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SUMMARY:The Blue Trail
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Gabriel Mascaro\nBrazil\n2025 \n”A magical escape from exile to freedom” The Hollywood Reporter \nTereza\, 77\, has lived her whole life in a small industrialised town in the Amazon\, until one day she receives an official government order to relocate to a senior housing colony. The colony is an isolated area where the elderly are brought to “enjoy” their final years\, freeing the younger generation to focus fully on productivity and growth. Tereza refuses to accept this imposed fate. Instead\, she embarks on a transformative journey through the rivers and tributaries of the Amazon to fulfil one last wish before her freedom is taken away – a decision that will change her destiny forever. \nWorld Premiere\, Berlin Film Festival 2025
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/the-blue-trail/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Highlights,International Hits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260914T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260914T160000
DTSTAMP:20260817T165057Z
CREATED:20260717T173150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T165057Z
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SUMMARY:Comparsa
DESCRIPTION:Dirs\, Vickie Curtis and Doug Anderson\nGuatemala\, USA\n2025 \nFrom the shadows of a Guatemalan barrio scared into silence\, sisters Lesli and Lupe lead a luminous rebellion—unleashing joy\, art\, and radical truth in an epic fight for survival. \n\nComparsa fully immerses audiences in the intense world of Ciudad Peronia\, Guatemala\, where sisters Lesli and Lupe use art to inspire local youth and heal deep wounds. After 41 girls are killed in a State-run “Safe Home” and the government refuses to act\, the sisters respond with a community comparsa—an exuberant street performance featuring towering puppets\, fi re-breathing stilt walkers\, and thundering drums. With brave vulnerability\, they expose a system that permits and commits violence against women\, and they open up about surviving violence in their own home.\n\nTheir youth movement takes to the streets\, confronting corruption and reclaiming public space for women and girls. Rooting their eff orts in joy and community care\, they fi nd healing along the way. Built on a 17-year relationship between the subjects and the fi lm team\, Comparsa off ers a stirring portrait of sisterhood\, peacebuilding\, and the transformational power of art. \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/comparsa/
LOCATION:Cineworks\, 1131 Howe St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:New Directors Competition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260914T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260914T175000
DTSTAMP:20260817T214138Z
CREATED:20260717T150028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T214138Z
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SUMMARY:Belén
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Dolores Fonzi\nArgentina\n2025 \nBELEN is the second feature film directed by renowned actress Dolores Fonzi. BELEN had its world premiere at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and was selected as Argentina’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards. \nTucumán\, Argentina\, 2014; a young woman is admitted to a hospital with severe abdominal pain\, unaware she is pregnant. She wakes up handcuffed to a gurney and surrounded by police. She is accused of having self-induced an abortion and\, after two years in detention\, is sentenced to eight years in prison for aggravated homicide. A female lawyer from Tucumán will fight for her freedom with the support of thousands of women and organizations\, who unite to change the course of history. \nContent warning: miscarriage/abortion\n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/belen-2/
LOCATION:Cineworks\, 1131 Howe St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:¡Activismo!
