40 Ariel Nominations Across 9 Films at VLAFF 2026
At VLAFF, we are very proud to present, during our upcoming 24th edition, nine films that have recently received a combined 40 nominations for the Ariel Awards, presented by the […]
The Blue Trail
Tereza, 77, has lived her whole life in a small industrialised town in the Amazon, until one day she receives an official government order to relocate to a senior housing […]
Our Body is an Expanding Star
Semillites and Tania, two queer siblings bound by a powerful friendship, journey through the brown terrain of their own bodies – lands they once rejected. They traverse landscapes of skin, […]
The Devil Smokes
Mexico City, mid-90s. After the sudden disappearance of their parents, five siblings are left in the care of their grandmother. As they struggle to survive, the line between reality and […]
The Reserve
While most of the inhabitants of Monte Virgen struggle to collect their coffee, the forest ranger Julia discovers that a group of illegal loggers is destroying the Reserve. Determined to […]
It Would Be Night In Caracas
Trapped in a city on the verge of collapse, 38-year-old Adelaida buries her mother and is left completely alone. In the streets of Caracas, protests are brutally crushed. When she […]
The Blue Trail
Tereza, 77, has lived her whole life in a small industrialised town in the Amazon, until one day she receives an official government order to relocate to a senior housing […]
Chronicle of a City
A patchwork of millions of lives, urban spaces are not only streets and concrete. They are where our dreams and deepest worries unfold. Chronicle of a City drifts and strolls […]
Vainilla
“A poignant, compelling film that establishes Hermosillo as one of the most exciting new voices in contemporary Mexican cinema.” In the late 1980s, a family of seven women in northern […]
Newborn
When their first baby is born with both female and male features, a young couple faces a huge dilemma: while he thinks they should assign a sex surgically to their […]