyan coast guard ship for a look at corruption and human trafficking in one of the most dangerous places in the world, 2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 81 (more...)

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  • 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...)

  • AfroMundo Festival: Angelica Screening & Panel Discussion

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    7:00 pm Free community event This Spanish w/English subtitles film takes an intimate look at racial issues within a Puerto Rican family and brings taboo discussions of racial politics to the foreground.  “People talk about racism and sexism in the U.S.,” Film Director Gómez-Mouakad explains. “They may not do much, but in talking about it they are at least addressing the problem. In Puerto Rico — and across the Caribbean and Latin America — there is a lot of denial. If you do talk about the issues, (more...)

  • AfroMundo Festival: Jamaica y Tamarindo Screening & Panel Discussion

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    7:00 pm This Spanish w/English subtitles documentary explores Afro-Mexican identities via multiple perspectives.  Panelists include Film Director Ebony Marie Bailey, Dr. Dora Careaga Coleman, Heather Smith, and Naomi Ambriz. Free community event AfroMundo Festival Shared Roots: A Celebration of Afro-Latinx Culture AfroMundo was born of a desire to counter alienation and marginalization by fostering civic engagement. It was therefore founded on the principles of convite—an age-old collaborative tradition that enables community members to pool their talents and scarce resources for rituals of life, socialization and mutual support, (more...)

  • 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...)

  • Film: Sleep Dealer

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    5:00 pm–7:00 pm DJ, cash bar, and food truck 5;30 pm–6:30 pm Pre-film museum tours 7:00 pm Film Screening Join us for pre-film tours of the exhibition, Fronteras del Futuro , then jam to futuristic tunes by DJ Sunai. Cash bar and food truck.  The place:  Mexico.  The time:  The near future.  The world is divided by closed borders, but connected by a digital network that ties people together around the world.  In Santa Ana del Río, Oaxaca, where a corporation controls the small village’s water supply, (more...)

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  • Film: Museo

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    5:00 pm–7:00 pm DJ, cash bar, and food truck 7:00 pm Film Screening Well into their 30s, Juan and Benjamin can’t seem to finish veterinary school or leave their parents’ homes in Satélite, Mexico City’s version of an American suburb. On a fateful Christmas eve, however, they decide it’s finally time to distinguish themselves by pulling off the most infamous heist of cultural artifacts in all of Mexican history—looting the country’s iconic National Anthropology Museum. Museo Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios features Gael García Bernal, Simon Russell Beale, (more...)

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