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THURSDAY | SEP 10 | 9:15 PM-1:30 AM | VILLAGE STUDIOS GET TICKETS Come to the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival’s (VLAFF) Opening Night Party! A celebration including a two-DJ lineup that is guaranteed to make you sweat. Join us for SimonSimon’s vinyl set featuring cumbia, salsa, boogaloo and more. Stay till late for a […]
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Dir. Daniel Hendler Uruguay, Argentina 2025 ”There’s universal pleasure to be had in the film’s inventive vision of a fugitive” Lee Marshal, Screen Daily Santiago, an Argentinian police constable, crosses the border to Uruguay on the run from the other police officers on his trail. Putting his uniform to good use, he inspects regional food […] |
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Our stories do not end when the apocalypsis and destruction arrives. That is just one part of our history, there is a future when the Earth is alive and healthy again, when we can live on it, when we come back following the voice of our ancestors. This does not happen magically, it happens because […]
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Dir, Diego Céspedes Chile 2025 "The fascinating feature debut from writer-director Diego Céspedes, is a film of painfully bittersweet, enduringly beautiful joys''. 1982. 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 […]
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The Devil Smokes (and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box) Dir, Ernesto Martínez Bucio Mexico 2025 Mexico 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, […] |
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Areo Peña is the chief of the Wounaan tribe, a peaceful community based in the Darien rainforest, on the border between Panama and Colombia. The tribe faces a pressing crisis: the jungle is under threat from illegal loggers, drug traffickers, cattle ranchers, miners and a government that refuses to recognise the Wounaan’s territorial rights. When […]
Free Admission (with VLAFF membership)
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The curtains rise, revealing the magic of cinema: textures, stories, connections we feel from our seats. In this selection, film channels our devotions, frustrations, losses, and dreams. Honouring their identity and sense of belonging, these Latinx creators nurture their illusions and ingeniously express and overcome personal and social barriers. Throughout this program, the setting transforms […]
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HOMO ARGENTUM Dirs. Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat Writer: Andrés Duprat Argentina 2025 ''Argentine actors are so good when they're authentic. I'm thinking of Federico Luppi, Ricardo Darín, Francella, people like that. And what a joy it is to have directors like Duprat and Cohn, who constantly challenge conventions, the dogmas of woke culture, and the […] |
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An interactive, hands-on workshop where members of the community can gather in the creation of their very own cyanotype pieces. The workshop will fully guide each participant through the process of building their piece, while also allowing them to make their own artistic choices and reflect their personal identity. Led by Ximena Baeza, Marcela Echevarría, […]
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Bassist, composer and producer from Brazil, Linaldo Sans has been in the music scene for over twenty years, and since 2019 is based in Vancouver. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music with specialization in electric bass guitar, and also arrangement and composition extension courses. In Brazil, he had an opportunity to study and […]
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Dir. Gabriel Mascaro Brazil 2025 ''A magical escape from exile to freedom'' The 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 […] |
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Dirs, Vickie Curtis and Doug Anderson Guatemala, USA 2025 From 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. Comparsa fully immerses audiences in the intense world of Ciudad Peronia, Guatemala, where sisters Lesli and Lupe use […]
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Dir. Dolores Fonzi Argentina 2025 BELEN is the second feature film directed by renowned actress Dolores Fonzi. BELEN had its world premiere at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and was selected as Argentina's entry for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards. Tucumán, Argentina, 2014; a young woman is admitted to a […]
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Come learn how to build your own piñata, and support our Workshop Lead Diana in the creation of VLAFF’s 24th Anniversary Piñata, which will be for our Closing Night Party! Led by Diana Chevalier |
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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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Dir, 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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1982. 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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Wed, 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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Dir. 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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Dir. 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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Dir, Nadine Gomez Quebec, Mexico 2025 Filmmaker in attendance! A 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 […]
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What does it mean to honour our decisions, and what must we leave behind to move forward? In this program, we encounter characters who confront the darkness of their desires and contradictions, situations that push them to their limits and challenge their lives as they know them. Through animation, horror, video essay, and docufiction, the […]
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Dir, Simón Mesa Soto Colombia 2025 Since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival 2025, A POET has traveled the world receiving awards, but above all, applause and laughter. A gem of Colombian cinema, prepare for an unforgettable journey to a place you never imagined: the poetry circle of Medellín. Óscar Restrepo, the poet of […] |
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Dir. Fermin de la Serna Peru, Argentina 2025 Lovers 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 […]
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Memories of the Underdevelopment tells the story of Sergio, an upper-class intellectual who – a year after the Castro-led revolution – decides not to leave the country, even though his parents and estranged wife have escaped to Miami. Alienated from the major socio-political upheaval that is transforming the reality that surrounds him, Sergio is a […]
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To many, one of the most shocking parts of moving to Canada is the wildly wide range between seasons: the scorching summers, the showering autumns, the freezing winters, the flowering springs. Through a seasonal frame, the films in this program explore life in Canada in a variety of forms - love, distance, depression, migration by […] |
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🔥 FUEGO / FOGO Cuir Party 🔥 SATURDAY | SEP 19 | 10:30PM-2:00AM | THE BIRDHOUSE ¡La tercera es la vencida! Third time’s the charm! You know you love it, you know you don’t want to miss it. Fuego Fogo comes back for the third year in a row, the steamiest collaboration between the Vancouver […]
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In a lost town in the tropics, a ruler banned dances, songs and celebrations. This is how Makondo starts, a performance created by the GKO Orchestra, a band of musicians, dancers and circus actors from different parts of the world. Fait vivir recounts, through Manuk, a five-year-old boy, the legend of this ingenious and unusual […]
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Dir. Álvaro Olmos Torrico Bolivia, 2025 A 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 […]
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Co-presented with the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. Curated by Kathleen Mullen and Robert Rios Amor (es) ciego explores with angst and humour the many ways love shapes, complicates, and transforms our lives. Across these films, love appears as desire, discovery, and devotion. It can illuminate our deepest truths while blinding us to our faults, becoming […] |
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A showcase highlighting a diverse array of stories that exemplify the potential of Latin American animation from the past two years at the CHILEMONOS Festival. A material and emotional journey that reveals the transformations, challenges, and vibrant creativity of the continent’s newest voices.
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Running Time: 15 min The candour of images from the past, filmed by a camera still hesitant in the hands of the siblings learning to use it, meets the coldness of the Montreal winter, frozen in still shots. Voices, taken from voice messages, speak not only of illness and sadness but also of hope and […]
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In La Barra, a remote and humid town on Colombia's Pacific coast, Cerebro, leader of the Afro-Colombian community, faces fierce opposition from El Paisa, a powerful landowner who plans to build a hotel on the beach. Daniel, a strange and quiet city dweller, arrives one afternoon and stays for several days waiting for a boat […] |
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