Film
Afro Mundo: Liz Olivia Fernandez
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM2:00 pm, Social Justice Film Screening, Discussion to immediately follow. We will show 30 minutes total of Uphill on the Hill and Hardliner on the Hudson. They are unreleased. Both docs are 30-40 minutes each but given an hour 20 minutes is generally too long for audiences; we'll show abridged and polished 15-minute segments of each. In Uphill on the Hill, award -winning Cuban journalist Liz Olivia Fernandez travels to Washington D.C., where she exposes the political interests driving the U.S. government’s Cold War-era policy toward Cuba. (more...)
Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Toxos e flores (2016)
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here A portrait of the landscape of the San Sadurniño area. Natural architectures, still-lifes, spaces of green lights and absolute browns. Filmmaker Lucía Vilela explores the texture of the cut wood, the tiles on the roofs of the houses, the tops of the trees that follow the cadence of the drums of Mociños de Igrexafeita (1971), a popular song that favors an atmosphere of rhythms sheltered by the texture of the celluloid. Free Community Event. About (more...)
Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Devociones (2023)
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Filmmakers Ángel Montero and María Serna explore healing rituals, baths, caresses, and care. Devociones is story of love and illness that explores the acceptance of loss and the real possibility of death. A sensory journey through the mirror in search of healing landscapes to celebrate life. Free Community Event. About the film series: Instituto Cervantes presents Arrebato en celuloide. Flashes of light and other divergences in Spanish cinema, a new film program that shows a selection of works (more...)
Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Ningún río me protexe de min (2021)
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Ningún río me protexe de min takes as its starting point the mysterious theft of a material from the Central African Republic, inside the forest of the Congo Basin. This acts as a response to the conflicts arising from the fragile and trans-subjective encounter with the not-self: an encounter that can only be practiced or experienced, because if it is virtualized, it ceases to exist. Free Community Event About the film series: Instituto Cervantes presents Arrebato en (more...)
Instituto Cervantes Film Series: La tarara (2021)
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here La tarara is a children's game and also the diary of a summer, a gift between friends, a love letter, a family portrait, a song, a wink of reality. Shot during the summer of 2021 in Seville, the film is not a closed piece, but a process that continues to date, like an eternal look, evoking the personal, the intimate, like a song of the soul. Free Community Event. About the film series: Instituto Cervantes presents Arrebato (more...)
Noche de Familia: Encanto
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM7:00 pm As part of our Noche De Familia: Invierno, an evening of family-friendly fun with a focus on celebrating winter and the holidays, the NHCC presents Encanto. Encanto is the tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal—every child (more...)
Afro Mundo: Faith in Blackness
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Wells Fargo Auditorium 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM7:00 pm, Panel Discussion to immediately follow How do we explore the uniqueness of AfroLatine Spirituality? How can we center the experiences of Black Latines and allow those experiences to help us understand Latine Spirituality and Theology? What can we learn from the lived experiences of AfroLatines and that relationship to their spiritual practices? Faith in Blackness: An Exploration of AfroLatine Spirituality is a short-form documentary which will highlight the lived experiences of AfroLatine individuals of different faith traditions by sharing their stories and how their Blackness (more...)
Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque: Film Series: Orgullo
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Juan Mariné. Goya de Honor: For the fourth consecutive year, the Cervantes Institute celebrates the Goya Honorary Award granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain this year 2024 to cinematographer and film inventor Juan Mariné Manuel Mur Oti’s Orgullo is the story of Laura when she returns to her village from Paris after ten years of absence. Her mother trusts her to take charge of the cattle ranch from now (more...)
Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque: Film Series: Un millón en la basura
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Juan Mariné. Goya de Honor: For the fourth consecutive year, the Cervantes Institute celebrates the Goya Honorary Award granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain this year 2024 to cinematographer and film inventor Juan Mariné José María Forqué’ Un millón en la basura is about Pepe Martínez works in the night cleaning service of Madrid watering the streets. His family is about to be evicted from their apartment, as they (more...)
Noche de Familia: Fiesta de Baile
NHCC Campus 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM5:00 to 7:00 pm Join us for a family-friendly dance party. Enjoy Valentine’s and music-inspired art activities, snacks, and learn some new dance moves! Extend the fun with our free family film, Selena, at 7:00 pm in the Albuquerque Journal Theatre. Free Community Event, generously supported by NM Gas.