A summer day with VLAFF! Join us this June 23rd for the short film program "In Between Wounds & Weavings," followed by live music from Las Satyas and Boteco bites […]
THURSDAY | SEP 10 | 9:15 PM-1:30 AM | VILLAGE STUDIOS GET TICKETS Come to the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival’s (VLAFF) Opening Night Party! A celebration including a two-DJ […]
Dir. Daniel Hendler Uruguay, Argentina 2025 ”There’s universal pleasure to be had in the film’s inventive vision of a fugitive” Lee Marshal, Screen Daily Santiago, an Argentinian police constable, crosses […]
Our stories do not end when the apocalypsis and destruction arrives. That is just one part of our history, there is a future when the Earth is alive and healthy […]
Dir, Diego Céspedes Chile 2025 "The fascinating feature debut from writer-director Diego Céspedes, is a film of painfully bittersweet, enduringly beautiful joys''. 1982. Eleven-year-old Lidia lives with her beloved queer […]
The Devil Smokes (and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box) Dir, Ernesto Martínez Bucio Mexico 2025 Mexico City, mid-90s. After the sudden disappearance of their parents, five siblings […]
Trapped in a city on the verge of collapse, 38-year-old Adelaida buries her mother and is left completely alone. In the streets of Caracas, protests are brutally crushed. When she […]
Areo Peña is the chief of the Wounaan tribe, a peaceful community based in the Darien rainforest, on the border between Panama and Colombia. The tribe faces a pressing crisis: […]
The curtains rise, revealing the magic of cinema: textures, stories, connections we feel from our seats. In this selection, film channels our devotions, frustrations, losses, and dreams. Honouring their identity […]
HOMO ARGENTUM Dirs. Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat Writer: Andrés Duprat Argentina 2025 ''Argentine actors are so good when they're authentic. I'm thinking of Federico Luppi, Ricardo Darín, Francella, people like […]
Tucumán, 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. […]
Dir. Gabriel Mascaro Brazil 2025 ''A magical escape from exile to freedom'' The Hollywood Reporter Tereza, 77, has lived her whole life in a small industrialised town in the Amazon, […]