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260914T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260914T194500
DTSTAMP:20260803T194512Z
CREATED:20260717T194017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260803T194512Z
UID:34267-1789409700-1789415100@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:Local Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:A program of short films by Latin-Canadian filmmakers\, where the views and stories of filmmakers who decided to migrate to this country intermingle. \nExplore this short program here
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/local-perspectives/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Canada Looks South
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260914T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260914T223000
DTSTAMP:20260817T165852Z
CREATED:20260717T150050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T165852Z
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SUMMARY:Elder Son
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Cecilia Kang\nArgentina\n2025 \nLila\, a young Korean-Argentinean girl\, navigates the contradictions of her identity and tries to find her place in the world. Her father Antonio arrives in Latin America 18 years earlier and decides to bet everything on the promise of a young immigrant’s dream. A family epic that seeks to return to the past in order to reinvent the present. \nWorld Premiere\, Locarno Film Festival 2025 \n  \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/elder-son/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Highlights,New Directors Competition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260915T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260915T153500
DTSTAMP:20260817T170140Z
CREATED:20260717T150055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T170140Z
UID:33698-1789480800-1789486500@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:The Reserve
DESCRIPTION:Dir\, Pablo Pérez Lombardini \nMexico\n2025 \nWhile most of the inhabitants of Monte Virgen struggle to collect their coffee\, the forest ranger Julia discovers that a group of illegal loggers is destroying the Reserve. Determined to stop them\, she looks for the support of a community that will soon turn its back on her. Alone on her quest\, she will gradually lose the things she loves most except one thing: her dignity. \nWinner\, Best Mexican Film.\nMorelia Film Festival 2025 \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/the-reserve/
LOCATION:Cineworks\, 1131 Howe St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:¡Activismo!,New Directors Competition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260915T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260915T170000
DTSTAMP:20260813T171032Z
CREATED:20260717T150039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260813T171032Z
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SUMMARY:Copper
DESCRIPTION:  \n”Nicolás Pereda is a central figure in a diverse group of Latin-American directors whose innovative approaches to narrative filmmaking over the last 15 years have together defined one of the most exciting trends in world cinema”. \nComing across a body on his way to work in a remote mining town\, Lázaro is regarded with suspicion by the members of his community\, and even of his own family. When lung disease forces him to take time off from the mine\, doubts regarding his true state of health intensify\, stoking rumours about his potential involvement in the crime. Lázaro finds comfort in his aunt\, only a few years older than himself and with whom he develops an increasingly more ambiguous relationship. \n \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/copper/
LOCATION:Cineworks\, 1131 Howe St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Vanguardias
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260915T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260915T193000
DTSTAMP:20260731T191241Z
CREATED:20260717T150005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260731T191241Z
UID:33706-1789495200-1789500600@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
DESCRIPTION:1982. Eleven-year-old Lidia lives with her beloved queer family in a desert mining town in northern Chile. As an unknown and deadly disease begins to spread\, legend has it that it is transmitted between two men\, through a simple glance\, when they fall in love. While people are accusing her family\, Lidia must find out whether this myth is real or not.
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/the-mysterious-gaze-of-the-flamingo-2/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Queer Pix: Features + Shorts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260915T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260915T221000
DTSTAMP:20260818T150104Z
CREATED:20260717T150033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T150104Z
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SUMMARY:La Salsa Vive
DESCRIPTION:Dir Juan Carvajal\nColombia\, USA\n2025 \n”A brave\, sensitive\, and necessary attempt to reclaim the living memory of salsa……A sincere and devoted love letter to a music that pulses through the veins of millions”. André Didyme-Dôme ROLLING STONE \nA vibrant journey through a genre born of Afro-Cuban rhythms—mambo\, guaracha\, guaguancó—fused with the drive of New York jazz\, and one that found its second homeland in Cali\, Colombia. With historical rigor\, the film traces the musical voyage back and forth between Havana\, New York\, and Cali\, showing how salsa became a shared language across cultures. It then dives into daily life in Cali\, portraying dancers\, collectors\, young enthusiasts\, and veteran masters who keep the tradition alive in cabarets\, competitions\, and on the streets. Featuring testimonies from icons such as Rubén Blades\, Henry Fiol\, and Willie Rosario\, it celebrates the popular resilience of a genre that remains identity\, passion\, and community. \nTICKETS: \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/la-salsa-vive/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:¡Así Suena! Music Films,Highlights
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260916T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260916T153000
DTSTAMP:20260817T160541Z
CREATED:20260717T150033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T160541Z
UID:34132-1789567200-1789572600@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:Light Memories
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Misha Vallejo\nEcuador\n2024 \nMisha\, a documentary photographer\, uses his grandfather’s camera to recreate a family album\, bridging the gap to a man he never met. Exploring absent father figures\, he reclaims spaces once denied to his family. Through his lens\, secrets and violence surface\, yet memory’s fluidity offers a chance for redemption. \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/light-memories/
LOCATION:Cineworks\, 1131 Howe St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:New Directors Competition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260916T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260916T170000
DTSTAMP:20260818T212345Z
CREATED:20260725T022535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T212345Z
UID:34479-1789574400-1789578000@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:The Blue Trail
