Theatre

12 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE In Berlanga’s 1961 film Plácido, an impoverished truck driver in rural Spain becomes involved in a Christmas Eve “Invite a poor person to dinner” event sponsored by a cookware manufacturer. The fast-paced, darkly comic farce takes a satirical look at the true meaning of charity, contrasting charity from the head—the cold, calculated kind practiced by a hypocritical upper class—with charity from the heart. Spain; 1961; Spanish with English subtitles; 85 minutes; not rated. Free community event

12 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE An illustrious American rocket scientist, wearied of working on atomic bombs and increasingly concerned about their destructive potential, flees the country to find refuge in Calabuch, a small village on Spain’s Mediterranean coast, in Berlanga’s 1956 film of the same name. First taken for a smuggler’s accomplice and then for a kindly tramp, he soon blends into the everyday life of the community, but when he helps his neighbors win a fireworks competition, the international authorities

12 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Una corriente salvaje, Nuria Ibañez’ third feature film, explores the daily lives and the burgeoning relationship of two men who have chosen to live on an isolated beach in Baja California, Mexico, leaving their separate pasts behind, living off the grid, and fishing to survive. Alone with only the sand and water for company, Omar and Chilo become unlikely friends as they harvest food from the ocean, share meals together, and talk late into the

12 pm (MST) Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Baracoa, by Pablo Briones and The Moving Picture Boys (Sean Clark and Jace Freeman), documents the lifelong friendship between nine-year-old Leonel and thirteen-year-old Antúan, two boys who live in Pueblo Textil, a small village in the Cuban countryside. During the hot summer holidays, the boys explore the isolated areas surrounding the town, bonding through games, fights, and simple pleasures, as well as conversations about everyday life and existential questions. But just as Cuban society is