22nd Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Sept 5-15, 2024

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August 26, 2024
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September 7, 2024(1 event)

6:15 pm: Outsider Girls (with Lupe Q and the Galactic Corn Cake)


September 7, 2024

Rafa's unexpected pregnancy threatens the pink and extravagant teenage world she lounges about in with her best friend, Gabriela. Although abortion in Chile is illegal, with enough money it's not impossible, and together they must navigate the hostility of the system to find a way out of their predicament.

Winner of Best Director of Photography at BAFICI - Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, 2023.

Preceded by LUPE Q AND THE GALACTIC CORN CAKE with Javier Badillo and Magda Ochoa in attendance!

The Cinematheque
1131 Howe Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
September 8, 2024
September 9, 2024
September 10, 2024(1 event)

6:00 pm: Rotting in the Sun


September 10, 2024

Sebastián Silva is detached from life, struggling to succeed in the art world and habitually taking ketamine. When he meets social media influencer Jordan Firstman at a nudist beach, the two discuss collaborating but fate has other plans.

Winner of Grand Jury Award for Screenwriting at Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival, 2023

The Cinematheque
1131 Howe Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
September 11, 2024(1 event)

4:00 pm: In memoriam: Narcisa Hirsch


September 11, 2024

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Born in Germany yet Argentine by choice, Narcisa Hirsch was the pioneer of Argentine experimental cinema. This selection of six short films approaches Narcisa’s work from its beginnings in the late 1960s up to her last film Materia Oscura (2023).

Narcisa’s gaze is expansive, it cuts across forms and the reflections it creates leave us in a narcotic state in which time and space slowly transform. She described this process as follows: “Cinema is what flows and leaves, that which doesn’t stay, an image every twenty-fourth of a second; cinema is being a dark room with others sharing a ritual. Yet, above all, it is the luminosity of the images, images that in being projected make visible other images, the internal, the ones that are kept, the dark and forgotten ones, in that beam of light that travels through the terrain to uproot us from where we are sitting and leave us melting with this light in a quasi passionate encounter.”

Cineworks
1131 Howe Street (entrance in back lane)
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
September 12, 2024
September 13, 2024(2 events)

7:15 pm: The Count


September 13, 2024

After living 250 years in this world, Augusto Pinochet, who is not dead but an aged vampire, decides to die once and for all.

Nominated for Best Cinematography at the Academy Awards, 2024
Winner of Best Script at Venice International Film Festival, 2023

The Cinematheque
1131 Howe Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7

9:30 pm: When Evil Lurks


September 13, 2024

When the residents of a small rural town discover that a demon is about to be born among them, they desperately try to escape, but it may be too late.

Winner of Best Feature Film at Sitges Film Festival, 2023.
Winner of Best Feature Film at Gérardmer Film Festival, 2024.

The Cinematheque
1131 Howe Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
September 14, 2024(1 event)

8:15 pm: Outsider Girls (with Lupe Q and the Galactic Corn Cake)


September 14, 2024

Rafa's unexpected pregnancy threatens the pink and extravagant teenage world she lounges about in with her best friend, Gabriela. Although abortion in Chile is illegal, with enough money it's not impossible, and together they must navigate the hostility of the system to find a way out of their predicament.

Winner of Best Director of Photography at BAFICI - Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, 2023.

Preceded by LUPE Q AND THE GALACTIC CORN CAKE with Javier Badillo and Magda Ochoa in attendance!

The Cinematheque
1131 Howe Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
September 15, 2024(1 event)

2:00 pm: CHILEMONOS: Animated Shorts Program


September 15, 2024

A collaboration between CHILEMONOS, one of Latin America’s leading animation festivals, and VLAFF, this one-hour program is suitable for all audiences and brings together short films and video clips from recent years, showing the diverse themes, visions, colours, and styles that constitute Latin America.

Join us for a free FLIPBOOK ANIMATION WORKSHOP after the screening with Margarita Cid Lizondo, director of the CHILEMONOS Festival.

The Cinematheque
1131 Howe Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
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