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Gabriel Mascaro\nBrazil\n2025 \n”A magical escape from exile to freedom” Hollywood Reporter \nTereza\, 77\, has lived her whole life in a small industrialised town in the Amazon\, until one day she receives an official government order to relocate to a senior housing colony. The colony is an isolated area where the elderly are brought to “enjoy” their final years\, freeing the younger generation to focus fully on productivity and growth. Tereza refuses to accept this imposed fate. Instead\, she embarks on a transformative journey through the rivers and tributaries of the Amazon to fulfil one last wish before her freedom is taken away – a decision that will change her destiny forever. \nWorld Premiere\, Berlin Film Festival 2025 \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/the-blue-trail-2/
LOCATION:Cineworks\, 1131 Howe St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260916T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260916T193000
DTSTAMP:20260731T190332Z
CREATED:20260717T150058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260731T190332Z
UID:33835-1789581600-1789587000@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:Emerging Experimental
DESCRIPTION:The eclectic selection of films in this program highlights a number of exciting local filmmakers unafraid to portray modern life in inventive and innovative ways. Siblings reconnect in dreamy old playgrounds\, digital surveillance and philosophical inquiry collide\, a sleepless night at home becomes an explorative site of border and water politics. Across approaches and textures\, these works transform everyday spaces into places of uncertain intimacy and discovery. \nExplore this short program here
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/emerging-experimental/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Canada Looks South
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260916T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260916T220000
DTSTAMP:20260818T151649Z
CREATED:20260717T150012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T151649Z
UID:33376-1789590600-1789596000@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:PARA VIVIR: The Implacable Times of Pablo Milanés
DESCRIPTION:Dir\, Fabien Pisani\nCuba\, Mexico\n2025 \nA deeply personal portrait of Cuban music icon Pablo Milanés\, captured in self-imposed exile during his final years. \nMilanés\, co-founder of the Nueva Trova movement with Silvio Rodríguez\, was a major voice in Cuba’s revolutionary cultural movement. This film\, directed by his adopted son Fabien Pisani\, combines interviews with musical luminaries such as Serrat\, Chico Buarque\, Harry Belafonte and Fito Páez\, alongside intimate moments of Milanés in his final years\, looking frail and reflecting on the fading Cuban Utopia. It’s a striking cinematic portrait of the artist. As memories of the past surface\, so does the broad disillusionment of the singer and his peers\, a generation of artists who were once devoted to the Revolution but who now question its legacy. \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/para-vivir-the-implacable-times-of-pablo-milanes/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:¡Así Suena! Music Films
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260917T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260917T152000
DTSTAMP:20260817T171731Z
CREATED:20260717T150043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T171731Z
UID:33731-1789653600-1789658400@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:Chronicle of a City
DESCRIPTION:Dir\, Nadine Gomez\nQuebec\, Mexico\n2025\nFilmmaker in attendance! \nA patchwork of millions of lives\, urban spaces are not only streets and concrete. They are where our dreams and deepest worries unfold. Chronicle of a City drifts and strolls through time and chance encounters\, moving between fantasy and reality\, echoing the intimate and ghostly voices of our metropolises\, reminding us that we inhabit The City as much as it inhabits us. This roaming essay is a visual and sonic meditation that invites us to see urban life as a web of sensations that move through us and draw us closer to one another\, even in the midst of solitude. \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/chronicle-of-a-city/
LOCATION:Cineworks\, 1131 Howe St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Vanguardias
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260917T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260917T170000
DTSTAMP:20260731T190625Z
CREATED:20260717T150037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260731T190625Z
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SUMMARY:What Lurks Under the Veil
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to honour our decisions\, and what must we leave behind to move forward? In this program\, we encounter characters who confront the darkness of their desires and contradictions\, situations that push them to their limits and challenge their lives as they know them. Through animation\, horror\, video essay\, and docufiction\, the body becomes a contested territory and what we keep silent emerges from the pores of each story. The silhouette of the right choice blurs in a world plagued by injustice and inequality. \nExplore this short program here
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/what-lurks-under-the-veil/
LOCATION:Cineworks\, 1131 Howe St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Program2,Shorts in Competition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260917T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260917T200500
DTSTAMP:20260817T172059Z
CREATED:20260717T150012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T172059Z
UID:33690-1789668000-1789675500@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:A Poet
DESCRIPTION:Dir\, Simón Mesa Soto\nColombia\n2025 \nSince its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival 2025\, A POET has traveled the world receiving awards\, but above all\, applause and laughter. A gem of Colombian cinema\, prepare for an unforgettable journey to a place you never imagined: the poetry circle of Medellín. \nÓscar Restrepo\, the poet of the title\, has been incapable of measuring up to his promising first steps in literature\, and gets by as he can while caring for his mother. Óscar finds a kindred spirit in his student Yurlady\, a young woman whom he sees as a diamond in the rough of poetry. \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/a-poet/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Cinema & Literature,Highlights,International Hits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260917T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260917T223000
DTSTAMP:20260731T184955Z
CREATED:20260717T150039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260731T184955Z
UID:33991-1789677000-1789684200@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:In Her Place
DESCRIPTION:Chile\, 1955. When the popular writer María Carolina Geel kills her lover\, the case captivates Mercedes\, the shy secretary of the judge in charge of the case. After visiting the writer’s apartment\, Mercedes begins to question her life\, identity\, and the role of women in society as she finds an oasis of freedom in that home.
