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

  • Opening Night: La Suprema

    Opening Night: La Suprema


    September 5, 2024

    Director Felipe Holguín Caro in attendance!
    A feisty teenage girl dreams of being a boxer, but life is not making it easy for her. She lives in the remote community of La Suprema, so remote, in fact, that it's not even on the map. When she learns that her estranged uncle is going to be boxing for the World Championship, she becomes obsessed with watching the match... There's just one hitch: no one in the village has a TV and there's no electricity for miles.
    Winner of the Audience Award at FICCI - Cartagena Film Festival, 2024

    SFU Woodward's
    149 West Hastings Street
    3rd Floor
    Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4
    Canada
    Opening Night Party

    Opening Night Party


    September 5, 2024

    Wasakaka All Stars singing on stage

    Join us for the Opening Party at a new venue this year... THE PEARL at 881 Granville Street!! Featuring music by Ypsilone, followed by the irresistible salsa beats of the Wasakaka All Stars!!

    881 Granville St
    Vancouver, BC V6Z 1L1
    Canada
  • Skin in Spring

    Skin in Spring


    September 6, 2024

    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
    1131 Howe Street
    Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
    Tomorrow Before After/Mañana antes después

    Tomorrow Before After/Mañana antes después


    September 6, 2024

    Director Alfonso Quijada in attendance!
    In a post-apocalyptic world, a young woman, with the help of an abandoned dog, searches for other survivors while trying to cope with an unborn child growing inside of her.

    6:15 pm: English narration
    8:30 pm: Spanish narration with English subtitles

    The Cinematheque
    1131 Howe Street
    Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
    Mañana antes después/Tomorrow Before After

    Mañana antes después/Tomorrow Before After


    September 6, 2024

    Director Alfonso Quijada in attendance!
    In a post-apocalyptic world, a young woman, with the help of an abandoned dog, searches for other survivors while trying to cope with an unborn child growing inside of her.

    6:15 pm: English narration
    8:30 pm: Spanish narration with English subtitles

    The Cinematheque
    1131 Howe Street
    Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
  • La Suprema (with Kuayé)

    La Suprema (with Kuayé)


    September 7, 2024

    Repeat screening of LA SUPREMA. Preceded by the short film KUAYÉ (13 min).
    A short documentary film filled with the rhythm, flavour, and joy of the music of the Colombian Pacific. Fredy “Sebastián” Cuero, charismatic artist and marimba player, guides us from Guapi, Cauca, to Cali with his contagious smile and optimism, and his dream of being one of the best players in the world.

    The Cinematheque
    1131 Howe Street
    Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
    Igualada (with Three Rooms)

    Igualada (with Three Rooms)


    September 7, 2024

    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
    1131 Howe Street
    Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
  • Paths of Bulla and Tambó / Al Sabor Afro

    Paths of Bulla and Tambó / Al Sabor Afro


    September 8, 2024

    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
    1131 Howe Street
    Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
  • The Soldier's Lagoon

    The Soldier's Lagoon


    September 9, 2024

    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
    1131 Howe Street
    Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
  • Skin in Spring

    Skin in Spring


    September 10, 2024

    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
    1131 Howe Street (entrance in back lane)
    Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
  • Bridges Over the Sea (with Teresa's Choice)

    Bridges Over the Sea (with Teresa's Choice)


    September 11, 2024

    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.

    Preceded by the short film TERESA'S CHOICE with director Marlene Castaños in attendance.

    The Cinematheque
    1131 Howe Street
    Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
  • Open Sky (with The Vampires of Poverty)

    Open Sky (with The Vampires of Poverty)


    September 12, 2024

    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)
    A classic film of Colombian cinema by directors Carlos Mayolo & Luis Opsina that simulates being a documentary about filmmakers who exploit misery with mercantilist purposes. It is a scathing criticism of “porno-misery” and the opportunism of the dishonest documentary making “socio-political documentaries” in the third world to sell them in Europe and win prizes.

    Cineworks
    1131 Howe Street (entrance in back lane)
    Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
  • Bridges Over the Sea

    Bridges Over the Sea


    September 13, 2024

    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
    1131 Howe Street (entrance in back lane)
    Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
  • Open Sky

    Open Sky


    September 14, 2024

    Director Felipe Esparza Pérez in attendance!

    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.

    The Cinematheque
    1131 Howe Street
    Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
    🔥FUEGO / FOGO Cuir Party 🔥

    🔥FUEGO / FOGO Cuir Party 🔥


    September 14, 2024

    Voguing. DJs. Gogo Dancers. Brazilian Batucada. Come party Latine Queer/Cuir style with VLAFF and VQFF! This night promises a fiery lineup of Latine excellence. Come hungry, Boteco Brazil will be waiting for you with delicious bites to fuel your tank so that the flame of perreo burns all night long. Somebody call 911, there’ll be fire burning on the dancefloor.

    VQFF Passholders, VLAFF Passholders, and ticket holders from the following screenings get free entry: Queer Pix: QUERIDE, THIS IS BALLROOM, and VERA AND THE PLEASURE OF OTHERS. Show your physical pass/ticket or digital ticket at the door for entry.

    The Birdhouse
    44 West 4th Avenue
    Vancouver, BC V5Y 1G3
    Canada