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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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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\nTICKETS:\n \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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SUMMARY:Chronicle of a City
DESCRIPTION:Dir\, Nadine Gomez\nQuebec\, Mexico\n2025\nFilmmaker in attendance! \nA patchwork of millions of lives\, urban spaces are not only streets and concrete. They are where our dreams and deepest worries unfold. Chronicle of a City drifts and strolls through time and chance encounters\, moving between fantasy and reality\, echoing the intimate and ghostly voices of our metropolises\, reminding us that we inhabit The City as much as it inhabits us. This roaming essay is a visual and sonic meditation that invites us to see urban life as a web of sensations that move through us and draw us closer to one another\, even in the midst of solitude. \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/chronicle-of-a-city/
LOCATION:Cineworks\, 1131 Howe St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Vanguardias
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260915T160000
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SUMMARY:Copper (Cobre)
DESCRIPTION:Dir\, Nicolás Pereda\nCanada\, Mexico\n2025 \n”Nicolás Pereda is a central figure in a diverse group of Latin-American directors whose innovative approaches to narrative filmmaking over the last 15 years have together defined one of the most exciting trends in world cinema”. \nComing across a body on his way to work in a remote mining town\, Lázaro is regarded with suspicion by the members of his community\, and even of his own family. When lung disease forces him to take time off from the mine\, doubts regarding his true state of health intensify\, stoking rumours about his potential involvement in the crime. Lázaro finds comfort in his aunt\, only a few years older than himself and with whom he develops an increasingly more ambiguous relationship. \n \nTICKETS:\n\n  
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/copper/
LOCATION:Cineworks\, 1131 Howe St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Vanguardias
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250913T181500
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SUMMARY:CHRONICLES OF THE ABSURD
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Miguel Coyula | Cuba\, 2024\nSpanish with English subtitles | 77 min | Narrative \n”Had Kafka been Cuban\, he would have been a non-fiction writer.” Virgilio Piñeiro \nIn Cuba\, artistic legitimacy and subsistence require official recognition by a state-sponsored art institution. Working independently means having scant income and limited rights\, and\, as filmmaker Miguel Coyula and actor Lynn Cruz learned while making their dystopian feature Corazón azul in 2011\, being subjected to various forms of control and intimidation. Meanwhile\, outside of Cuba\, anti-regime critics prove similarly dogmatic and silencing. A defiant and entertaining work that strains against extreme limitations\, Chronicles of the Absurd playfully uses headshots and avatars to visualize audio recordings (often recorded clandestinely) and verbatim text documenting years of Kafkaesque impositions\, threats\, and vital dissident art. \nWinner. Best Film. Envision Competition. IDFA -Amsterdam Documentary FF- 2024\nWinner. Special Jury Award. Avant-garde and Genre Competition. BAFICI -Buenos Aires FF- 2025
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/chronicles-of-the-absurd/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Vanguardias
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SUMMARY:Lázaro at Night
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Nicolás Pereda | Canada/Mexico\, 2024 | Spanish with English subtitles | 76 min \nThis is Nicolas Pereda´s nine feature. Pereda is a Mexican- Canadian film director\,  who has built a peculiar career having always worked with the same group of actors (the Mexican theater collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol) is known for his narrative\, with a sober and enjoyable film language. \nNicolas Pereda’s latest feature\, Lázaro at Night\, follows three forty-something friends and actors in Mexico City – Lázaro\, Luisa\, and Francisco – who are entangled in a love triangle. The trio navigate auditions for a coveted role in the same film as the film director’s unorthodox casting methods lead the friends and lovers to question their aspirations and the roles they inhabit in their daily lives. In this hypnotic cinematic endeavour\, Pereda’s signature minimalist style elevates the mundane to the mythical\, weaving in elements of enchantment and absurdist humour\, culminating in a surprising\, fantastical twist on the story of Aladdin. \nSince its world premiere in 2024\, Lázaro de Noche has been selected in more than ten Film Festivals\, including Toronto\, New York\, Munich and Marseille. 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/lazaro-at-night/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Canada Looks South,Vanguardias
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250906T181500
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SUMMARY:MEMORIES OF A BURNING BODY
DESCRIPTION:*There is a second screening on Wednesday\, Sept 10th at Cineworks \nDir. Antonella Sudasassi | Costa Rica\, 2024\nSpanish with English subtitles | 90 min | Narrative \nThis is the second feature film by Antonella Sudasassi\, an up and coming Costa Rican filmmaker.  \nGrowing up in a repressive era when sexuality was a taboo subject\, 68-year-old Ana\, 69-year-old Patricia and 71-year-old Mayela developed their understanding of what it means to be a woman based on unspoken rules and implicit expectations. Now they dare to talk about it openly. The memories\, secrets and longings of the three are interwoven in a poetic way: while the women tell their stories off-screen\, they fill the body of another woman of their generation who incarnates their lives. \nWorld Premiere\, Berlin Film Festival\, 2024. \n \n\n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/memories-of-a-burning-body/
LOCATION:The Cinematheque\, 1131 Howe Street Vancouver\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 2L7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Vanguardias
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SUMMARY:I SAW THREE BLACK LIGHTS
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Santiago Lozano | Colombia\, 2024\nSpanish with English subtitles | 87 min | Narrative \nSeventy-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 dead on their way to eternal rest. One day\, the ghost of his son Pium Pium\, who was brutally murdered years ago\, appears to José and tells him of his own impending death. Pium Pium warns his father that he must not die near his home; above all\, he must be sure to cross over to the other side in peace. José embarks on his final journey\, entering the jungle to find a place to die. But the area is controlled by armed groups. He must dodge their bullets and violence to save his soul from purgatory. \nWorld Premiere\, Berlin Film Festival\, 2024\nSeven Nominations to the Macondo Prize -Colombian Film Academy Awards-. \n“The film excels most potently in its visual style\, with cinematographer Juan Velásquez bringing an emotive warmth to each scene“. Olivia Popp\, Cine Europa. \n 
URL:https://vlaff.org/event/i-saw-three-black-lights/
LOCATION:BC
CATEGORIES:Vanguardias
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