2023 OFFICIAL SELECTION

We are excited to welcome you back to a full in-cinema festival experience from Sept 7-17.

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OPENING NIGHT FILM

LOVE AND MATHEMATICS

CLOSING NIGHT FILM

CHILE ’76

Nominated for the Caméra d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival.

Lead actress Aline Küppenheim in attendance

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

20th Anniversary Screening of MACHUCA

Aline Küppenheim in attendance

  • MACHUCA
    Dir. Manuela Martelli (Chile, 2004)

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

RULE 34 | REGRA 34

Sol Miranda in attendance (we hope!!)

Winner of the Golden Leopard at the 75th Locarno International Film Festival.

NEW DIRECTORS COMPETITION

Discover the six Latin American films that will compete for the prize of Best New Director.
A Youth Jury from Canada and Latin America will award $2,500 to the winning director.

SPOTLIGHT ON CUBA: Sara Gómez

We are thrilled to present a selection of the short films of Sara Gómez, one of the most inventive filmmakers of 1960s post-revolutionary Cuban cinema.

With an introduction by Susan Lord, professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University and co-editor of The Cinema of Sara Gómez: Reframing Revolution.

SPOTLIGHT ON CUBA

RETROSPECTIVE: PAVEL GIROUD

Pavel Giroud in attendance

INTERNATIONAL HITS

A selection of films that have made a big impact on the festival circuit.

¡ASÍ SUENA! MUSIC IN FILM

PLAYING LECUONA
Dir: Pavel Giroud (Cuba)

FIREFLY PROJECT

FIREFLY PROJECT
Live visual poetry and sound performance by composer edgardo moreno

NOCHE MEXICANA

FILMS FROM TURTLE ISLAND AND BEYOND

Made by us: Rethinking Indigenous Films

Curated by Akira Iahtail & Masa’n Selene Galindo

  • A BODY OVER THE SEA
    Un cuerpo sobre el mar
    Gabriel Gabriel Zhiminaicela & Christian Paúl Espinoza
    (Cañari/Ecuador)
  • ATI’T
    Tirza Yanira Ixmucané Saloj Oroxom
    (Mayan K’iche/Guatemala)
  • CANOE LIFE
    Vida canoera
    Dir. Ruth Gandara
    (Guaraní/Argentina)
  • DRY HAND
    Mano seca
    Dir. Isis Catrin
    (Mapuche/Chile)
  • ÁNIMA
    Dir. Manuel Mateo Gómez
    (Nasa/Cuba)
  • MANITUSHISS
    Virus
    Dir. Réal Junior Leblanc
    (Innu – Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam/Quebec)
  • Məca
    Dir. Ritchie Hemphill & Ryan Haché
    (Gwa’sala-’Nakwaxda’xw/Canada)
  • Titration: Radioactive Waste, Princeton, and the Navajo Nation
    Dir. michael q ceballos
    (Navajo Nation/USA)

FEATURES

  • MY NON-PLACE
    Dir. Isis Alejandra Ahumada Monroy
    (Mazateca and Zapoteca community/Mexico)
  • UTAMA
    Dir. Alejandro Loayza Grisi (Quechua/Bolivia)

SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION

Program 1

Program 2

Curated by Dani Rodríguez Chevalier & Ana Tonso

  • All my scars vanish in the wind 
    Dir. María Angélica Restrepo & Carlos David Velandia (Colombia)
  • Gloria
    Dir. Daniela Briceño Bello, Diego Diego Diego, Blanca Castellar (Colombia)
  • Eclipsis
     Dir. Tania Hernández Velasco (Mexico)
  • Recuérdame fluir
    Dir. Morena Barra (Guatemala)
  • Esto, que llevo dentro
    Dir. Enrique Pedraza-Botero
    (Colombia/USA)
  • El Torito, a freedom dance
     Dir. Roberto Salazar (Mexico)
  • The bathroom is where moths die
    Dir. Natalia Andrea Mejías & Fernanda Lagomarsino (Chile)
  • When the Night Comes
    Dir. Feguenson Hermogéne
    (Cuba)
  • That Camera of Yours
     Dir. Juan Restrepo
    (Colombia)
  • Madre Nuestra 
     Dir. David Paredes (Cuba/Colombia)
  • La mutuante
     Dir. Carla Scolari & Javier Rossanigo (Argentina)
  • The Last Piece – Essay 1
     Dir. Silvana Alarcón (Peru)
  • The Last Magic Trick
     Dir. Dario Celestinos (Mexico)
  • Maura Alejandro
    Dir. Gabriel Páez (Ecuador)
  • Who’s he?
    Dir. Víctor Augusto Mendívil (Peru)

QUEER PIX
Shorts Program: The Ties That Bind

Curated by Kathleen Mullen & Robert Rios

  • I KILLED LUCCA
    Dir. Ana Moreno Hernández
    (Mexico)
  • CHAAC AND YUM
     Dir. Roberto Fatal
    (USA)
  • LOW TIDE
    bajamar
    Dir. Juana Castro
    (Colombia)
  • WISHFUL THINKING
    Dir. Rodrigo Carvalhedo
    (USA)
  • LOVESICK
    Mal de amores
     Dir. Fiorella Vescovi Garcia (USA)

LGBTQ2S+ Features

CANADA LOOKS SOUTH

CARLOS FERRAND IN ATTENDANCE

CANADA LOOKS SOUTH: Features

GERMAN GUTIERREZ IN ATTENDANCE

LATIN-CANADIAN SHORTS
(screening before features)

  • ANYTHING, ALWAYS
    Dir. Isabella Dagnino
  • CHICHO
    Dir. Arlen Aguayo Stewart
  • CLOUDS
    Dir. Dora Prieto
  • NOBODY CONFESSED I WAS HAUNTED
    Dir. Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier
  • PACHO’S VISUAL ARCHIVE
    Dir. Blanca Marcela López

  • PICIFORMES
    Dir. Pablo García García
  • ROCA MORENA
    Dir. Siam Obregón & Kyana Lyne
  • WHAT MOVES THE WAVE?
    Dir. Ana Tonso

Shorts Program:

MIGRATION METAMORPHOSES

  • TIME IN BETWEEN PILLS
    El tiempo en las pastillas
    Dir. Carol Rodríguez Allende
    (Chile/Canada)


  • AZÚCAR
    Dir. Joshua Gunn
    (Honduras/USA)
  • WANDERING
    Dir. Karla Meza
    (Mexico/Quebec)
  • SATURDAY FUEGO DIABLO
    Dir. Anita Abbasi
    (El Salvador/Quebec)
  • LA TUMBA MAMBI
    Dir. Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier & DJ Jigüe
    (Cuba/Canada)

View the calendar schedule!