¡Cine Magnífico!

2014 ¡Cine Magnífico!

The Films Spanish Affair/8 Apellidos Vascos (2014, SPAIN) (US Premiere) Friday, 7:00PM

September

12th,

98 min. Comedy Director: Emilio Martinez-Lazaro Writers: Borja Cobeaga & Diego San José Starring: Dani Rovira, Clara Lago, Carmen Machi Language: Spanish with English subtitles View trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coevNsXyfXQ

Rafa has never left his native Seville, Andalusia, until he meets a Basque woman named Amaia who resists his seduction techniques. Against his friends' advice, he follows her to Euskadi after she stays the night in his house and forgets her purse. A series of misunderstandings force Rafa to impersonate a full-blooded Basque with eight surnames, and get more and more entangled in that character, to get his way. By April 2014, Spanish Affair became the highest grossing Spanish film in Spain in history.

Rafa un sevillano que nunca ha salido de Andalucía, abandonar su tierra natal para seguir a Amaia, una joven vasca que a diferencia de otras mujeres que ha conocido se resiste a sus técnicas de seducción. Para ello, y en contra de los consejos de sus amigos, decide viajar al pueblo de su pretendida, en el corazón abertzale del País Vasco. Una serie de circunstancias llevarán al joven sevillano a tener que hacerse pasar por un auténtico vasco con ocho apellidos, e ir enredándose cada vez más en el personaje para lograr sus propósitos. En abril de 2014, 8 apellidos vascos ha sido la película española más vista y con mayor índice de ganancia en toda la historia de España.

OPENING NIGHT FIESTA! Starting at 5:30pm, there will be a pre-screening party with tapas

and a cash bar! Co-presented by:

The Lock Charmer/El Cerrajero (2013, ARGENTINA) Friday, September 12th, 9:15PM 77 min. Drama Director & Writer: Natalia Smirnoff Starring: Esteban Lamothe, Erica Rivas, Yosiria Huaripata Language: Spanish with English subtitles View trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52DEaC8vtfM

Sebastián is a 33-year-old locksmith who has never really believed in long term commitments. Not even with Mónica, his most steady relationship which has only lasted five months.When she reveals she is pregnant and that he is the likely father, Sebastián’s world takes an unexpected turn: he begins to have strange visions about his clients whenever he’s working on their doors. Some would call it a gift, but for Sebastián it feels more like a curse. Together with the help of Daisy, an unlikely assistant who very much wants to believe in his gift, he reluctantly sets out to use his talent for his own good.

El Cerrajero sigue la historia del dueño de una cerrajería de urgencias. Mujeriego empedernido, Sebastián se entera de que una de las chicas con la que sale está embarazada y él podría ser el padre. Ante eso intentará de que interrumpa el asunto, pero ella lo exime y decide tomarse su tiempo. Sin embargo, cada vez que vaya a hacer uno de sus trabajos experimenta percepciones de conductas, secretos y emociones de sus clientes, que lo invaden y no puede evitar revelar en voz alta frente a la puerta trabada de turno.

Official selection 2014 Sundance Film Festival Co-presented by Bernalillo County

Anina Saturday, September

(2013, 13th,

URUGUAY)

11:00am

78 min. Animation/Comedy Director & Writer: Alfredo Soderguit Starring: Federica Lacaño, María Mendive, César Troncoso Language: Spanish with English subtitles View trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rps6KtO3jFk

Ten-year-old Anina Yatay Salas does not like her name; each part is a palindrome, which means it reads the same way forwards and backwards. Anina’s schoolmates love to tease her about it until Anina can’t take it anymore and gets into a fight during recess with her arch-enemy. Their punishment is rather unusual: they are each given a sealed envelope by the principal and told not to open it until next week. The mystery will eat at Anina and get her into trouble. Drawn in a penciland-watercolor style, the whole family will fall in love with Anina and with this delightful film.

A Anina Yatay Salas, de diez años, no le gusta su nombre; cada parte es una capicúa, es decir, se lee igual de izquierda a derecha y viceversa. A sus compañeros de clase les encanta mortificarla hasta que Anina no aguanta más y se enfrasca en una pelea durante el recreo con su archienemiga. Su castigo es bastante inusual: la directora les entrega a cada una un sobre sellado y les dice que no lo abran hasta la próxima semana. El misterio se comerá a Anina por dentro y la meterá en problemas. Toda la familia se enamorará de Anina y de esta encantadora película dibujada con lápiz y acuarela.

Anina won the Audience Award at the 2013 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema.

School Days/Días de clase (2013, NICARAGUA) Saturday,

September

53 min.

Director & Writer: Language: Spanish with English subtitles View trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Laxr0eF9hjo

13th, Florence

2:00pm Documentary Jaugey

During 2012 school year, Camila Film’s team set up his camera on a rural multigrade school at the foot of the volcano “ Cerro Negro” in Nicaragua. The School "The Urroces" from Lechecuagos region of the department of León, is part of Fe y Alegría Rural Education Core, in Nicaragua. During a year we share the daily lives of pupils and teachers and we accompanied at the pace of lessons, seasons, homework and plantings.

