Dir, Nadine Gomez Quebec, Mexico 2025 Filmmaker in attendance! A 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 […]
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 […]
Dir, Simón Mesa Soto Colombia 2025 Since 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. Óscar Restrepo, the poet of […]
Join us for Indigenous Storytelling Night and the premiere of The Nook (El Rinconcito), a special new gathering space at the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival. The Nook invites festival audiences to deepen their engagement with Indigenous artists, creative work and calls to action beyond the land acknowledgement. Through a combination of physical and digital […]
Dir, Maite Alberdi Chile 2025 This is the debut narrative feature from acclaimed documentary filmmaker Maite Alberdi (Chile), Oscar nominated for THE MOLE AGENT and THE ETERNAL MEMORY. 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. […]
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 […]