Films from Turtle Island & Beyond

September 2025
CICADAS

September 6, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Dir. Luna Marán | Mexico, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 97 mins | Narrative Yuli is the topila (auxiliary police) of San Pablo Begu´, a mountain community in the north of Oaxaca where the inhabitants on a rotating basis assume the responsibilities of self-government on a rotating and honorary basis (communality) along with their […]
RED BIRD (Puka Urpi)

September 7, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Dir. Segundo Carlos Fuérez | Ecuador, 2024 | Rated PG Chimborazo Highland Quichua with English subtitles | 72 min | Narrative, animation, experimental Film inspired by an Ecuadorian oral story. Puka Urpi is about the adventure of Killa, a 5-year-old girl who, after the death of her mother, moves from the city to the countryside […]