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SUMMARY:Lovers in the Sky
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Fermin de la Serna\nPeru\, Argentina\n2025 \nLovers in the Sky explores the stories of Cristina and La Bonita\, two trans cooks who have spent decades working aboard cargo ships that tirelessly navigate the rivers of the Peruvian Amazon. Facing personal and social pressures\, both women journey through and reinvent themselves within the territory of post-identity.\nCristina seeks to fulfill a promise she made to her late mother\, while La Bonita is driven by her fear of burning forever in hell. \n\n\nWorld Premiere: 65th Krakow Film Festival 2025
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/lovers-in-the-sky/
LOCATION:Cineworks\, 1131 Howe St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:New Directors Competition
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260916T153000
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SUMMARY:Light Memories
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Misha Vallejo\nEcuador\n2025 \nMisha\, a documentary photographer\, uses his grandfather’s camera to recreate a family album\, bridging the gap to a man he never met. Exploring absent father figures\, he reclaims spaces once denied to his family. Through his lens\, secrets and violence surface\, yet memory’s fluidity offers a chance for redemption. \nWorld Premier: IDFA Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival\, 2025 \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/light-memories/
LOCATION:Cineworks\, 1131 Howe St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:New Directors Competition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260915T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260915T153500
DTSTAMP:20260911T183933Z
CREATED:20260717T150055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T183933Z
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SUMMARY:The Reserve
DESCRIPTION:Dir\, Pablo Pérez Lombardini \nMexico\n2025 \nWhile most of the inhabitants of Monte Virgen struggle to collect their coffee\, the forest ranger Julia discovers that a group of illegal loggers is destroying the Reserve. Determined to stop them\, she looks for the support of a community that will soon turn its back on her. Alone on her quest\, she will gradually lose the things she loves most except one thing: her dignity. \n”An emotional\, sensitive\, and critical film that questions—among other issues—the abuse of coffee pickers; it stands out for its narrative\, social\, and political effectiveness\, bolstered by a superb soundtrack and non-professional actors\, such as the lead actress herself\, who in a sense plays herself”. Rafael Aviña \nWinner\, Best Mexican Film.\nMorelia Film Festival 2025 \n \n\n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/the-reserve/
LOCATION:Cineworks\, 1131 Howe St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:¡Activismo!,New Directors Competition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260914T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260914T223000
DTSTAMP:20260909T000252Z
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  \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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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260914T152500
DTSTAMP:20260915T163457Z
CREATED:20260717T173150Z
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SUMMARY:Comparsa
DESCRIPTION:Dirs\, Vickie Curtis and Doug Anderson\nGuatemala\, USA\n2025 \nFrom the shadows of a Guatemalan barrio scared into silence\, sisters Lesli and Lupe lead a luminous rebellion—unleashing joy\, art\, and radical truth in an epic fight for survival. \nComparsa fully immerses audiences in the intense world of Ciudad Peronia\, Guatemala\, where sisters Lesli and Lupe use art to inspire local youth and heal deep wounds. After 41 girls are killed in a State-run “Safe Home” and the government refuses to act\, the sisters respond with a community comparsa—an exuberant street performance featuring towering puppets\, fi re-breathing stilt walkers\, and thundering drums. With brave vulnerability\, they expose a system that permits and commits violence against women\, and they open up about surviving violence in their own home. \nTheir youth movement takes to the streets\, confronting corruption and reclaiming public space for women and girls. Rooting their eff orts in joy and community care\, they fi nd healing along the way. Built on a 17-year relationship between the subjects and the fi lm team\, Comparsa off ers a stirring portrait of sisterhood\, peacebuilding\, and the transformational power of art.
