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(1 event)
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 |
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(2 events)
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 8:15 pm: Cassandro8:15 pm: Cassandro Gael García Bernal stars as Saúl “Cassandro” Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso, Texas, who rose to international stardom when he created the character Cassandro, the "Liberace of Lucha Libre." In doing so he not only upended the macho wrestling world, but also his own life. Also stars Bad Bunny! The Cinematheque |
September 11, 2024(2 events)
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 8:15 pm: Fields of Presence8:15 pm: Fields of Presence Director Jorge Lozano in attendance. "This poetic experimental documentary is a tribute to my daughter, Briana Sarita, and her multifaceted life, a collaborative reflection intertwining fiction film archives, acting, and photographs to evoke memories and breathe life into moments and events. Her singing serves as a connecting thread, offering parallel interpretations. The film explores events since 1978, employing a non-chronological and non-linear approach, providing a unique artistic perspective. Shot in Colombia, Spain, and Costa Rica, it culminates in Victoria, BC, where she was tragically murdered in March 2021. However, the film focuses on celebrating her life and her essence employing diverse formats, including super 8mm, VHS, Super VHS, 3/4″, 4K HD, Drone 5K video, GoPro, and Instant 360." The Cinematheque |
September 12, 2024(1 event)
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 |
September 13, 2024(1 event)
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 |
September 14, 2024(1 event)
4:15 pm: Open Sky4:15 pm: Open Sky 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 |
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