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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. \n \n         
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:20260912T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260912T151500
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SUMMARY:The Dance of the Kokorrdit
DESCRIPTION:Areo Peña is the chief of the Wounaan tribe\, a peaceful community based in the Darien rainforest\, on the border between Panama and Colombia.\nThe 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.\nWhen Areo discovers that\, due to the indiscriminate felling of trees\, the sacred kokorrdit bird is no longer to be seen in the area\, he decides to set out on a journey to find it\, in the hope of restoring the spiritual balance of the community. But Areo will not be travelling alone: he will be accompanied by Ayned\, a rebellious teenager who lives in the city\, cares only about her mobile phone and is estranged from the traditions of her people. The journey will not be easy: they will have to cross\, on foot and by river\, one of the most dangerous areas in the world and face countless natural and\, above all\, human threats.\nAmidst illegal migrants and demobilised guerrillas\, amidst poisonous snakes and black-market traders\, Areo and Ayned will set out in search of the sacred bird and must learn to accept their differences and live together: after all\, perhaps they are not as different as they think.
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/the-dance-of-the-kokorrdit/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Films from Turtle Island & Beyond
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260911T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260911T153000
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SUMMARY:Following the Voices of Our Ancestors to the Future
DESCRIPTION: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 of the effort and work of generations\, when all the stories matter.  \nIndigenous futurisms is possible because it is made up of stories of peoples who are finding love\, having to leave their family\, coming back to their Indigenous language\, fighting against ceremonial extractivism\, and connecting historical resistance to the present through archival material. \nAkira Iahtail & Masan Galindo \nExplore this short program here
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/following-the-voices-of-our-ancestors-to-the-future/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Canada Looks South,Films from Turtle Island & Beyond
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250907T140000
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SUMMARY:RED BIRD (Puka Urpi)
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Segundo Carlos Fuérez | Ecuador\, 2024 | Rated PG\nChimborazo Highland Quichua with English subtitles | 72 min | Narrative\, animation\, experimental \nFilm 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 to live with her grandmother. At first\, she does not understand the language or the environment\, but little by little over time the girl learns from her grandmother to work the land and connects with the countryside and nature. One day the grandmother gets sick and Killa goes into the forest in search of the medicine\, here she finds some red feathers that guide her to an old house where she finds something that will change her destiny. \nPreceded by Moon Belly \n \n\n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/red-bird/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Films from Turtle Island & Beyond
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SUMMARY:CICADAS
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Luna Marán | Mexico\, 2024\nSpanish with English subtitles | 97 mins | Narrative \nYuli 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 work and personal activities. Guarding the entrance to the town\, she stops a group of machinery that is trying to enter the community to begin construction of a highway. When she notifies the town\, no authority is aware of the project and the community goes on alert; they will have to decide whether or not to accept the highway project and its consequences. \nWorld Premiere\, Morelia Film Festival\, 2024. \nPreceded by: THE GUARDIANS OF THE LAKE (Director José Morales Ferulli and the Tz’utujil’ community of San Pedro la Laguna\, Guatemala\, Tz’utujil’ and Spanish with English subtitles\, 2023\, 20 min)\n \nReserve a FREE ticket HERE.\n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/cicadas/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Films from Turtle Island & Beyond,Mexico Today
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