Film
Reflexiones y Realidades: Artist Reflections & Dialogue on the Border
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM7:00 – 8:30 pm NHCC | Bank of America Theatre Join us for the Albuquerque premiere of Savior, a short film directed, edited, and filmed in Albuquerque by filmmaker Ray Santisteban. The film features Albuquerque poet Marcial Delgado, who has been invited to create a dialogue between the community of poets in Albuquerque writing on immigration and Dr. Laura Belmonte, an Associate Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UNM and author of the book Borderland Brutalities: Violence in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Culture, and Art. (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: La mirada tabú. Asómate al interior: Places
Virtual12:00 pm MST All the films can be seen in the link below: https://vimeo.com/showcase/la-mirada-tabu 2018 was a landmark year for women directors and screenwriters working in the film industry. An example of this is this magnificent debut by Claudia Barral: a search in experimental format of human memory in the inhabited and loved spaces and the imprint we leave on them. Sensations and memories that we rarely name out loud. Synopsis: Places explores the limits of time and its passage. The short film captures the journey to (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: La mirada tabú. Asómate al interior: Cuentas divinas
Virtual12:00 pm MST All the films can be seen in the link below: https://vimeo.com/showcase/la-mirada-tabu Eulalia Ramón, a renowned Spanish actress, presents her first work as a director, produced by her daughter Anna Saura. This is a very black comedy that places a serial killer at the center of a narrative with social undertones that breaks the fourth wall and invites us to ask ourselves about our own taboos. Synopsis: Monica is a normal woman with a normal life in a normal place in any of these modern (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: La mirada tabú. Asómate al interior: Pequeño
Virtual12:00 pm MST All the films can be seen in the link below: https://vimeo.com/showcase/la-mirada-tabu Álvaro G. Company and Meka Ribera humorously present us with a moral dilemma in which parents confront their love for their daughter and the novel options of bioethics. It is one of the most transgressive works that have come to the festival La Mirada Tabú, not only because of its subject matter, but also because it gives voice to thoughts that many parents have had at some point and would never confess. Synopsis: (more...)
AfroMundo Festival: Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion: We Will Not Perish
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM3:00 pm NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium Screening of documentary Ayiti Pap Peri: Ayiti Will Not Perish. A spotlight on Haitian expatriates returning to work on behalf of their country. Panelists include the documentary’s director and journalist Cassandre Thrasybule, Haitian American author Patrick Sylvain, Afro Cuban artist and actress Lili Bernard, and documentarist Aida Esther Bueno Sarduy. Followed by a Q&A. Free Community Event. This event is part of the 2025 AfroMundo Festival: Troubled Territories: The Will to Heal. About the Festival: From April 12 – 19, enjoy music, literature, oral (more...)
AfroMundo Festival: Documentary Screening: Together We Stand
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM7:00 pm NHCC | Bank of America Theatre Screening of documentary Standing Above the Clouds. Through the lens of mothers and daughters in three Native Hawaiian families, the film explores intergenerational healing and the impacts of safeguarding cultural sites. Panelists include Hawaiian tradition bearer Pua Case; Alaskan playwright Marleah Makpiaq LaBelle; Grand Canyon Havasupai Carletta Tilousi. Moderated by filmmaker Amber Espinosa. Followed by a Q&A. Free Community Event. This event is part of the 2025 AfroMundo Festival: Troubled Territories: The Will to Heal. About the Festival: From (more...)
AfroMundo Festival: Documentary Screening: No Other Land
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM7:00 pm NHCC | Bank of America Theatre Screening of this year's Oscar winner for Best Documentary, “No Other Land,” made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four directors. Over the course of five years, Basel Adra films his Palestinian community of Massager Yatta being destroyed and its populace incarcerated, all as he builds an alliance with an Israeli journalist. Panelists include Palestinian Muslim-American grassroots feminist and organizer Samia Assed, Nicole D. Porter, Senior Director of Advocacy at The Sentencing Project, and Brandi Kellam, a Gracie and Emmy awarded Journalist. Moderated (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: La mirada tabú. Asómate al interior: La hija indigna
Virtual12:00 pm MST All the films can be seen in the link below: https://vimeo.com/showcase/la-mirada-tabu This heartbreaking documentary, created by the young Argentine filmmaker Abril Dores based on real events, explores the relationship between a genocidal father and his daughter. It is an inquiry into family ties and the deep emotions that bind us to people we do not always consider worthy of our love. It is a brilliant cinematographic work that confronts us with our inner demons and taboos. Synopsis: Analía Kalinec wakes up every day knowing (more...)
PAPA’s Senior Showcase 2025
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:00 pm The Senior Class of 2025 at Public Academy for Performing Arts showcases what they do best in music, dance, theatre, and visual art. Don’t miss your opportunity to see these rising stars as this event is one night only! Approximate length of event: 2 hours $10, $20, & $30. No other discounts. *The event is a rental event not an NHCC production. The title, content, photos/images and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue for the (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: La mirada tabú. Asómate al interior: Happy Friday
Virtual12:00 pm MST All the films can be seen in the link below: https://vimeo.com/showcase/la-mirada-tabu This situation comedy by José Antonio Campos explores such a current and little named topic as the care of dependent relatives, through a hilarious story that transforms pain into laughter, and also provides an unusual solution to the vital anguish of a housewife who has sacrificed her whole life for her family and has never received gratitude or a kind word. Synopsis: Chari has been on the edge of her life, she can't (more...)