Film: El espíritu de la colmena/The Spirit of the Beehive
7 pm In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of Spain’s devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie showing of the 1931 version of Frankenstein. […]
7 pm In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of Spain’s devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie showing of the 1931 version of Frankenstein. […]
7 pm In 1944, as Franco consolidates his hold on the country, Ofelia and her pregnant mother are sent to live in rural Spain with her new stepfather, a ruthless […]
Free day programming—10:30 am to 4 pm Evening concert—6 pm Festival Chispa: featuring Latin Grammy nominee Ceci Bastida and internationally acclaimed Mexican Institute of Sound, joined by some of New […]
7 pm Lautaro, a ten-year-old boy, lives in southern Mexico’s Tierra Caliente in the 1940s. Sent to live with an aunt after his father’s murder, he runs away to return […]
7 pm In a comic fable that breaks down gender and body size stereotypes, renowned stand-up comedian Andrea Ortega stars as the titular protagonist, who is wrongly fired from her […]
Photo credit: Miguel A. Gandert: Violines volando / Violins in Flight, from Hotel Mariachi, University of New Mexico Press
7 pm A distinguished writer declares in an interview that he should die consumed by flames, but instead is run over and dies without identification. When an assistant coroner and […]
7 pm An elderly couple are forced to steal and sell their belongings in order to survive when their pensions are suspended during a financial and social crisis. Their lives […]
7 pm An innocent girl from the country becomes a sought-after but embittered Mexico City courtesan after her affair with a soldier causes her to be rejected by her family […]
7 pm A powerful and ruthless landowner on the Venezuelan plains, hardened by a brutal gang rape and the murder of her first love, finds herself attracted to a man […]