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 lineup that is guaranteed to make you sweat. Join us for SimonSimon’s vinyl set featuring cumbia, salsa, boogaloo and more. Stay till late for a […]
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 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 […]
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 again, when we can live on it, when we come back following the voice of our ancestors. This does not happen magically, it happens because […]
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 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 […]
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 are left in the care of their grandmother. As they struggle to survive, the line between reality and something darker begins to blur. The grandmother, […]
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 returns home, she discovers her apartment has been overtaken by women aligned with the regime. With no way out, she hides in the flat next […]
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 jungle is under threat from illegal loggers, drug traffickers, cattle ranchers, miners and a government that refuses to recognise the Wounaan’s territorial rights. When […]
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 and sense of belonging, these Latinx creators nurture their illusions and ingeniously express and overcome personal and social barriers. Throughout this program, the setting transforms […]
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 that. And what a joy it is to have directors like Duprat and Cohn, who constantly challenge conventions, the dogmas of woke culture, and the […]
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. 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 […]
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, 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 […]
Dirs, Vickie Curtis and Doug Anderson Guatemala, USA 2025 From 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. Comparsa fully immerses audiences in the intense world of Ciudad Peronia, Guatemala, where sisters Lesli and Lupe use […]