Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios Mexico | 2024 | Spanish with English subtitles | 139 min | Fiction Based on the acclaimed stage play by Arnold Wesker, La Cocina is a tragic and comic tribute to the invisible people who prepare our food. It is the lunchtime rush at The Grill, a New York tourist trap that […]
Dir. Klaudia Reynicke | Peru, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 104 min | Narrative There is a second screening of REINAS on Sept 12th REINAS is an intense, choral and moving tale of initiation in the spirit of the 90s. Everything happens very fast in Lima in the summer of 1992. Lucia, Aurora and […]
Director: Anna Muylaert Brazil | 2025 | Portuguese with English subtitles | 105 min | The Festival is pleased to announce, as its Opening Night Film on September 5, the North American premiere of the latest film by the incredible Brazilian director, Anna Muylaert, (to whom VLAFF dedicated a retrospective in 2016) with a repeat […]
Dir. Ana Endara Lozano | Panana, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 108 min | Narrative Venue: The Cinematheque **There is 2nd screening of this film on Sept 12 Set in Panama City, this delicate and atmospheric drama explores the evolving relationship between two dissimilar lonely souls who develop a touching and unexpected bond. Ana […]
Ainda Estou Aqui Director: Walter Salles Brazil | 2023 | Portuguese with English subtitles | 137 min | Narrative The latest from The Motorcycle Diaries director Walter Salles focuses on the real-life story of Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), whose terrifying experience of sequestration and loss during Brazil’s military dictatorship transformed her into an activist, lawyer, […]