If you're a visitor to Albuquerque for the Movies & Meaning Festival, you'll no doubt want to experience some of the local sources of beauty. The city has a vibrant art scene, combining venerable fixtures with a thriving fringe and a bounty of folk arts and crafts.

A movie is an encounter, and so is a meal. So we asked Molly Perara-Lunde, an Albuquerqian friend of ours, for an introduction to her favorite eats.

The KiMo is unlike any other place on earth. And it’s true to its name, “KiMo,” which is a combination of Tiwa words interpreted as “king of its kind.” It’s the king of theatres: a warm and animated center for a gathering of imaginative, diverse people.

If you haven’t spent much time in the American Southwest, you might think it’s an odd place to locate a festival. Why not New York or L.A. or Chicago?—why not one of the more widely known festival cities?