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/comparsa/
LOCATION:Cineworks\, 1131 Howe St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:¡Activismo!,New Directors Competition
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CREATED:20260717T173151Z
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SUMMARY:The Devil Smokes
DESCRIPTION:The Devil Smokes (and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box)\nDir\, Ernesto Martínez Bucio\nMexico\n2025 \nMexico City\, mid-90s. After the sudden disappearance of their parents\, five siblings are left in the care of their grandmother. As they struggle to survive\, the line between reality and something darker begins to blur. The grandmother\, tormented by strange visions and rising fears\, grows more distant\, while the children’s grip on their own perceptions starts to unravel. \n\nNominated Best Film Best Director\, Mexican Academy Awards\nWinner\, Best New Director\, Berlin Film Festival 2025
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/the-devil-smokes/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:New Directors Competition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250912T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250912T193000
DTSTAMP:20260317T200738Z
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SUMMARY:I Dreamed His Name
DESCRIPTION:Director: Ángela Carabalí\nColombia | 2025 | Spanish with English subtitles | 86 min | Documentary \nAfter 30 years denying her pain\, Angela is confronted by her past when her father appears to her in a dream\, asking her to find him. With her sister Juliana\, she embarks on a trip across Colombia to the Indigenous lands where their father\, a farmer of Afro-descent\, became a victim of forced disappearance. The journey from Medellin to Caloto\, in the challenging Cauca’s province in the Southwest of Colombia\, confronts the sisters with paradoxes of the land\, family emotions\, and indigenous spirituality that will show Angela an unexpected path to reconnecting with her father.
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/i-dreamed-his-name/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:New Directors Competition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250912T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250912T153000
DTSTAMP:20260317T200850Z
CREATED:20250707T190204Z
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SUMMARY:XIBALBA MONSTER
DESCRIPTION:Director: Manuela Irene\nMexico | 2024 | Spanish with English subtitles | 76 min | Fiction | Rated PG \nRogelio is 8\, his parents are never around and he gets his best birthday gifts from his dentist. This summer he is sent away to his nanny’s hometown\, nestled in the Yucatan jungle. Rogelio spends the excruciatingly hot days obsessing over “The Book of Spirits” which awakens in him visions and dreams of ghosts\, but above all\, of an old man who leaves a trace of death when passing by. Rogelio recounts this to his new Mayan friends\, Lucio and Juanito\, who say this man is not a dream\, he is real and lives in the outskirts of town\, he is known as the “Xibalba Monster”. Why these dreams? Rogelio starts to spy on the monster and lives an adventure that will change forever his view on life and death.
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/xibalba-monster/
LOCATION:Cineworks\, 1131 Howe St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Children,New Directors Competition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250911T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250911T152000
DTSTAMP:20260623T174652Z
CREATED:20250704T194450Z
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SUMMARY:SOULS
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Laura Basombrío | Argentina\, 2024\nSpanish with English subtitles | 78 mins | Narrative \nInhabiting the border that separates the mystical and the earthly\, SOULS (Las almas) proposes a dream. Over the half-Martian\, half-Lunar landscapes of the Argentine Northwest\, Estela tells her story. Since her mother died\, the wounds press upon her ailing spirit. Her mother returns in dreams with messages\, the violence of her father exerts pressure from the past\, the distance of her husband feeds on secrets. SOULS is Estela’s inner journey in search of healing amidst memories of the past\, the diffuse time of dreams\, and the present where the living and the dead coexist on All Soul’s Day. \n \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/souls/
LOCATION:Cineworks\, 1131 Howe St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:New Directors Competition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250909T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250909T194500
DTSTAMP:20260623T174907Z
CREATED:20250612T060138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260623T174907Z
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SUMMARY:CIRCO
DESCRIPTION:Director: Lamia Chraibi\nCanada | 2024 | Portuguese with English subtitles | 88 min | Documentary \nIn Rio de Janeiro\, Richard dreams of dazzling audiences in the world’s biggest circus tents. But when the 20-year-old artist is kicked out of his home by his adoptive mother\, his life is turned upside down. His once-clear dream begins to drift out of focus\, and he embarks on a lengthy quest to find his way. A vibrant community of drag queens becomes his refuge\, sparking a new path as he transitions to Ashila. As uncertainty looms\, the spirits of Candomblé offer him hope\, while his sister remains an unwavering pillar of support\, in spite of her own struggles. Through an intimate\, direct cinema approach\, Circo immerses us in the lives of residents of Brazil’s favelas as they seek to shape their own futures. \nPreceded by: Luis\, at Home (Dir. Francisco Passuelo\, Canada/Argentina/Mexico\, 11 min) \n \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/circo/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Canada Looks South,New Directors Competition
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250909T153000
DTSTAMP:20260623T174909Z
CREATED:20250707T191457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260623T174909Z
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SUMMARY:Seeds
DESCRIPTION:Director: Eliana Niño\nColombia | 2024 | Spanish with English subtitles | 100 min | Fiction \nShaira\, a girl from the plains\, dreams of participating in a coleo festival like her deceased brother Andrey. However\, one day her horse disappears\, and the reason is because her grandfather is suffering a drought in his crops forcing him to sell it without mentioning anything to his granddaughter.

