A diverse selection of films from Mexico are part of VLAFF 2016, including the outstanding Opening Night film I Promise You Anarchy. In the International Hits section we are pleased to announce the Vancouver premiere of A Monster with a Thousand Heads (by Rodrigo Plá, director of La Demora (The Delay). Our new section ¡Activismo! presents the Mexican productions Time Suspended and A Day in Ayotzinapa 43. Four Mexican short films are part of the competition section and the Mexican director Juan Manuel Sepúlveda is presenting a Vancouver-made film, The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park.
OPENING NIGHT FILM
I Promise You Anarchy (Te prometo anarquía)
Dir: Julio Hernández Cordón
Mexico
INTERNATIONAL HITS
A Monster with a Thousand Heads (Un monstruo de mil cabezas)
Dir: Rodrigo Plá
Mexico
NEW DIRECTORS
The Greatest House in the World (La casa más grande del mundo)
Dir: Ana V. Bojórquez & Lucía Carreras
Guatemala/Mexico
¡ACTIVISMO!
A Day in Ayotzinapa 43 (Un día en Ayotzinapa 43)
Dir: Rafael Rangel
Mexico
Time Suspended (Tiempo suspendido)
Dir: Natalia Bruschtein
Mexico/Argentina
CANADA LOOKS SOUTH
The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park
Dir: Juan Manuel Sepúlveda
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
Mila
Dir: Oscar Enríquez
Mexico
Frank the Indomitable (Frank el indomable)
Dir: Andrés Eichelmann Kaiser
Mexico
Seeing you again (Volverte a ver)
Dir: Abraham Escobedo Salas
Mexico
Bulletproof (A prueba de balas)
Dir: Hector Bustamante
Mexico