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/in-her-place-2/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Cinema & Literature
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260918T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260918T153000
DTSTAMP:20260817T165720Z
CREATED:20260717T150058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T165720Z
UID:33714-1789740000-1789745400@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:Lovers in the Sky
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Fermin de la Serna\nPeru\, Argentina\n2025 \nLovers in the Sky explores the stories of Cristina and La Bonita\, two trans cooks who have spent decades working aboard cargo ships that tirelessly navigate the rivers of the Peruvian Amazon. Facing personal and social pressures\, both women journey through and reinvent themselves within the territory of post-identity.\nCristina seeks to fulfill a promise she made to her late mother\, while La Bonita is driven by her fear of burning forever in hell. \n\n\nWorld Premiere: 65th Krakow Film Festival 2025 \n\n\n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/lovers-in-the-sky/
LOCATION:Cineworks\, 1131 Howe St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:New Directors Competition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260918T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260918T173000
DTSTAMP:20260731T185621Z
CREATED:20260717T150050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260731T185621Z
UID:33737-1789747200-1789752600@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:Memories of Underdevelopment
DESCRIPTION:Memories of the Underdevelopment tells the story of Sergio\, an upper-class intellectual who – a year after the Castro-led revolution – decides not to leave the country\, even though his parents and estranged wife have escaped to Miami. Alienated from the major socio-political upheaval that is transforming the reality that surrounds him\, Sergio is a misfit\, caught between a past he half-heartedly attempts to maintain\, and the inevitable changes he cannot or will not embrace. His only income is the compensation he receives following the nationalization of his property. Unable to finish the novel he’s writing\, Sergio spends his time chasing women\, observing the outside world and reflecting on his own life\, trying to understand what is happening to his country and himself.
