2021 OFFICIAL SELECTION

Available for viewing ONLINE on demand across Canada from Aug 26 – Sept 5.
(You have 72 hours to finish watching once you click PLAY.)

We will also be presenting a selection of in-person screenings at The Cinematheque from Aug 27 – Sept 5.
View the schedule here.

Full film descriptions online now.

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NEW DIRECTORS COMPETITION

¡ACTIVISMO!

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

The Best Families

Spotlight on Director Ana Katz

A Diamond is for Viridiana

60th Anniversary –
Screening in 35mm print
and presentation

QUEER LATINX

SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION

Program 1 & Program 2

  • Dribbling
    Dir: Catalina Alarcón (Chile)
  • Gilson
    Dir: Vitoria Di Bonesso (Brazil)
  • In Plain View
    Dir: Luis Palomino Benítez (Thailand/Mexico)
  • Interference
    Dir: Juan Carlos Soto Martínez (Chile)
  • The Intronauta
    Dir: José Arboleda (Colombia)
  • Iridescent
    Dir: Elena Aguilar (Costa Rica)
  • It’s All the Salt’s Fault
    Dir: Maria Cristina Pérez (Colombia)
  • Lumbalú; Agony
    Dir: Jorge Aldair Pérez Cáceres (Colombia)
  • Manchester Acatitla
    Dir: Selma Cervantes (Mexico)
  • Numeric Social Theory
    Dir: Paola Michaels (Colombia/Argentina)
  • Objectified
    Dir. Vanesa Tomasino (El Salvador)
  • One-way Ticket
    Dir: Victor Augusto Mendívil (Peru)
  • The Radio
    Dir: Carlos Novella (Venezuela)
  • Son of Sodom
    Dir: Theo Montoya (Colombia)
  • Twakana Yagán
    Dir: Rodrigo Tenuta & Ignacio Leonidas (Yagan Paiakoala/Argentina)
  • Within moments of silence
    Dir: Bárbara Daniela Moreno Turcott (Mexico)

Short Films

out of competition

  • Alba
    Dir. Elva Arrieta (Peru)
    (screens online with The Best Families)
  • Girl in jungle at sunset
    Tuku
    Dir. Sani Montahuano (Ecuador)
    (screens online with The Whisper of the Marimba)

INDIGENOUS SHORTS PROGRAMS

Future Ancestors: Storytelling as Ceremony

A Matter of Life

Guest Festival: FICWALLMAPU

  • Wüfko
    Dir. Paula Baeza Pailamilla (Mapuche/Chile)
  • Meli
    Dir. Ayelén Lonconao Vargas (Mapuche/Chile)
  • Kuychi Pucha
    Dir. Segundo Fuérez Quilumbaquín (Otavalo/Ecuador)
  • Kiñe Rupa
    Dir. Pewvley taiñ rakizuam (Mapuche/Chile)
  • Ecos del volcán
    Dir. Saul Kak & Charles Fairbanks (Zoque/Mexico)

CANADA LOOKS SOUTH

Latin-Canadian Features:

  • Man and woman sitting on a doorstep in Mexican town
    Fauna
    Dir. Nicolás Pereda
    (Mexico/Canada)

Latin-Canadian Shorts:

  • Woman in dance pose
    Bodies (Cuerpos)
    Dir. Triana Segovia (Vancouver/Mexico)
    (with My Name is Baghdad)
  • Woman swimming underwater in orange dress
    Dreaming in Blue
    Dir. Olga Barrios (Toronto/Colombia)
    (with The Calm After the Storm)
  • Close-up of face of a distressed young woman
    Objectified
    Dir. Vanesa Tomasino (Vancouver/El Salvador)
    (Shorts in Competition)

The Age of Memory

RE-IMAGINING MEXICO:
The Films of Rubén Gámez

Description coming soon!!