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  • Film: Hija de la laguna

    12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In Ernesto Cabellos’ Hija de la laguna, a young campesina in the Andes struggles to defend the lagoon that she considers her mother against South America’s largest gold mining company. Just under the lagoons of the Peruvian region of Cajamarca are rich deposits of gold, pitting farmers who fear that they will run out of water against large corporations seeking to exploit these natural resources. 2015; Spanish with English subtitles; 87 minutes; not rated. Free community (more...)

  • Film: Equipo D: los códigos olvidados

    12 pm (available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Jorge Laplace’s Equipo D: los códigos olvidados documents a story of World War II that has yet to be told. Team D, formed by Spanish Republicans in exile, played a decisive role in the Allied victory by deciphering codes encrypted by Germany’s Enigma machine. 2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 61 minutes; rated PG-13. Free community event In March, Instituto Cervantes initiates a collaboration with the Valladolid International Film Week (SEMINCI), Spain’s oldest film festival, screening four (more...)

  • Film: Cartas mojadas

    12 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Through a mysterious voice from the bottom of the sea, Paula Palacios’ Cartas mojadas recounts a tragic epic of contemporary history. Following letters exchanged between mothers and children, the film accompanies the boat Open Arms on its mission to save 550 people from shipwreck, and then boards a Libyan coast guard ship for a look at corruption and human trafficking in one of the most dangerous places in the world, 2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 81 (more...)

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  • Film: A media voz

    12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Patricia Pérez and Heidi Hassan, directors of A media voz, are childhood friends who face the challenges of uprooting as they try to rebuild their lives away from Cuba. This moving auto-ethnographic documentary about nostalgia, friendship, roots, and exile reflects the uneasiness of an entire generation. 2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 80 minutes; rated G. Free community event In April, Instituto Cervantes continues its annual collaboration with the Malaga Festival, Cinema in Spanish, screening four contemporary (more...)

  • Film: Sanmao, la novia del desierto

    12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In the 1970s, Chinese writer Sanmao and Spanish diver José María Quero traveled to the Spanish Sahara, where Sanmao captured their daily experiences in a best-selling book, Tales from the Sahara. In Sanmao, la novia del desierto, filmmakers Marta Arribas and Ana Pérez recount the story of two people from radically different worlds whose relationship, marked by love, adventure, and tragedy, ultimately served to unite these worlds. Sanmao’s public persona remains iconic to this day. 2020; (more...)

  • Film: Érase una vez en Venezuela, Congo Mirador

    12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In Anabel Rodríguez Ríos’ “reflection of a divided country,” the floating village of Congo Mirador, a short distance from Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo, is seen through the eyes of two women, espousing opposing ideologies, who are still trying to sustain life in a town that is dying from drought, pollution, corruption, and neglect. 2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 99 minutes; rated PG-13. Free community event In April, Instituto Cervantes continues its annual collaboration with the Malaga Festival, (more...)

  • Film: Tarek

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    12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In Anatael Pérez’ Tarek, four young people, of different sexual orientations, relate their experiences of a night at a party where they met a young man named Tarek, offering a suggestive and enigmatic portrait of a character who will always remain out of the frame. 2021; Spanish with English subtitles; 9 minutes; not rated. Free Event Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, (more...)

  • Film: Hidroalcohólico

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    12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In Roberto Pérez Toledo’s Hidroalcohólico, two boys on a blind date discuss the problems, occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, of coming into physical contact with another person. Between comedy and paradox, the short film explores the surreal situations that this new reality has unleashed. 2020; Spanish with English subtitles; 6 minutes; not rated. Free community event Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, (more...)

  • Film: Yo soy una niña

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    12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Richard Zubelzu’s Yo soy una niña documents the reality of transsexuality in childhood, while emphasizing the important role of grandparents and their unconditional love for their grandchildren. 2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 20 minutes; not rated. Free community event Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and presented around the celebration of Pride Day. This July, Pedro Zerolo of Madrid’s Cinemateca, whose political (more...)

  • Film: (A) Normal

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    12:00 pm (available for 48 hours) Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Leo, Juan, David, and Lucio meet in the gym locker room—four people with four different views on issues such as masculinity. Miguel Parra’s (A) Normal demonstrates, through the debates that ensue, that “normality” is as personal as each individual’s particular essence and prejudices. 2021; Spanish with English subtitles; 12 minutes; not rated. Free cummunity event Instituto Cervantes presents an annual cycle of short films dedicated to gender diversity, dealing with different approaches to LGTBIQ+ reality, and (more...)