• AfroMundo Festival: Angelica Screening & Panel Discussion

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    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

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    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

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    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...)

  • Film: Museo

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    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...)

  • Film: The Red Star (Argentina)

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    5:30 – 7:00 pm Tango demonstrations, tapas, and cash bar in Salon Ortega 7:00 pm film screening The Red Star (A Purim Story) is a mockumentary about Laila Salama, a mysterious woman who may have contributed to the 1960 kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, but who has been omitted from the official history. Director Gabriel Lichtmann presents her story through a series of interviews with a colorful cast of characters; putting together the pieces, the film discovers a secret that had been hidden for decades. (more...)

  • Film: Tarek

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    12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In Anatael Pérez’ Tarek, four young people, of different sexual orientations, relate their experiences of a night at a party where they met a young man named Tarek, offering a suggestive and enigmatic portrait of a character who will always remain out of the frame. 2021; Spanish with English subtitles; 9 minutes; not rated. Free Event Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, (more...)

  • Film: Antes de la erupción

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    12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here While a volcano can erupt without previous warning, it is more likely that it will emit different types of signals in advance, if we know how to recognize them—in people as well as in natural phenomena. Roberto Pérez Toledo’s Antes de la erupción, told in retrospect by one of five young participants in a trip to the volcanic island of Lanzarote, offers guidelines . 2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 10 minutes; not rated. Free community event (more...)

  • Film: Extraterrestrial (Spain)

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    6:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Join us for free tours of Fronteras del Futuro and other pre-film entertainment, including a cash bar and food from Phat Stax Burgers and More. 7:00 pm: Film screening When Julio wakes up in a strange apartment, his pleasure at realizing that he has spent the night with the beautiful Julia is complicated by the unexpected return of Julia’s boyfriend and the interference of a prying neighbor, as well as the discovery of a giant flying saucer hovering over the deserted city of Madrid and, (more...)