Director: Ángela Carabalí Colombia | 2025 | Spanish with English subtitles | 86 min | Documentary After 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 […]
Formed in 2016, Wasakaka All-Stars, the dynamic Latin Music ensemble from Vancouver, is dedicated to showcasing authentic rhythms and upholding cultural heritage. Having enthralled audiences at premier festivals like Richmond World Fest and Carnaval del Sol, we’ve also twice shared stages with Salsa sensation Maelo Ruiz, most recently on June 2nd, 2023.
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 […]
Dir. José Luis Cano | Mexico, 2025 Spanish with English subtitles | 66 mins | Documentary A family passionate about cumbias and bicycles, shares a culture where brotherhood between the different neighbourhoods of the city is a refuge from accusations and social discrimination. World Premiere, Ambulante Film Festival, 2025 This is the first feature film […]
Le huitième étage, jours de révolte Dir. Pedro Ruiz, Canada/Cuba, 2024, Spanish & French with English subtitles, 91 min Director Pedro Ruiz in attendance! The Eighth Floor is a fascinating hybrid cinematographic work mixing autobiography and fiction, about one of the most singular characters of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ): Jacques Lanctôt. The FLQ […]
Dir. Miguel Coyula | Cuba, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 77 min | Narrative ”Had Kafka been Cuban, he would have been a non-fiction writer.” Virgilio Piñeiro In 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 […]
Diana Mulata is a vinyl collector and selector from Cali, specializing in salsa, cumbia, and boogaloo. Her selections explore Afro-Caribbean heritage and Latin sounds across borders, creating dance floors that hold memory, joy, and resistance. Based in Canada, she brings the pulse of the South to every groove.
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 […]
Co-presentation with the Vancouver Queer Film Festival Curated by Kathleen Mullen, Robert Rios, Mary Galloway, and Maiya Dexel Absurd, diverse, abstract, and profound—this year’s VLAFF x VQFF's Queer Pix celebrates a bold new wave of queer Latin American cinema that’s breaking rules and pushing boundaries. It takes us into unexpected worlds: mixes genres, experiments with […]
Fire and flair; film and fiesta. We’re teaming up again with the Vancouver Queer Film Festival for a steamy after-party at The Birdhouse, Latine Queer/Cuir style. Drag and vogue performances meet salsa, cumbia, and fiery fusion with DJ beats all night long! TICKET INFO: As part of our co-presentation with the VQFF, your ticket to […]
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. Cristobal Jasso | Mexico, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 94 mins | Documentary Marino Mariano is a fisherman and musician from Collantes an afro-mexican community on the Coast of Oaxaca. He is illiterate, yet has composed over 46 songs. Today, at 68, he wants to record the ones he still remembers before he […]