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/memories-of-underdevelopment/
LOCATION:Cineworks\, 1131 Howe St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Classics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260918T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260918T170000
DTSTAMP:20260731T190150Z
CREATED:20260717T150015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260731T190150Z
UID:33551-1789748100-1789750800@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:Diary of a Season
DESCRIPTION:To many\, one of the most shocking parts of moving to Canada is the wildly wide range between seasons: the scorching summers\, the showering autumns\, the freezing winters\, the flowering springs. Through a seasonal frame\, the films in this program explore life in Canada in a variety of forms – love\, distance\, depression\, migration by way of fiction\, documentary\, and animation. Together\, they shape a diary of fragmented entries that addresses a life in emotional and climatological transition. \nExplore this short program here
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/cls-diary-of-a-season/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Canada Looks South
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260918T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260918T193000
DTSTAMP:20260817T172745Z
CREATED:20260717T150022Z
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SUMMARY:Newborn
DESCRIPTION:When their first baby is born with both female and male features\, a young couple faces a huge dilemma: while he thinks they should assign a sex surgically to their child as doctors advise\, she gets to know other intersex people and listens to their experiences\, starting to believe that they should let their baby’s body as it is. Their differences go stronger and a decision has to be made\, the most difficult of their life. \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/newborn/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Spotlight Mayra Hermosillo
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260918T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260918T220000
DTSTAMP:20260817T173529Z
CREATED:20260717T173151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T173529Z
UID:33573-1789763400-1789768800@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:Our Body is an Expanding Star
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Semillites Hernández Velasco\, Tania Hernandez Velasco\nMexico\n2025 \n”There is no cinema more challenging than that which advocates for taking responsibility for our own bodies… in this sense\, Our Body Is an Expanding Star\, is emblematic.”\nErnesto Diezmartínez\, Letras Libres \nSemillites and Tania\, two queer siblings bound by a powerful friendship\, journey through the brown terrain of their own bodies – lands they once rejected. They traverse landscapes of skin\, dreams and viscera\, crossing into places that pulse with their ancestors’ memory and\, along the way\, encounter a constellation of flowers\, grasshoppers and fossils. Through collage\, animation\, manifesto\, dance and intimacy\, the film moves across scales of body and territory\, reimagining identity beyond Mexico’s colonial narratives. \n\nWorld Premiere\, IDFA Amsterdam 2025\nWinner\, Best Film\, Guanajuato Film Festival 2026\n\n  \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/our-body-is-an-expanding-star/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Highlights,Queer Pix: Features + Shorts,Vanguardias
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260919T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260919T153000
DTSTAMP:20260817T172441Z
CREATED:20260717T150014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T172441Z
UID:33374-1789826400-1789831800@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:Fait Vivir
DESCRIPTION:In a lost town in the tropics\, a ruler banned dances\, songs and celebrations. This is how Makondo starts\, a performance created by the GKO Orchestra\, a band of musicians\, dancers and circus actors from different parts of the world. Fait vivir recounts\, through Manuk\, a five-year-old boy\, the legend of this ingenious and unusual group. His imaginative and poetic gaze intertwines the ‘andariego’ record of these artists through different Colombian towns and cities with the “staging” of their show. Likewise\, the fantasy of our narrator allows us to get to know the daily life of its creators and the deep dream that feeds this project that invites freedom and movement.\nScreening followed by a Q&A with director Oscar Ruiz Navia. \nTICKETS: \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/fait-vivir/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:¡Así Suena! Music Films,Highlights,Spotlight on Oscar Ruiz Navia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260919T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260919T180500
DTSTAMP:20260817T170441Z
CREATED:20260717T150006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T170441Z
UID:33577-1789834500-1789841100@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:The Condor Daughter
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Álvaro Olmos Torrico\nBolivia\, 2025 \nA source of pride for Bolivian cinema\, The Condor Daughter has not only garnered more than 25 international awards\, but in Bolivian cinemas the film became the most watched national film in the last decade\, demonstrating that the local public consumes its own cinema with pride and a genuine connection. \nClara is a young Quechua midwife who sings to soothe the pain of pregnant women. Her mother\, Ana\, a veteran midwife\, sees this gift as a miracle from the gods. Influenced by a friend\, and after a falling out with her mother\, the young woman decides to leave for the city. The community suffers the mysterious death of animals and crops\, and the villagers attribute this punishment to Clara’s departure. Her mother decides to travel to the city and embark on a search to bring her back.
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/the-condor-daughter/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Films from Turtle Island & Beyond,Highlights,Vanguardias
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260919T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260919T180000
DTSTAMP:20260804T145757Z
CREATED:20260717T150058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260804T145757Z
UID:34065-1789835400-1789840800@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:Amor (es) ciego
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the Vancouver Queer Film Festival.  \nAmor (es) ciego explores the many ways love shapes\, complicates\, and transforms our lives with angst and humour. Across these films\, love appears as desire\, discovery\, and devotion. It can illuminate our deepest truths while blinding us to our faults\, becoming both a blessing and a risk. \nThis year’s selection reflects the evolving landscape of queer Latin American storytelling\, where love is no longer confined to struggle alone\, but expands into joy\, vulnerability\, and possibility. Notably\, for the first time\, the program includes three films made by Latine filmmakers in the United States\, highlighting how migration and new cultural contexts can create space for different expressions of queer affection and belonging. \nTogether\, these stories invite us to embrace romantic love in all its beautiful contradictions. \nCurated by Kathleen Mullen and Robert Rios \nExplore this short program here \nTickets for this event will be sold through the Vancouver Queer Film Festival website.
