12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here María Trénor’s ¿Dónde estabas tú? challenges the viewer to reflect on the universal reality of violence against women, whether subtle or brutal. The interviews resulting in the three stories that make up this film were conducted in Mozambique and the Philippines. 2020; […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Esfinge urbana, the most experimental work in María Lorenzo’s extensive filmography, is a composition based on Valencian urban art, as documented in various neighborhoods between 2018 and 2019 and connected through animation like the frames of a film. 2020; Spanish with English […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here F.F.G. Un retrato is a short film dedicated to Fernán-Gómez by critic and filmmaker Jesús García de Dueñas. Through a montage of diverse images, the renowned actor and director reveals his motivations, his reflections on his work, and his philosophy of life. […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Manicomio, Fernán-Gómez’ directorial debut, reworks several stories from different sources about the world of inmates in psychiatric institutions. When the protagonist, Carlos, visits his girlfriend at the hospital where she works, the director of the facility introduces him to his niece, who […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Based on an actual event known as “the crime of Mazarrón,” El extraño viaje is a dark drama whose bizarre events entangle three siblings in a small provincial town near Madrid, as well as members of a band who come in from […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here A timid young boy growing up in a small Spanish town starts school for the first time, and with the nurturing and guidance of a kind teacher, a world of possibilities begins to open up for him. As the school year comes […]
7:30 pm AMP Concerts welcomes Jesse Cook. An accomplished guitarist and producer and an equally prolific filmmaker, Jesse Cook has developed his talents to create experiences that delight audiences, both in concert and online. He composed his first album, Tempest, over 25 years ago. Jesse could not imagine that such a humble recording, in which […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours( Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In José Luis Garci’s Asignatura pendiente, a clandestine love affair set during the last years of the Franco regime and the beginning of the transition to democracy (“la Transición”) offers insight into a changing society in which people like the film’s protagonists will have […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Set in the 1920s, Pedro Olea’s Un hombre llamado Flor de Otoño introduces one of the first homosexual characters in Spanish cinema, in an award-winning performance by José Sacristán. Lluís de Serracant is a young lawyer from a bourgeois Catalan family who leads a […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here On the top floor of a Buenos Aires hospital, an aging Spanish hitman who has spent half his life in Argentina realizes that he is dying. Escaping with a supply of morphine, he sets out on a journey north to nowhere, accompanied by a […]
