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  • September 2026

  • Thu 10
    A loose end.

    Opening Night: A Loose End

    September 10 @ 7:00 pm - 8:35 pm
    SFU Woodward’s

    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 […]

  • Sun 13
    blue trail.

    The Blue Trail

    September 13 @ 8:15 pm - 10:00 pm
    The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    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 […]

  • Mon 14
    Elder Son

    Elder Son

    September 14 @ 8:30 pm - 10:30 pm
    The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Dir. Cecilia Kang Argentina 2025 Lila, a young Korean-Argentinean girl, navigates the contradictions of her identity and tries to find her place in the world. Her father Antonio arrives in Latin America 18 years earlier and decides to bet everything on the promise of a young immigrant's dream. A family epic that seeks to return […]

  • Tue 15
    La salsa vive

    La Salsa Vive

    September 15 @ 8:30 pm - 10:10 pm
    The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Dir Juan Carvajal Colombia, USA 2025 ''A brave, sensitive, and necessary attempt to reclaim the living memory of salsa......A sincere and devoted love letter to a music that pulses through the veins of millions''. André Didyme-Dôme ROLLING STONE A vibrant journey through a genre born of Afro-Cuban rhythms—mambo, guaracha, guaguancó—fused with the drive of New […]

  • Thu 17
    A Poet.

    A Poet

    September 17 @ 6:00 pm - 8:05 pm
    The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    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 […]

  • Fri 18
    OUR BODY IS AN EXPANDING STAR

    Our Body is an Expanding Star

    September 18 @ 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm
    The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    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 […]

  • Sat 19

    Fait Vivir

    September 19 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
    The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    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 […]

  • Sat 19

    The Condor Daughter

    September 19 @ 4:15 pm - 6:05 pm
    The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    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 […]

  • Sat 19
    Los hongos.

    Los Hongos

    September 19 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
    The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    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 […]

  • Sun 20
    tigers

    Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain

    September 20 @ 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
    The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Running Time: 15 min The candour of images from the past, filmed by a camera still hesitant in the hands of the siblings learning to use it, meets the coldness of the Montreal winter, frozen in still shots. Voices, taken from voice messages, speak not only of illness and sadness but also of hope and […]

  • Sun 20
    Crab trap

    Crab Trap

    September 20 @ 3:45 pm - 5:35 pm
    The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    In La Barra, a remote and humid town on Colombia's Pacific coast, Cerebro, leader of the Afro-Colombian community, faces fierce opposition from El Paisa, a powerful landowner who plans to build a hotel on the beach. Daniel, a strange and quiet city dweller, arrives one afternoon and stays for several days waiting for a boat […]

  • Sun 20
    VAINILLA.

    Vainilla

    September 20 @ 6:30 pm - 8:15 pm
    The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Dir, Mayra Hermosillo Mexico 2025 “A poignant, compelling film that establishes Hermosillo as one of the most exciting new voices in contemporary Mexican cinema.” In the late 1980s, a family of seven women in northern Mexico, spanning different generations and ideologies, fights to save their home, which they are on the verge of losing due […]

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