Durante el año lectivo 2012, el equipo de Camila Films instaló su cámara en una escuela rural multigrado al pié del volcán Cerro Negro, en Nicaragua. La Escuela “Los Urroces”, comarca de Lechecuagos, departamento de León, es parte de núcleo de Educación Rural Fe y Alegría, Nicaragua. Durante un año compartimos el cotidiano de los alumnos y sus maestras y acompañamos a la comunidad al ritmo de las lecciones, de las estaciones, de las tareas y de las siembras.

Co-presented by Latin American & Iberian Institute

The Golden Dream/La Jaula del Oro (2013, MEXICO/SPAIN) Saturday, September 13th, 4:30pm 108 min. Drama Director & Writer: Diego Quemada-Diez Starring: Brandon López, Rodolfo Dominguez, Karen Martínez Language: Spanish with View trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBBNmC2JWGU

English

subtitles

This film tells the story of three teenagers who leave their village in Guatemala to travel north through Mexico, crossing the border to the United States. This drama explores the many obstacles facing them along their journey and the difficult realities of immigration.

At every stage, these vulnerable teenagers face danger and almost certain death from predatory criminals to whom their young lives are worth less than zero.

This film has received a total of 57 awards, including 9 Ariel awards by the Mexican Film Academy: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best First Feature, Best Actor, Best Upcoming Actor, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Music. Official selection of 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

New Mexico Short Films (USA) Sunday, September 14th, 5:00PM English Language The Instituto Cervantes and the National Hispanic Cultural Center are proud to showcase some of the best collection of short films, written, directed and produced in New Mexico.

Support the Film industry in New Mexico with this FREE ticketed event. Donations are welcome.

El Instituto Cervantes y el Centro Nacional Hispano de Cultura tienen el privilegio de presentar una serie de los mejores cortos escritos, dirigidos y producidos en Nuevo México.

Muestre su apoyo a la cinematografía nueva mexicana reservando su asistencia a este evento gratuito. Donación opcional.

My Straight Son/Azul y No tan rosa (2012, Venezuela) Saturday, September 13th, 8:00pm 114 min.

Director & Writer: Starring: Guillermo García, Ignacio Montes, Hilda Abrahamz Language: Spanish with English subtitles View trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qEUcsPDHMU

Miguel

Drama/LGBT Ferrari

This is the story of Diego, a young and successful photographer that lives in the glamorous world of fashion, shallowness and excess. A tragic accident turns his world around; his partner is now in a coma. Unexpectedly, Diego must take care of his son, Armando. Now, both of them have to adapt to each other; Armando to the unknown, homosexual world of his father, and Diego to the closed attitude of his teenage son.

Diego, un fotógrafo exitoso de Caracas, decide formalizar su relación con Fabrizio yéndose a vivir con él, pero, de manera inesperada, se ve obligado a hacerse cargo de su hijo Armando, que vive en España y al que no ha visto desde hace años. El chico llega con una maleta cargada de reproches, de modo que a Diego no le resultará fácil restablecer la relación afectiva con él. En tales circunstancias, un grupo de radicales homófobos le propinan a Fabrizio una brutal paliza que lo deja en coma.

My Straight Son / Azul y No Tan Rosa won the 2014 Goya award for Best Iberoamerican Film.

Co presented by

Bad Hair / Pelo Malo (2013, VENEZUELA) Sunday, September 14th, 2:00PM 93 min. Drama Director & Writer: Mariana Rondón Starring: Samuel Lange, Samantha Castillo Language: Spanish with View trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KK9he-hTuE

English

subtitles

Junior is nine years old and has stubbornly curly hair, or "BAD HAIR". He wants to have it straightened for his yearbook picture, like a fashionable pop singer with long, ironed hair. This puts him at odds with his mother Marta. The more Junior tries to look beautiful and make his mother love him, the more she rejects him. He will find himself cornered, facing a painful decision.

Junior tiene nueve años y el "PELO MALO". Se lo quiere alisar para la foto de la escuela y así verse como un cantante de moda. Esta situación generará un enfrentamiento con su madre Marta.

Mientras Junior busca verse bello para que su mamá lo quiera, ella lo rechaza cada vez más.

Finalmente Junior se verá obligado a tomar una dolorosa decisión.

Bad Hair has won 11 international film festival awards, including Best Film at the Havana Film Festival, and Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Film at the Mar del Plata Film Festival in 2013.

We are the Nobles/Nosotros los Nobles (2013, Mexico) Sunday, September 14th, 7:00pm 108 min. Comedy Director: Gary Alazraki Writers: Adrian Zurita, Patricio Saiz, Gary Alazraki Starring: Gonzalo Vega, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Karla Souza, Juan Pablo Gil Language: Spanish with English View trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChlQQb49Xf0

subtitles

When Germán Noble, a manipulative rich entrepreneur realizes that his children are lazy and are throwing their lives away, he decides to teach them a lesson by staging a financial scandal. His children are left without cars, phones and credit cards and escape to an old house in the poor side of town. They are forced to change their last name, stop contacting their friends and do the unthinkable: get jobs.

Cuando Germán Noble, un manipulador y poderoso empresario se da cuenta que los perezosos de sus hijos están desperdiciando sus vidas, decide fingir la quiebra de su empresa para darles una lección. Les hace creer que todas sus propiedades fueron embargadas: los deja sin coches, celulares y sin tarjetas de crédito. Los lleva a vivir a un vecindario pobre, cambiarse de apellido y cortar contacto con todos sus amigos para salir adelante haciendo algo imaginable: trabajar.