22nd Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Sept 5-15, 2024
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September 5, 2024(1 event)
7:00 pm: Opening Night: La Suprema7:00 pm: Opening Night: La Suprema ![]() Director Felipe Holguín Caro in attendance! SFU Woodward's |
September 6, 2024(3 events)
4:00 pm: Skin in Spring4:00 pm: Skin in Spring ![]() Sandra, the new security guard at a shopping centre, crosses paths with a bus driver during her daily commute through Medellín. Through various experiences of desire, she begins a journey towards self-discovery and reclaiming her sexuality. Nominated for Best First Feature Award at Berlinale, 2024. The Cinematheque 6:15 pm: Tomorrow Before After/Mañana antes después6:15 pm: Tomorrow Before After/Mañana antes después ![]() Director Alfonso Quijada in attendance! 6:15 pm: English narration The Cinematheque 8:30 pm: Mañana antes después/Tomorrow Before After8:30 pm: Mañana antes después/Tomorrow Before After ![]() Director Alfonso Quijada in attendance! 6:15 pm: English narration The Cinematheque |
September 7, 2024(2 events)
2:00 pm: La Suprema (with Kuayé)2:00 pm: La Suprema (with Kuayé) ![]() Repeat screening of LA SUPREMA. Preceded by the short film KUAYÉ (13 min). The Cinematheque 4:15 pm: Igualada (with Three Rooms)4:15 pm: Igualada (with Three Rooms) ![]() In Colombia, a nation marred by profound racial and socio-economic disparities, a Black woman from a rural background challenges the status quo by launching a presidential campaign. Re-appropriating the term “igualada,” Francia Márquez, catapults a movement to the upper echelons of power, by refusing to “know her place.” Fifteen years in the making, this documentary peels back the curtain on how unprecedented change can happen. Nominee, Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival, 2024 Preceded by the short film THREE ROOMS (dir. Andrea López, 10 min) The Cinematheque |
September 8, 2024(2 events)
4:00 pm: Paths of Bulla and Tambó / Al Sabor Afro4:00 pm: Paths of Bulla and Tambó / Al Sabor Afro ![]() Producer Natalia Rodriguez Garavito in attendance! The documentary PATHS OF BULLA AND TAMBÓ: The Moñitos Heritage is a compilation of portraits of Bullerengueros and Bullerengueras from Moñitos, Córdoba, Colombia. Through songs and drumbeats, it creates sensitive and musical journeys that encourage encounters and conversations among people of different ages, vocations, and social conditions. AL SABOR AFRO unfolds the culinary history of Afro-descendant women in the municipality of Moñitos, Córdoba (popularly called “the paradise of the Caribbean”) through the eyes of Amalia, a young entrepreneur from the community. The Cinematheque 8:30 pm: My Aunt Gilma (with Iris)8:30 pm: My Aunt Gilma (with Iris) ![]() 13-year-old Isabel takes care of her aunt Gilma, who was beaten by her partner Raphael and admitted to a hospital in the turbulent city of Caracas. During the hospital stay, Isabel promises Gilma to keep a secret. Despite the chaos surrounding them, Isabel will do anything to save her aunt and accomplish her promise. Preceded by the short film IRIS (Montreal/Brazil, 17 mins) with director Gabriela de Andrade in attendance. The Cinematheque |
September 9, 2024(1 event)
5:15 pm: The Soldier's Lagoon5:15 pm: The Soldier's Lagoon ![]() Directed by Pablo Alvarez-Mesa, this riveting experimental work delves deep into the misty Páramo region, into an ecosystem rich in water, but also saturated with oral narratives that populate the territory like foggy patches. Reflecting on the construction of oral history and its relation to the land, the film traverses a living and elusive archive, suspended between Simon Bolivar’s past and Colombia’s present. The Cinematheque |
September 10, 2024(1 event)
2:00 pm: Skin in Spring2:00 pm: Skin in Spring ![]() Sandra, the new security guard at a shopping centre, crosses paths with a bus driver during her daily commute through Medellín. Through various experiences of desire, she begins a journey towards self-discovery and reclaiming her sexuality. Nominated for Best First Feature Award at Berlinale, 2024. Cineworks |