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/amor-es-ciego/
LOCATION:International Village Theatre 8\, 88 W Pender St 3rd floor\, vancouver\, BC\, V6B 6N9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Queer Pix: Features + Shorts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260919T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260919T200000
DTSTAMP:20260804T150612Z
CREATED:20260717T150059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260804T150612Z
UID:33989-1789842600-1789848000@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:Los Hongos
DESCRIPTION:Every night after work\, construction worker Ras stays up late graffitiing around Cali\, Colombia. But when he steals paint to finish a huge mural\, he gets fired. Penniless\, Ras journeys across the city to find fellow graffiti artist Calvin\, a fine art student struggling with his parents’ divorce. \nScreening followed by a Q&A with director Oscar Ruiz Navia. \nTICKETS:
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/los-hongos/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Highlights,Spotlight on Oscar Ruiz Navia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260919T204500
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260919T222000
DTSTAMP:20260804T150750Z
CREATED:20260725T045825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260804T150750Z
UID:34481-1789850700-1789856400@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:A Loose End
DESCRIPTION:Santiago\, an Argentinian police constable\, crosses the border to Uruguay on the run from the other police officers on his trail. Putting his uniform to good use\, he inspects regional food stalls\, testing milk products and cold cuts to survive\, while trying to go unnoticed among the locals. With neither money nor a place to stay\, but with kindness and wit\, he starts to carve out a new life for himself\, receiving help from the local characters who cross his path\, and even meeting the person he believes could be the love of his life. \nTICKETS:
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/a-loose-end-2/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260920T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260920T150000
DTSTAMP:20260810T224132Z
CREATED:20260810T224132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260810T224132Z
UID:34810-1789912800-1789916400@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:Chilemonos Spotlight
DESCRIPTION:A showcase highlighting a diverse array of stories that exemplify the potential of Latin American animation from the past two years at the CHILEMONOS Festival. A material and emotional journey that reveals the transformations\, challenges\, and vibrant creativity of the continent’s newest voices.
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/chilemonos-spotlight/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260920T154500
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260920T160000
DTSTAMP:20260817T172837Z
CREATED:20260717T150048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T172837Z
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SUMMARY:Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain
DESCRIPTION:Running Time: 15 min \nThe candour of images from the past\, filmed by a camera still hesitant in the hands of the siblings learning to use it\, meets the coldness of the Montreal winter\, frozen in still shots. Voices\, taken from voice messages\, speak not only of illness and sadness but also of hope and everyday life. Two times and two places intertwine\, united by the voices that run through them and by the nostalgia and absence they evoke. Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain is a delicate collage between movement and stillness\, between homeland and adopted country\, between present and memory\, and between presence and disappearance—an experimental essay on mourning and a tribute to a loved one gone too soon. (AJL) \nShort film precedes Crab Trap
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/tigers-can-be-seen-in-the-rain/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Highlights,Spotlight on Oscar Ruiz Navia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260920T154500
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260920T173500
DTSTAMP:20260804T150433Z
CREATED:20260718T073611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260804T150433Z
UID:34321-1789919100-1789925700@vlaff.org
SUMMARY:Crab Trap
DESCRIPTION:In La Barra\, a remote and humid town on Colombia’s Pacific coast\, Cerebro\, leader of the Afro-Colombian community\, faces fierce opposition from El Paisa\, a powerful landowner who plans to build a hotel on the beach. Daniel\, a strange and quiet city dweller\, arrives one afternoon and stays for several days waiting for a boat to take him out of the country. Forced to leave\, he becomes involved in the struggle of the town that resists disappearing with the imminent arrival of progress. \nPreceded by the short Tigers Can Be Seen In The Rain. \nScreening followed by a Q&A with director Oscar Ruiz Navia. \nTICKETS:
URL:https://vlaff.org/es/event/crab-trap/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Highlights,Spotlight on Oscar Ruiz Navia
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