Theatre

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 girl whom he meets on the road. Javier Rebollo’s dark comedy El muerto y ser feliz is the vehicle for one of José Sacristán’s most riveting performances. 2012; Spanish with English subtitles;

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 surprising double life: during the day, he practices his legal profession, and at night he transforms himself into Flor de Otoño, a well-known transvestite who performs in a small cabaret in Barcelona.

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 to a close, however, civil war begins to sweep across the country, and as sides are drawn, the forces of fear, violence, and betrayal alter profoundly what should be the pleasure of