September 11, 2024(2 events)
4:00 pm: In memoriam: Narcisa Hirsch4:00 pm: In memoriam: Narcisa Hirsch ![]() 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 6:00 pm: Bridges Over the Sea (with Teresa's Choice)6:00 pm: Bridges Over the Sea (with Teresa's Choice) ![]() Director Patricia Ayala in attendance! Preceded by the short film TERESA'S CHOICE with director Marlene Castaños in attendance. The Cinematheque |
September 12, 2024(2 events)
2:00 pm: Open Sky (with The Vampires of Poverty)2:00 pm: Open Sky (with The Vampires of Poverty) ![]() A Peruvian father labours patiently, chipping at the white volcanic stone that forms an extraordinary landscape. His son is part of the modern world: he uses cameras and drones in order to create the digital model of a church on a computer. Separated by the mysterious death of the wife/mother figure in the family, these men do not connect, and yet their paths cross in a ghostly manner. Preceded by THE VAMPIRES OF POVERTY (1977, 28 min) Cineworks 6:00 pm: Elis and Tom (with Spell)6:00 pm: Elis and Tom (with Spell) ![]() Los Angeles, February 1974. Tom Jobim, the incarnation of Bossa Nova, and Elis Regina, then Brazil’s most popular singer, met to record what would become one of the most iconic albums in the history of Brazilian music. Through a collection of rare images, never seen before, “Elis & Tom” reveals the conflict and the joy of this unique moment, travelling in time and exposing the intimacy of the creative process as well as the extraordinary personalities of these fantastic artists. Preceded by the short film SPELL (dir. Khalil Charif, 6 min) The Cinematheque |
September 13, 2024(3 events)
2:00 pm: Bridges Over the Sea2:00 pm: Bridges Over the Sea – ![]() Director Patricia Ayala in attendance! Alicia and Michael, her teenage son, live in a palafitic neighbourhood in Tumaco, an area in the Colombian Pacific that concentrates all the beauty and also the terror of this country. She knows that the armed group, which controls her neighbourhood, can recruit her son at any time. It is why she guards him, watches over him and protects him. But one day, Michael does not return from school and she begins a frantic search that will lead her to face her worst fears, finding the way out in the love and solidarity of her people. Cineworks 4:00 pm: Four Seasons of Youth4:00 pm: Four Seasons of Youth ![]() A wannabe movie director films his experience at one of the most important universities in Brazil. As the years go by, we follow the hopes and fears of students facing an unprecedented educational crisis. Cineworks 9:30 pm: When Evil Lurks9:30 pm: When Evil Lurks ![]() 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. The Cinematheque |
September 14, 2024(2 events)
8:00 pm: Vera and the Pleasure of Others8:00 pm: Vera and the Pleasure of Others ![]() ¡Calientico!, a sizzling collaboration between VLAFF and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival In this erotic coming-of-age comedy, 17-year-old Vera runs a secret business renting out an apartment to her classmates who need a place to get intimate. Bored by the banal routine of high school and volleyball practice, she discovers her own sexual desires as she covertly eavesdrops on her classmate’s most private moments. Join us afterwards for the FUEGO/FOGO Cuir Party at THE BIRDHOUSE! International Village 8:30 pm: This Is Ballroom8:30 pm: This Is Ballroom ![]() ¡Calientico!, a sizzling collaboration between VLAFF and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival! On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, the city’s top ballroom houses convene in a sweaty, euphoric competition, in this electrifying portrait of contemporary queer Brazil. Join us afterwards for the FUEGO/FOGO Cuir Party at THE BIRDHOUSE! International Village |
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