Cine Magnifico 13th Annual Film Festival
Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque is launching the thirteenth edition of Cine Magnifico, Annual Festival of Cinema in Spanish. Over the course of its twelve previous editions, this event has been committed to promoting Spanish-language culture and audiovisual creation, and over the years it has brought visibility to New Mexico for numerous high-quality films and short films made in Spain and various Spanish-speaking countries.
The 2025 edition of the festival will be held at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque over three days. It will include a program of six feature films from countries such as Spain, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, and Portugal. See below for showtimes and dates.
November 7
Cine Magnifico Opening Film// US Premiers: Una Quinta Portuguesa
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM
7:00 pm Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025 Opening Film // US Premiers: Una Quinta Portuguesa by Avelina Prat. The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he impersonates another man as a gardener at a Portuguese country house, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner.
La desaparición de su esposa deja a Fernando, un discreto profesor de geografía, completamente desolado. Sin rumbo, se hace pasar por otro hombre como jardinero en una casa de campo portuguesa, donde entabla una inesperada amistad con el dueño.
Cast: Manolo Solo, Maria de Medeiros, Rita Cabaço, Branka Katić
2025 // 114 min. // Spain, Portugal // Drama // Spanish and Portuguese with English subtitles
Free community event
November 8
Cine Magnifico: Quizás es Cierto lo que Dicen de Nosotras
12:00 pm Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025 Quizás es Cierto lo que Dicen de Nosotras by Camilo Becerra and Sofía Gómez. Inspired by real events: Ximena, a successful psychiatrist, receives the unexpected visit of her eldest daughter, Tamara, whom she hasn’t seen in a long time. While she takes refuge at her mother’s house, an investigation is launched: Tamara’s newborn son disappeared under strange circumstances within the sect. Both the justice system and Ximena will try to uncover the fate of the missing baby.
Inspirada en hechos reales: Ximena, una exitosa psiquiatra, recibe la inesperada visita de su hija mayor, Tamara, quien estuvo aislada en una secta por mucho tiempo. Mientras se refugia en casa de su madre, comienza una investigación policial, debido a que el hijo recién nacido de Tamara, desapareció en extrañas circunstancias al interior de la secta. Tanto la justicia como Ximena intentarán descubrir cuál es el destino del bebé desaparecido.
Cast: Aline Kuppenheim, Camila Roeschmann, Julia Lübbert
2024 // 95 min. // Chile, Argentina // Drama, thriller, cults // Spanish with English subtitles
Free community event
November 8
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM
4:45 pm Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025 Culpa Cero by Valeria Bertuccelli and Mora Elizalde. Berta Muller’s life, a successful self-help writer, is shaken when, at the peak of her career, she is exposed in the media for the significance of plagiarism. Far from assuming responsibility, she will deny the accusations and try to justify herself ridiculously, even if it means exposing all her darkness.
La vida de Berta Muller, una exitosa escritora de autoayuda, se ve sacudida cuando, en el pico máximo de su carrera, es expuesta mediáticamente por la trascendencia de un plagio. Lejos de asumir su responsabilidad, ella negará las acusaciones e intentará justificarse ridículamente, aunque esto implique sacar a la luz toda su oscuridad.
Cast: Valeria Bertuccelli, Justina Bustos, Cecilia Roth, Gaia Garibaldi
2024 // 110 min. // Argentina // Comedy // Spanish with English subtitles
Free community event
November 8
Cine Magnifico: El Diablo Fuma (y guarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja),
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM
7:00 pm Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025 El Diablo Fuma (y guarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja), by Ernesto Martínez Bucio Five siblings abandoned by their parents mimic their fears with those of their schizophrenic grandmother and dissolve the barriers between the real and the imaginary to try to stay together.
Cinco hermanos abandonados por sus padres imitan sus miedos con los de su abuela esquizofrénica y disuelven las barreras entre lo real y lo imaginario para intentar permanecer juntos.
Cast: Mariapau Bravo Aviña, Rafael Nieto Martínez, Regina Alejandra, Laura Uribe Rojas, Donovan Said, Carmen Ramos, Micaela Gramajo and Bernardo Gamboa
2025 // 97 min. // Mexico // Dramatic comedy, supernatural // Spanish with English subtitles
Free community event
November 9
Cine Magnifico: Una Sombra Oscilante
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM
4:15 pm Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025 Una Sombra Oscilante by Celeste Rojas Múgica He develops and imagines a world inside a darkroom. His daughter weaves a dialogue inside it: about latent, invented images. About the ways of resisting and navigating the darkness.
“Una sombra oscilante” (An Oscillating Shadow) explores how the intimate and political weight of images can open spaces to reflect upon them as acts of resistance, either because they are made despite the horror of their context or because they offer an imaginary vanishing point that might just set us free.
Él revela e imagina un mundo en el interior de un cuarto oscuro. Su hija hace de eso un juego: sobre imágenes latentes, posibles, inventadas. Sobre las formas de resistir y transitar la oscuridad.
“Una sombra oscilante” explora el peso íntimo y político de las imágenes para abrir un espacio donde pensarlas como acto de resistencia, ya sea porque se hacen pese al horror, o porque existen para ofrecer un punto de fuga imaginario que quizás nos libre de este.
2024 // 77 min. // Chile, Argentina, France // Documentary // Spanish with English subtitles
Free community event
November 9
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM
6:00 pm Instituto Cervantes presents Cine Magnifico 2025 Matryoshka by Jorge Forero. Ana travels for a few days to her grandmother’s house in the country. Her mother is also present, but the relationship is visible awkward as she feels she was neglected.
Ana’s secret abortion due to an unplanned pregnancy moves her prospect of becoming a mother and makes her understand her own mother’s life, on this weekend to heal from burdens and secrets carried for generations.
Ana viaja unos días a casa de su abuela en el campo. Su madre también está presente, pero la relación se vuelve visiblemente incómoda, pues se siente abandonada.
El aborto secreto de Ana, debido a un embarazo no planeado, renueva su perspectiva de ser madre y la ayuda a comprender la vida de su propia madre. En este fin de semana, busca sanar de las cargas y los secretos que ha arrastrado durante generaciones.
Cast: Vicky Hernández, Ana María Sánchez, Alma Rodríguez
2024 // 87 min. // Colombia // Drama, motherhood // Spanish with English subtitles
Free community event