Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios Mexico | 2024 | Spanish with English subtitles | 139 min | Fiction Based on the acclaimed stage play by Arnold Wesker, La Cocina is a tragic and comic tribute to the invisible people who prepare our food. It is the lunchtime rush at The Grill, a New York tourist trap that […]
Dir. Klaudia Reynicke | Peru, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 104 min | Narrative There is a second screening of REINAS on Sept 12th REINAS is an intense, choral and moving tale of initiation in the spirit of the 90s. Everything happens very fast in Lima in the summer of 1992. Lucia, Aurora and […]
Director: Anna Muylaert Brazil | 2025 | Portuguese with English subtitles | 105 min | The Festival is pleased to announce, as its Opening Night Film on September 5, the North American premiere of the latest film by the incredible Brazilian director, Anna Muylaert, (to whom VLAFF dedicated a retrospective in 2016) with a repeat […]
Dir. Ana Endara Lozano | Panana, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 108 min | Narrative Venue: The Cinematheque **There is 2nd screening of this film on Sept 12 Set in Panama City, this delicate and atmospheric drama explores the evolving relationship between two dissimilar lonely souls who develop a touching and unexpected bond. Ana […]
Ainda Estou Aqui Director: Walter Salles Brazil | 2023 | Portuguese with English subtitles | 137 min | Narrative The latest from The Motorcycle Diaries director Walter Salles focuses on the real-life story of Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), whose terrifying experience of sequestration and loss during Brazil’s military dictatorship transformed her into an activist, lawyer, […]
Dir. Jayro Bustamante | Guatemala, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 106 mins | Narrative Guatemalan Maestro Jayro Bustamante (IXCANUL, LA LLORONA) -to who the Festival dedicated a retrospective in 2022- returns with a grim fairy tale, another brilliant examination of his country's tumultuous history told through a fantastical genre lens. Based one of Guatemala’s […]
Dirs. Sofía Paloma Gómez & Camilo Becerra | Chile, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 95 mins | Narrative Starring Chilean actress Aline Kuppenheim, to who the Festival dedicated a Spotlight in 2023. Inspired by real events: Ximena, a successful psychiatrist, receives the unexpected visit of her eldest daughter, Tamara, whom she hasn't seen in […]
Dir. Klaudia Reynicke | Peru, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 104 min | Narrative REINAS is an intense, choral and moving tale of initiation in the spirit of the 90s. Everything happens very fast in Lima in the summer of 1992. Lucia, Aurora and their mother are about to leave Peru. They are apprehensive […]
Dirs. Sofía Paloma Gómez & Camilo Becerra | Chile, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 95 mins | Narrative Starring Chilean actress Aline Kuppenheim, to who the Festival dedicated a Spotlight in 2023. Inspired by real events: Ximena, a successful psychiatrist, receives the unexpected visit of her eldest daughter, Tamara, whom she hasn't seen in […]
Dir. Santiago Lozano | Colombia, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 87 min | Narrative Seventy-year-old José de los Santos lives in a village on Colombia’s Pacific coast. He learned the art of ritual burial as a child. Like his ancestors who were brought to Colombia as African slaves, he accompanies the dying and the […]
Dir. Rodrigo Prieto | Mexico, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 133 mins | Narrative Unfolding in a seemingly abandoned Mexican town where past and present beguilingly coexist, the feature directorial debut of legendary cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto (Killers of the Flower Moon) is a mesmerizing story of desire, corruption, and inheritance. A sumptuous adaptation of […]