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SUMMARY:Opening Night: A Loose End
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Daniel Hendler\nUruguay\, Argentina\n2025 \n\n\n”There’s universal pleasure to be had in the film’s inventive vision of a fugitive”\nLee Marshal\, Screen Daily \n\n\nSantiago\, 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 stay\, but with kindness and wit\, he starts to carve out a new life for himself\, receiving help from the local characters who cross his path\, and even meeting the person he believes could be the love of his life. \n\n\nPremiering at the Venice Film Festival last year\, A LOOSE END is the 3rd feature film as a director by the renowned Uruguayan actor Daniel Hendler. \n\n\nFollowed by the OPENING NIGHT PARTY!! \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/a-loose-end/
LOCATION:SFU Woodward’s
CATEGORIES:Highlights,Opening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260913T201500
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260913T220000
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SUMMARY:The Blue Trail
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Gabriel Mascaro\nBrazil\n2025 \n”A magical escape from exile to freedom” The Hollywood Reporter \nTereza\, 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 are brought to “enjoy” their final years\, freeing the younger generation to focus fully on productivity and growth. Tereza refuses to accept this imposed fate. Instead\, she embarks on a transformative journey through the rivers and tributaries of the Amazon to fulfil one last wish before her freedom is taken away – a decision that will change her destiny forever. \nWorld Premiere\, Berlin Film Festival 2025
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/the-blue-trail/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Highlights,International Hits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260914T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260914T223000
DTSTAMP:20260817T165852Z
CREATED:20260717T150050Z
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SUMMARY:Elder Son
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Cecilia Kang\nArgentina\n2025 \nLila\, 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 to the past in order to reinvent the present. \nWorld Premiere\, Locarno Film Festival 2025 \n  \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/elder-son/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Highlights,New Directors Competition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260915T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260915T221000
DTSTAMP:20260818T150104Z
CREATED:20260717T150033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T150104Z
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SUMMARY:La Salsa Vive
DESCRIPTION:Dir Juan Carvajal\nColombia\, USA\n2025 \n”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 \nA vibrant journey through a genre born of Afro-Cuban rhythms—mambo\, guaracha\, guaguancó—fused with the drive of New York jazz\, and one that found its second homeland in Cali\, Colombia. With historical rigor\, the film traces the musical voyage back and forth between Havana\, New York\, and Cali\, showing how salsa became a shared language across cultures. It then dives into daily life in Cali\, portraying dancers\, collectors\, young enthusiasts\, and veteran masters who keep the tradition alive in cabarets\, competitions\, and on the streets. Featuring testimonies from icons such as Rubén Blades\, Henry Fiol\, and Willie Rosario\, it celebrates the popular resilience of a genre that remains identity\, passion\, and community. \nTICKETS: \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/la-salsa-vive/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:¡Así Suena! Music Films,Highlights
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260917T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260917T200500
DTSTAMP:20260817T172059Z
CREATED:20260717T150012Z
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SUMMARY:A Poet
DESCRIPTION:Dir\, Simón Mesa Soto\nColombia\n2025 \nSince 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. \nÓscar Restrepo\, the poet of the title\, has been incapable of measuring up to his promising first steps in literature\, and gets by as he can while caring for his mother. Óscar finds a kindred spirit in his student Yurlady\, a young woman whom he sees as a diamond in the rough of poetry. \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/a-poet/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Cinema & Literature,Highlights,International Hits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260918T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260918T220000
DTSTAMP:20260820T003705Z
CREATED:20260717T173151Z
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SUMMARY:Our Body is an Expanding Star
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Semillites Hernández Velasco & Tania Hernández Velasco\nMexico\n2025 \n”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.”\nErnesto Diezmartínez\, Letras Libres \nSemillites and Tania\, two queer siblings bound by a powerful friendship\, journey through the brown terrain of their own bodies – lands they once rejected. They traverse landscapes of skin\, dreams and viscera\, crossing into places that pulse with their ancestors’ memory and\, along the way\, encounter a constellation of flowers\, grasshoppers and fossils. Through collage\, animation\, manifesto\, dance and intimacy\, the film moves across scales of body and territory\, reimagining identity beyond Mexico’s colonial narratives. \n\nWorld Premiere\, IDFA Amsterdam 2025\nWinner\, Best Film\, Guanajuato Film Festival 2026\n\n \nTICKETS:\n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/our-body-is-an-expanding-star/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Highlights,Queer Pix: Features + Shorts,Vanguardias
