Dir. Fermin de la Serna Peru, Argentina 2025 Lovers 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dir. Alejandro Zuno Mexico 2024 Featuring powerful performances by Mayra Hermosillo and Andrés Delgado, NEWBORN is a poignant exploration of love and identity. 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 […]
Brendocha is a Peruvian-born DJ/event organizer, based in Vancouver. They are a co-founder of Club Bebé, a Queer Latinx collective curating events that highlight queer Latinx talent in Vancouver's night life. Brendocha brings fast-paced and energetic sets that traverse through Latin bass, baile funk, merengue, techno- captivating audiences with her cutting- edge style. She has […]
Dir. Semillites Hernández Velasco & Tania Hernández Velasco Mexico 2025 ''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.'' Ernesto Diezmartínez, Letras Libres Semillites and Tania, two queer siblings bound by a powerful friendship, journey through […]
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 […]
Dir. Álvaro Olmos Torrico Bolivia, 2025 A 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 […]
Co-presented with the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. Curated by Kathleen Mullen and Robert Rios Amor (es) ciego explores with angst and humour the many ways love shapes, complicates, and transforms our lives. Across these films, love appears as desire, discovery, and devotion. It can illuminate our deepest truths while blinding us to our faults, becoming […]
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. Screening followed by a Q&A with director […]
Colectivo SUR is an emerging six-member musical collective that reinterprets Latin American folklore and complements it with original music responding to the diverse cultural identities of its Members. Drawing from styles ranging from cumbia to Andean music, the group creates a contemporary sound through the use of traditional instruments such as the Venezuelan cuatro, charango, […]
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 […]