Latest Past Events

Spanish Republican Exile / Intimate Portraits: Las Sinsombrero (2015)

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York

Las Sinsombrero (2015) Documentary , Dir. Tània Balló, Manuel Jiménez Núñez, Serrana Torres Runtime: 56 minutes In Spanish, with English subtitles. US premiere Las Sinsombrero recovers the legacy and memory of a group of women who lived during the first decades of the 20th Century, demonstrating how their ideas, work, and actions were and are fundamental for understanding the culture…

Film Screening: El verdugo (The Executioner)

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York

Luis Garcia Berlanga’s black-comedy masterpiece of 1963, _El verdugo_ critiques Franco-era values through a macabre farce about an undertaker who marries an executioner’s daughter and reluctantly takes over her father’s job. Influenced by Italian neorealism, this caustic film depicts what Berlanga called “the invisible traps that society sets up for us”. A personal attack on both capital punishment and Fascist Spain, it…