LA GACETA MEXICANA CONSULATE OF MEXICO ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO July - September 2014
MEXICAN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA SERIES
In collaboration with Instituto Cervantes & the National Hispanic Cultural Center, the Consulate of Mexico presents the 6th edition of the Contemporary Mexican Cinema Series, dedicated to the best contemporary independent films in Mexico. Admission to the shows is FREE, and all the films have English subtitles. Showtime is 7:00 PM in the Bank of America Theatre at the National Hispanic Cultural Center 1701 Fourth Street SW Albuquerque, NM 87102. The series will include: “La Cebra”, July 3rd 2014, starring Jorge Adrián Spíndola, Harold Torres, Leticia Huijara and Jesús Ochoa. In Mexican Revolution times, Leandro and Odón want to be “Obregonistas“. They travel north to reach this goal; riding on a zebra they found at a destroyed circus. They believe is a “gringo” horse. On the way they have several adventures: they escape from women who enslaved them; they meet General Quesada, who wants to found a new republic; they get lost in the desert, etc. When they finally find the Obregón troops, one colonel thinks they are spies of Villa, and Odón has to kill Leandro in order to prove his faithfulness.