On a plains sunset\, his grandfather asks her if she knows the reason why animal figures are formed in the clouds. He tells her that the sky traps them and that is why these figures are formed\, and until the day it rains again on earth\, they return to the village. Shaira decides to go in search of a special seed that will make it rain again and bring her horse Semillas back.
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/seeds/
LOCATION:Cineworks\, 1131 Howe St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:New Directors Competition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250907T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250907T193000
DTSTAMP:20260623T174910Z
CREATED:20250704T201221Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260623T174910Z
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SUMMARY:My Chest is Full of Sparks
DESCRIPTION:Director: Gal S. Castellanos\nMexico | 2024 | Spanish with English subtitles | 75 min | Documentary \nMy dad dies. Days later\, my mom escapes to Turkey to meet her secret Facebook lover. I propose to my mother that we communicate through video letters. These video correspondences reveal our attempts to see each other through a shaky journey of self-discovery. My mom\, who gave up singing to embrace motherhood\, finds freedom for the first time far from home. I\, in solitude\, while making this film\, discover that I need to transition and change my name. \nAwards \n\nMejor documental mexicano 2024 Festival internacional de cine de Monterrey.\nMejor documental mexicano 2024 Festival de cine documental Zanate.\nMención Especial del Jurado Festival de Málaga 2025\n\n \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/my-chest-is-full-of-sparks/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:New Directors Competition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250905T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250905T194500
DTSTAMP:20260623T174912Z
CREATED:20250704T200327Z
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SUMMARY:LOST CHAPTERS
DESCRIPTION:Director: Lorena Alvarado\nVenezuela | 2024 | Spanish with English subtitles | 67 min | Docu-fiction \nWhen Ena discovers a mysterious postcard inside a book\, she embarks on a search across Caracas to uncover a forgotten writer. Her search gradually interweaves with her grandmother’s memory loss and her father’s quixotic dreams.After years living abroad\, Ena returns to Venezuela with a fragmented sense of self. At home\, she finds her grandmother losing her grasp of reality. Meanwhile\, her father spends his days looking for rare books in an attempt to safeguard the country’s literary past. \nBest Latin American Feature\, Monterrey International Film Festival\, 2024. \nCharacters and auteur alike are in the process of a kind of spiritual attempt at reclamation\, the confrontation of a distance they seek to close through retrospection and excavation. It is a foregone time and space they yearn to inhabit\, immemorial and suffused with personal and national meaning alike -Robert Wickers\, The Knockturnal. \nA master class in composition and sound design that leaves no detail to chance\, Lorena Alvarado’s feature debut recalls the intellectual obsessiveness of Roberto Bolaño while achieving a remarkable sense of equanimity and emotional warmth from her real-life sister\, father\, and grandmother\, whose on-screen naturalism never once lapses into mannerism -MoMA. \nPreceded by Fiat Lux 5000 (dir. Daniel Eduvijes Carrera\, 13 min) \n\n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/lost-chapters/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:New Directors Competition
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