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260919T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260919T153000
DTSTAMP:20260817T172441Z
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SUMMARY:Fait Vivir
DESCRIPTION: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 group. His imaginative and poetic gaze intertwines the ‘andariego’ record of these artists through different Colombian towns and cities with the “staging” of their show. Likewise\, the fantasy of our narrator allows us to get to know the daily life of its creators and the deep dream that feeds this project that invites freedom and movement.\nScreening followed by a Q&A with director Oscar Ruiz Navia. \nTICKETS: \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/fait-vivir/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:¡Así Suena! Music Films,Highlights,Spotlight on Oscar Ruiz Navia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260919T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260919T180500
DTSTAMP:20260817T170441Z
CREATED:20260717T150006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T170441Z
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SUMMARY:The Condor Daughter
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Álvaro Olmos Torrico\nBolivia\, 2025 \nA 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 connection. \nClara is a young Quechua midwife who sings to soothe the pain of pregnant women. Her mother\, Ana\, a veteran midwife\, sees this gift as a miracle from the gods. Influenced by a friend\, and after a falling out with her mother\, the young woman decides to leave for the city. The community suffers the mysterious death of animals and crops\, and the villagers attribute this punishment to Clara’s departure. Her mother decides to travel to the city and embark on a search to bring her back.
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/the-condor-daughter/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Films from Turtle Island & Beyond,Highlights,Vanguardias
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260919T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260919T200000
DTSTAMP:20260804T150612Z
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SUMMARY:Los Hongos
DESCRIPTION: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. \nScreening followed by a Q&A with director Oscar Ruiz Navia. \nTICKETS:
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/los-hongos/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Highlights,Spotlight on Oscar Ruiz Navia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260920T154500
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260920T160000
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SUMMARY:Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain
DESCRIPTION:Running Time: 15 min \nThe 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 everyday life. Two times and two places intertwine\, united by the voices that run through them and by the nostalgia and absence they evoke. Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain is a delicate collage between movement and stillness\, between homeland and adopted country\, between present and memory\, and between presence and disappearance—an experimental essay on mourning and a tribute to a loved one gone too soon. (AJL) \nShort film precedes Crab Trap
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/tigers-can-be-seen-in-the-rain/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Highlights,Spotlight on Oscar Ruiz Navia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260920T154500
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260920T173500
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CREATED:20260718T073611Z
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SUMMARY:Crab Trap
DESCRIPTION: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 to take him out of the country. Forced to leave\, he becomes involved in the struggle of the town that resists disappearing with the imminent arrival of progress. \nPreceded by the short Tigers Can Be Seen In The Rain. \nScreening followed by a Q&A with director Oscar Ruiz Navia. \nTICKETS:
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/crab-trap/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Highlights,Spotlight on Oscar Ruiz Navia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260920T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260920T201500
DTSTAMP:20260817T160359Z
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SUMMARY:Vainilla
DESCRIPTION:Dir\, Mayra Hermosillo\nMexico\n2025 \n“A poignant\, compelling film that establishes Hermosillo as one of the most exciting new voices in contemporary Mexican cinema.” \nIn 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 to an outstanding debt. We experience this story through the eyes of the youngest\, eight-year-old Roberta\, as she embarks on a journey of self-discovery that impacts the rest of the family. \nPremiering at the Venice Film Festival in 2025\, VAINILLA has been collecting awards throughout the year\, such as the audience award at the Morelia Film Festival\, and currently has seven nominations for the Ariel Award from the Mexican Film Academy. \nTICKETS: \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/vainilla/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Closing,Highlights,Spotlight Mayra Hermosillo
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