Director: Eliana Niño Colombia | 2024 | Spanish with English subtitles | 100 min | Fiction Shaira, 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 […]
TURNING POINTS, The dark side and the echo that remains after the lightning strike. Seven short films where darkness seeps into the characters’ lives. Their paths are redirected by moments that will mark them forever. Because sometimes it only takes an instant to change everything. Curated by Ana Tonso & Dani Rodríguez TICKETS
Director: Lamia Chraibi Canada | 2024 | Portuguese with English subtitles | 88 min | Documentary In 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 […]
Director Francisco Passuelo, Canada/Argentina/Mexico, 2025, English and Spanish with English subtitles, 10.45 min Through honest conversations and intimate glimpses of daily life, this short film follows Luis, a Mexican immigrant in Canada reflecting on the aftermath of leaving his homeland and coming out as a gay man. Since arriving in Vancouver in 2007, Luis has […]
¡Así Devoran! Drag Show with M.Y.A. Mya is a Brazilian drag queen who is taking over Vancouver’s drag scene with her emotional ballads and her Brazilian musicality. She has been a finalist in most multi week competition she has entered and she takes pride in representing the Latin excellence we have in this city.
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 […]
Directors: Abraham Jiménez & Claudia Calvino Cuba | 2024 | Spanish with English subtitles | 85 min | Documentary ISLA FAMILIA follows independent journalist Abraham Jiménez Eno during the last 4 years of his life, beginning with the arrival of the Covid pandemic in Cuba through his political exile in Spain. An intimate and epic […]
Dir. Antonella Sudasassi | Costa Rica, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 90 min | Narrative *Screening on Sept 6th & 10th This is the second feature film by Antonella Sudasassi, an up and coming Costa Rican filmmaker. Growing up in a repressive era when sexuality was a taboo subject, 68-year-old Ana, 69-year-old Patricia and […]
This compelling collection of shorts by Latin-Canadian filmmakers invites the viewer into a contemplative space where internal worlds meet external realities. The program navigates the intricate relationship between memory, identity, and place, often through the lens of migration and introspection. Featuring: lessons on flight (dir. Cecilia Araneda); Rootless (dir. Leslie Gabriela Ortiz); Impermanence... a dandelion […]
Dir. Ernesto González | Mexico, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 78 mins | Documentary David dreams of being a pianist like his father, José Luis, who believes it impossible due to his son's physical characteristics: short arms, hands with four fingers and limited hearing. Thanks to his tenacity, David shows him that he can […]
¡Así Cantan! is our beloved karaoke night dedicated to Latin classics — from power ballads to perreo. Back for the second year in a row, this joyous session invites everyone to sing their heart out and celebrate the songs that live in our collective memory.
Dir. Matías Meyer | Canada, Mexico 2024 French and English with English subtitles | 83 min | Narrative 1885, Saskatchewan, Northwest Canada. Louis Riel, leader of the Métis people of Canada, a mixed group of Indigenous and European ancestry, is sentenced to death, found guilty of high treason for having taken up arms against the […]