2023 OFFICIAL SELECTION
We are excited to welcome you back to a full in-cinema festival experience from Sept 7-17.
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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
CHILE ’76
Dir. Manuela Martelli
(Chile)
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
20th Anniversary Screening of MACHUCA
Aline Küppenheim in attendance
MACHUCA
Dir. Manuela Martelli (Chile, 2004)
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
RULE 34 | REGRA 34
Sol Miranda in attendance (we hope!!)
Winner of the Golden Leopard at the 75th Locarno International Film Festival.
RULE 34
Dir. Júlia Murat
(Brazil)
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.
ABOUT SWIMMING
Dir. Manuela Aguilar & Berenice Vigna (Argentina)ALL THE FLOWERS
Dir. Carmen Oquendo-Villar (Colombia)EL HUATRILA
Dir. Roberto Andrés Flores (Peru)THE SAFEST PLACE IN THE WORLD
Dir. Aline Lata & Helena Wolfenson (Brazil)WET MATCHES
Dir. Sebastián Duque (Colombia)WHEATFIELD
Dir. Anabel Caso (Mexico)
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
BLUE HEART
Dir. Miguel Coyula (Cuba, 2021)VICENTA B.
Dir. Carlos Lechuga
(Cuba, 2022)
RETROSPECTIVE: PAVEL GIROUD
Pavel Giroud in attendance
THE COMPANION
Dir. Pavel Giroud (Cuba, 2015)PLAYING LECUONA
Dir. Pavel Giroud (Cuba, 2016)THE PADILLA AFFAIR
Dir. Pavel Giroud (Cuba, 2022)
INTERNATIONAL HITS
A selection of films that have made a big impact on the festival circuit.
15 WAYS TO KILL YOUR NEIGHBOUR
Petite Fleur
Dir. Santiago Mitre (Argentina)ARGENTINA, 1985
Dir. Santiago Mitre (Argentina)LOVE AND MATHEMATICS
Dir. Claudia Sainte-Luce (Mexico)MACHUCA
Dir. Andrés Wood (Argentina, 2007)
¡ASÍ SUENA! MUSIC IN FILM
CATAPUM: Nowhere to Fall
Dir. Palu Abadia (Colombia/USA)LA DANZA DE LOS MIRLOS
Dir. Álvaro Luque (Peru)
Dir: Pavel Giroud (Cuba)
FIREFLY PROJECT
Live visual poetry and sound performance by composer edgardo moreno
NOCHE MEXICANA
INCOMPLETE LOVERS
Dir. Gilberto González Penilla (Mexico)
FILMS FROM TURTLE ISLAND AND BEYOND
Made by us: Rethinking Indigenous Films
Curated by Akira Iahtail & Masa’n Selene Galindo
A BODY OVER THE SEA
Un cuerpo sobre el mar
Gabriel Gabriel Zhiminaicela & Christian Paúl Espinoza
(Cañari/Ecuador)ATI’T
Tirza Yanira Ixmucané Saloj Oroxom
(Mayan K’iche/Guatemala)CANOE LIFE
Vida canoera
Dir. Ruth Gandara
(Guaraní/Argentina)DRY HAND
Mano seca
Dir. Isis Catrin
(Mapuche/Chile)ÁNIMA
Dir. Manuel Mateo Gómez
(Nasa/Cuba)MANITUSHISS
Virus
Dir. Réal Junior Leblanc
(Innu – Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam/Quebec)Məca
Dir. Ritchie Hemphill & Ryan Haché
(Gwa’sala-’Nakwaxda’xw/Canada)Titration: Radioactive Waste, Princeton, and the Navajo Nation
Dir. michael q ceballos
(Navajo Nation/USA)
FEATURES
MY NON-PLACE
Dir. Isis Alejandra Ahumada Monroy
(Mazateca and Zapoteca community/Mexico)UTAMA
Dir. Alejandro Loayza Grisi (Quechua/Bolivia)
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
Curated by Dani Rodríguez Chevalier & Ana Tonso
All my scars vanish in the wind
Dir. María Angélica Restrepo & Carlos David Velandia (Colombia)Gloria
Dir. Daniela Briceño Bello, Diego Diego Diego, Blanca Castellar (Colombia)Eclipsis
Dir. Tania Hernández Velasco (Mexico)Recuérdame fluir
Dir. Morena Barra (Guatemala)Esto, que llevo dentro
Dir. Enrique Pedraza-Botero
(Colombia/USA)El Torito, a freedom dance
Dir. Roberto Salazar (Mexico)The bathroom is where moths die
Dir. Natalia Andrea Mejías & Fernanda Lagomarsino (Chile)When the Night Comes
Dir. Feguenson Hermogéne
(Cuba)That Camera of Yours
Dir. Juan Restrepo
(Colombia)Madre Nuestra
Dir. David Paredes (Cuba/Colombia)La mutuante
Dir. Carla Scolari & Javier Rossanigo (Argentina)The Last Piece – Essay 1
Dir. Silvana Alarcón (Peru)The Last Magic Trick
Dir. Dario Celestinos (Mexico)Maura Alejandro
Dir. Gabriel Páez (Ecuador)Who’s he?
