2023 OFFICIAL SELECTION

We are excited to welcome you back to a full in-cinema festival experience from Sept 7-17.

View the Calendar at a glance!

Click here see the list of FILMS BY DATE.


OPENING NIGHT FILM

LOVE AND MATHEMATICS

CLOSING NIGHT FILM

CHILE ’76

Nominated for the Caméra d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival.

Lead actress Aline Küppenheim in attendance

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

20th Anniversary Screening of MACHUCA

Aline Küppenheim in attendance

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

RULE 34 | REGRA 34

Sol Miranda in attendance (we hope!!)

Winner of the Golden Leopard at the 75th Locarno International Film Festival.

NEW DIRECTORS COMPETITION

Discover the six Latin American films that will compete for the prize of Best New Director.
A Youth Jury from Canada and Latin America
will award $2,500 to the winning director.

SPOTLIGHT ON CUBA: Sara Gómez

We are thrilled to present a selection of the short films of Sara Gómez, one of the most inventive filmmakers of 1960s post-revolutionary Cuban cinema.

With an introduction by Susan Lord, professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University and co-editor of The Cinema of Sara Gómez: Reframing Revolution.

SPOTLIGHT ON CUBA

RETROSPECTIVE: PAVEL GIROUD

Pavel Giroud in attendance

INTERNATIONAL HITS

A selection of films that have made a big impact on the festival circuit.

¡ASÍ SUENA! MUSIC IN FILM

PLAYING LECUONA
Dir: Pavel Giroud (Cuba)

FIREFLY PROJECT

FIREFLY PROJECT
Live visual poetry and sound performance by composer edgardo moreno

NOCHE MEXICANA

FILMS FROM TURTLE ISLAND AND BEYOND

Made by us: Rethinking Indigenous Films

Curated by Akira Iahtail & Masa’n Selene Galindo

FEATURES

SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION

Program 1

Program 2

Curated by Dani Rodríguez Chevalier & Ana Tonso

QUEER PIX
Shorts Program: The Ties That Bind

Curated by Kathleen Mullen & Robert Rios

LGBTQ2S+ Features

CANADA LOOKS SOUTH

CARLOS FERRAND IN ATTENDANCE

CANADA LOOKS SOUTH: Features

GERMAN GUTIERREZ IN ATTENDANCE

LATIN-CANADIAN SHORTS
(screening before features)

Shorts Program:

MIGRATION METAMORPHOSES

View the calendar schedule!