Film
Film: Better Days
Virtual12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Fran Herrero Ansoleaga’s Better Days presents the testimonies of five people who have fled harassment in their home countries because of their gender identities and have sought asylum in Spain. Before the director’s camera, they share their fears, doubts, and certainties, as well as their belief that “everything gets better.” 2021; Spanish with English subtitles; 9 minutes; not rated. Free community event Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing (more...)
Film: Violeta Went to Heaven (Chile)
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-305:30 pm to 6:15 pm - Chilean folkloric music performed live 6:15 pm to 6:45 pm - “Violeta Parra in context” historical presentation by Dr. Carson Morris 7:00 pm - Film Screening Andrés Wood’s Violeta Went to Heaven tells the story of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, tracing her evolution from impoverished child to international sensation and Chile's national hero, and interweaving key set pieces from Parra’s life to capture the swirling intensity of her inner contradictions, fallibilities, and passions. Loosely based on Ángel Parra's (more...)
¡Globalquerque!: International Cinema Series: Hotel Salvation
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:00 pm Hotel Salvation (Mukti Bhawan) follows the story of a reluctant son who must take his father to the holy city of Varanasi, where his father believes he will breathe his last and attain salvation. When a 77-year-old man, Daya, wakes up from a strange nightmare, he knows his time is up and he must get to Varanasi immediately in hope of dying there to attain salvation. His dutiful son, Rajiv, is left with no choice but to drop everything and make the journey with his (more...)
¡Globalquerque!: International Cinema Series: The Square (Sweden)
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:00 pm A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit. Respected and contemporary art museum curator Christian, a devoted father of two who is divorced, drives an electric car and supports good causes. His next exhibit is "The Square", an installation which invites passersby to altruism, reminding them of their role as responsible fellow human beings. But sometimes, it is difficult to live up to your own ideals: (more...)
Our Lady of the Tortilla
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-MeetingThursday-Sunday, September 8-11, 2022 7:30pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday 2pm on Sunday Sandia Performing Arts Company and the NHCC present Our Lady of the Tortilla by Luis Santeiro, directed by Rayrey Griego. The Cruz family is volatile even in the best of times. On this particular day, Nelson, the youngest son, enters the house in a panic to hide the more obvious religious relics from the sight of his “gringo” girlfriend, who is visiting for the weekend. Nelson’s mother, Dahlia, is obsessed with retrieving her husband (more...)
¡Cine Magnifico! The Last Movie (USA)
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-305:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.- Film Screening 6:45 p.m. Talk with journalist Fietta Jarque Dennis Hopper's second feature film after making his directorial debut with Easy Rider. The Last Movie (1971) was shot in Peru and edited at the artist's home in Taos (New Mexico). Consciously self-reflexive and co-written by Hopper and Rebel Without a Cause screenwriter Stewart Stern. The Last Movie follows a Hollywood movie crew in the midst of making a western in a remote Peruvian village. When production wraps, Hopper, as the baleful stuntman (more...)
¡Cine Magnifico! Canción Sin Nombre (Peru)
6:00 p.m. Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980’s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story. 2019; directed by Melina León; Spanish and Quechua with English subtitles; Not Rated Free Community Event Note: Tickets for this and other Cine (more...)
¡Cine Magnifico! Pizarro (Colombia)
8:00 p.m. This is a story about the burden of family heritage. It begins when María José, in exile in Barcelona, realizes that - no matter how far she runs - she cannot escape the ghost of her father, Carlos Pizarro, an M-19 commander assassinated on April 26, 1990 after signing a successful peace treaty with the Colombian government. Pizarro is an iconic figure of war and peace in Colombia. Twenty years after his assassination, she returns to her country to understand the causes that led to (more...)
Albuquerque Film & Music Experience: 10th Anniversary Edition
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-309:30 am to 10:00 pm Thursday & Friday 10:00 am to 11:00 pm Saturday 9:30 am to 4:30 pm Sunday The Albuquerque Film & Music Experience celebrate their 10th anniversary at the NHCC with a festival, taking place across Albuquerque, that runs from Tuesday, Sept. 13 through Sunday, Sept. 18. The Experience will include a wide variety of short and feature-length narrative and documentary films, music, and animated videos from around the world. In addition, they will present their popular Center Stage Conversations, Master Classes, and their (more...)
¡Globalquerque!: International Cinema Series: The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307:00 pm Single mother Hanna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos, the family is managing to keep their home as a safe haven, full of life and full of light. Every member of the family has a passion for cinema, motivating them to shoot a film inspired by their own life during a time of war. The creative process raises the question of what kind of power the magical (more...)