Dir. Víctor Augusto Mendívil (Peru)
QUEER PIX
Shorts Program: The Ties That Bind
Curated by Kathleen Mullen & Robert Rios
I KILLED LUCCA
Dir. Ana Moreno Hernández
(Mexico)CHAAC AND YUM
Dir. Roberto Fatal
(USA)LOW TIDE
bajamar
Dir. Juana Castro
(Colombia)WISHFUL THINKING
Dir. Rodrigo Carvalhedo
(USA)LOVESICK
Mal de amores
Dir. Fiorella Vescovi Garcia (USA)
LGBTQ2S+ Features
ALL THE FLOWERS
Dir. Carmen Oquendo-Villar
(Colombia)RULE 34
Dir. Júlia Murat
(Brazil)THREE TIDY TIGERS TIED A TIE TIGHTER
Dir. Gustavo Vinagre
(Brazil)
CANADA LOOKS SOUTH
CARLOS FERRAND IN ATTENDANCE
PIRATE MECHANICS OF LIMA
Dir. Carlos Ferrand
(Peru, 1973/2021)CIMARRONES
Dir. Carlos Ferrand
(Peru, 1975/1982)AMERICANO
Dir. Carlos Ferrand
(Peru, 2007)
CANADA LOOKS SOUTH: Features
COYOTE
Dir. Katherine Jerkovic
(Québec)SO MUCH TENDERNESS
Dir. Lina Rodríguez
(Canada/Colombia)
GERMAN GUTIERREZ IN ATTENDANCE
HISTORY WILL JUDGE
L’histoire jugera
Dir. Germán Gutiérrez (Québec/Colombia)
LATIN-CANADIAN SHORTS
(screening before features)
ANYTHING, ALWAYS
Dir. Isabella DagninoCHICHO
Dir. Arlen Aguayo StewartCLOUDS
Dir. Dora PrietoNOBODY CONFESSED I WAS HAUNTED
Dir. Daniela Rodríguez ChevalierPACHO’S VISUAL ARCHIVE
Dir. Blanca Marcela López
PICIFORMES
Dir. Pablo García GarcíaROCA MORENA
Dir. Siam Obregón & Kyana LyneWHAT MOVES THE WAVE?
Dir. Ana Tonso
Shorts Program:
MIGRATION METAMORPHOSES
TIME IN BETWEEN PILLS
El tiempo en las pastillas
Dir. Carol Rodríguez Allende
(Chile/Canada)
AZÚCAR
Dir. Joshua Gunn
(Honduras/USA)WANDERING
Dir. Karla Meza
(Mexico/Quebec)SATURDAY FUEGO DIABLO
Dir. Anita Abbasi
(El Salvador/Quebec)LA TUMBA MAMBI
Dir. Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier & DJ Jigüe
(Cuba/Canada)