Local Perspectives
A program of short films by Latin-Canadian filmmakers, where the views and stories of filmmakers who decided to migrate to this country intermingle. Explore this short program here
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Elder Son
The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, CanadaDir. Cecilia Kang Argentina 2025 Lila, 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 […]
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The Reserve
Cineworks 1131 Howe St, Vancouver, BC, Canada¡Activismo!Dir, Pablo Pérez Lombardini Mexico 2025 While 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 […]
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Copper (Cobre)
Cineworks 1131 Howe St, Vancouver, BC, CanadaDir, Nicolás Pereda Canada, Mexico 2025 ''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''. Coming across a body on his way to work in a remote mining […]
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The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada1982. Eleven-year-old Lidia lives with her beloved queer family in a desert mining town in northern Chile. As an unknown and deadly disease begins to spread, legend has it that it is transmitted between two men, through a simple glance, when they fall in love. While people are accusing her family, Lidia must find out […]
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Salseo Van Salsa Dancing Class
Asi SuenaSalseo is a queer Latinx-led collective born in February 2024 due to the absence of queer-centered spaces in Vancouver to learn and practice Afro-Latinx social dancing. Inspired by the salsa and cumbia communities in Mexico, and the open-to-all spirit of cumbia street dancing, Salseo was created. They aim to build connection and joy through Afro-Latinx […]
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La Salsa Vive
The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, CanadaDir Juan Carvajal Colombia, USA 2025 ''A brave, sensitive, and necessary attempt to reclaim the living memory of salsa......A sincere and devoted love letter to a music that pulses through the veins of millions''. André Didyme-Dôme ROLLING STONE A vibrant journey through a genre born of Afro-Cuban rhythms—mambo, guaracha, guaguancó—fused with the drive of New […]
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¡Así Cantan! Multilingual Open Mic with El Mashup
Asi SuenaWed, Sep 16 7:30pm - 8:30pm Language carries memory, humour, family, migration and countless ways of understanding the world. At VLAFF, we believe that having access to the languages of our communities and ancestors allows us to remain connected to culture, and to one another. Join us for ¡Así Cantan!, a free Multilingual Open Mic […]
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Light Memories
Cineworks 1131 Howe St, Vancouver, BC, CanadaDir. Misha Vallejo Ecuador 2025 Misha, 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. World […]
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The Blue Trail
Cineworks 1131 Howe St, Vancouver, BC, CanadaDir. Gabriel Mascaro Brazil 2025 ''A magical escape from exile to freedom'' Hollywood Reporter Tereza, 77, has lived her whole life in a small industrialised town in the Amazon, until one day she receives an official government order to relocate to a senior housing colony. The colony is an isolated area where the elderly are […]
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Emerging Experimental
The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, CanadaThe eclectic selection of films in this program highlights a number of exciting local filmmakers unafraid to portray modern life in inventive and innovative ways. Siblings reconnect in dreamy old playgrounds, digital surveillance and philosophical inquiry collide, a sleepless night at home becomes an explorative site of border and water politics. Across approaches and textures, […]
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PARA VIVIR: The Implacable Times of Pablo Milanés
The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, CanadaDir, Fabien Pisani Cuba, Mexico 2025 A deeply personal portrait of Cuban music icon Pablo Milanés, captured in self-imposed exile during his final years. Milanés, co-founder of the Nueva Trova movement with Silvio Rodríguez, was a major voice in Cuba's revolutionary cultural movement. This film, directed by his adopted son Fabien Pisani, combines interviews with […]
