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February 2021
2021 Winter ABQ Virtual Jewish Film Fest: The House on Wannsee Street
Screening—Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 7 pm (MST)
* Available for 72 hours *
Zoom Conversation—Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 12 pm (MST)
Individual tickets are $8 and household tickets are $15; ticket prices include the film and the Zoom conversation. Purchase tickets HERE
The House on Wannsee Street is the story of generations of family secrets that are uncovered in this sweeping international story that begins with the Second World War and concludes with an emotional twenty-first-century revelation. When award-winning Argentinean filmmaker Poli Martínez Kaplun decided to dig deep into her family history, she found a shocking discovery. Searching through family albums and 8mm home movies, she unraveled a twentieth-century mystery.
March 2021
Film: La Guerra Civil Española por nosotras/Female Views of the Spanish Civil War
12 am (MST)
Available through 11:59 pm (MST) March 7
Place: All titles will be available on the Mujeres de Cine VOD platform HERE
Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque, in collaboration with Mujeres de Cine (Women of Cinema), presents the on-line film series La Guerra Civil española por nosotras (Female views of the Spanish Civil War), bringing together the views of three Spanish female directors on this conflict. The cycle comprises three full-length films: La buena nueva, by Helena Taberna, El gran vuelo, by Carolina Astudillo Muñoz, and El silencio de otros, by Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar.
Free community event
Film: Pioneras: Mujeres de Vanguardia/Pioneers: Women of the Avant-Garde, Segundo López, aventurero urbano
12 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
In Ana Mariscal’s neorealist comedy Segundo López, aventurero urbano, an honest countryman arrives in Madrid looking for work. When he befriends a street urchin, they embark on innumerable urban adventures. Mariscal, an iconic Spanish film actress, also stars in her directorial debut.
1953; Spanish with English subtitles; 80 minutes; not rated.
Free community event
Film: Pioneras: Mujeres de Vanguardia/Pioneers: Women of the Avant-Garde, La gata
12 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Co-directed by Margarita Alexandre and Rafael Torrecilla, La gata, set in in the Andalusian countryside, is the story of a love triangle playing out in the world of bullfighting. It has been described as a “beautiful tragedy,” as well as a melodrama. Actress, director, and producer Margarita Alexandre worked in film and theatre in Spain during the early days of the Franco regime, and in Cuba following the Revolution. Born in León in 1923, she died in Madrid in 2015, at the age of 93.
1956; Spanish with English subtitles; 94 minutes; not rated.
Free community event
Film: Pioneras: Mujeres de Vanguardia/Pioneers: Women of the Avant-Garde, El crimen de Cuenca
12 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Pilar Miró’s El crimen de Cuenca is an unsparing depiction of real events that took place in 1913 in the Spanish province of Cuenca. When a shepherd mysteriously disappears, his companions, believed to be responsible for his murder, confess to the crime under torture and are condemned to prison, serving 11 years of an 18-year sentence. After they are released, the man they supposedly killed turns up alive. The film was initially banned in Spain and the director brought before the military courts; when it was allowed to be shown in 1981, it became the highest-grossing Spanish film in the country up to that time.
1979; Spanish with English subtitles; 92 minutes; Rated R (18+)
Free community event
Film: Pioneras: Mujeres de Vanguardia/Pioneers: Women of the Avant-Garde, Función de noche
12 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
In Josefina Molina’s Función de noche, the actress Lola Herrera, performing nightly in Miguel Delibes’ play Cinco horas con Mario, comes to confound her own life with that of the character she plays. In the close confines of her dressing room, she and her former husband, actor Daniel Dicenta, engage in a cathartic conversation about their professional and personal lives.
1981; Spanish with English subtitles; 90 minutes; Rated PG13
Free community event
Film: Pioneras: Mujeres de Vanguardia/Pioneers: Women of the Avant-Garde, Después de… No se os puede dejar solos
12 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
At the beginning of the Transition (la Transición—the Spanish transition to democracy following the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975), a small group of filmmakers took to the streets to record the opinions of politicians and citizens regarding the country that was about to be formed. Today, this documentary by Cecilia and José Juan Bartolomé is a milestone in the history of Spanish cinema, compiling testimonies that allow us to understand the plurality of a young society as it thinks about its past and considers how to build its future.
1979-1981; Spanish with English subtitles; 90 minutes; not rated
Free community event
Pioneras: Mujeres de Vanguardia/Pioneers: Women of the Avant-Garde, Después de… Atado y bien atado
12 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
The second part of the documentary Después de…, by Cecilia and José Juan Bartolomé, features politicians, professionals, and citizens from all walks of life as they express their opinions of the changes that have befallen Spain during the years of the country’s transition to democracy following the death of Francisco Franco. The outspokenness of some of these testimonies and the sense of tension that pervades the film caused its release to be held up until late 1983. Después de… places its directors in the vanguard of social documentarians who continue to play a critical role in Spanish cinema.
1979-1981; Spanish with English subtitles; 90 minutes; not rated
Free community event
April 2021
Film: Del corto al largo (y viceversa), Lucas
12 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
In Álex Montoya’s short film Lucas, a high school boy wanting to buy a motorcycle in order to impress a girl agrees to model for a photographer he met at the gym, but finds that things are not always what they seem. Montoya’s short films, striking in their narrative efficiency, have enjoyed impressive circulation. In 2019, the director adapted Lucas into a feature film, still awaiting release as a result of the pandemic.
2013; Spanish with English subtitles; 28 minutes; not rated.
Free community event
Film: Del corto al largo (y viceversa), Asamblea
12 pm (MST)
Available for 48 hours
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE
Álex Montoya’s first feature film, an adaptation of the play La gente by Juli Disla and Jaume Pérez (who also wrote the screenplay for the film), is a comic look at the decision-making processes of assemblies formed as a result of political movements after 2011. In a last meeting before the summer, Josep wants to move forward on the approval of a plan, while respecting differing ideologies and allowing all members an opportunity to speak. The group’s attempt to reach a unanimous agreement challenges progressive notions of participation.
2019; Spanish with English subtitles; 75 minutes; not rated.
Free community event