Latin-Canadian Film Contest

In January 2022, to launch the celebrations of our 20th Anniversary, VLAFF opened a new competitive section to highlight and bring together the great talent of Latin-Canadian filmmakers from all across the world.

CONTEST WINNER:

I Remember Everything

I Remember Everything

Dir. Gabriel Souza Nunes
Vancouver/Brazil, 2022 | 5 min
Portuguese with English subtitles

A film essay about the nostalgia for one’s birth home that pulses within the life of an immigrant.

Screens before The Joy of Things

HONORABLE MENTION:

Whose Boards Are These?

Whose Boards Are These?

De qui sont ces tableaux?

Dir. Camilo Martín-Flórez
Montreal/Colombia, 2021 | 7 min
French & Spanish with English subtitles

An audiovisual comic made with found-footage from 1896 and 1920. This is a film that employs the formal principles of a comic book to underline the naïve, joyful, and ludic content of film. WHOSE BOARDS ARE THESE? tells the story of an idealist filmmaker who dreams of a utopic history of cinema, but he ends up trapped in an eternal beginning, in a vicious cycle, with a belligerent ending.

Screens before Petit Mal