The 14th edition of the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival is pleased to announce its complete 2016 film selection.
More than 60 films will take part in the Festival, highlighting the important presence of Brazilian cinema, as they are our guest country of honour this year. We are also pleased to announce a new section called ¡Activismo!, made up of films that discuss political and social movements in Latin America.
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OPENING NIGHT
I Promise You Anarchy (Te prometo anarquía)
Dir: Julio Hernández Cordón
Mexico
CLOSING NIGHT
Don’t Call Me Son (Mãe só há uma)
Dir: Anna Muylaert
Brazil
NEW DIRECTORS
Road to La Paz (Camino a La Paz)
Dir: Francisco Varone
Argentina
Hopefuls (Aspirantes)
Dir: Ives Rosenfeld
Brazil
Neon Bull (Boi neon)
Dir: Gabriel Mascaro
Brazil
Ixcanul
Dir: Jayro Bustamante
Guatemala
The Greatest House in the World (La casa más grande del mundo)
Dir: Ana V. Bojórquez & Lucía Carreras
Guatemala/Mexico
Violencia
Dir: Jorge Forero
Colombia
Ditches (Zanjas)
Dir: Francisco Joaquín Paparella
Argentina
INTERNATIONAL HITS
The Clan
Dir: Pablo Trapero
Argentina
Embrace of the Serpent (El abrazo de la serpiente)
Dir: Ciro Guerra
Colombia
El Club
Dir: Pablo Larraín
Chile
Desierto
All the screenings of Desierto have been cancelled.
Dir: Jonás Cuarón
Mexico
The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar)
Dir: Patricio Guzmán
Chile
Liveforever (Que viva la música)
Dir: Carlos Moreno
Colombia
Much Ado About Nothing (Aquí no ha pasado nada)
Dir: Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Chile
Magallanes
Dir: Salvador del Solar
Peru
Truman
Dir: Cesc Gay
Argentina/Spain
Viva
Dir: Paddy Breathnach
Cuba/Ireland
A Monster with a Thousand Heads (Un monstruo de mil cabezas)
Dir: Rodrigo Plá
Mexico
¡ACTIVISMO!
Time Suspended (El tiempo suspendido)
Dir: Natalia Bruschtein
Mexico/Argentina
Pepe Mujica: Lessons from the Flowerbed
Dir: Heidi Specogna
Uruguay/Germany
A Day in Ayotzinapa 43 (Un día en Ayotzinapa 43)
Dir: Rafael Rangel
Mexico
The Hyperwomen (As hiper mulheres)
Dir: Carlos Fausto, Leonardo Sette & Takumã Kuikuro
RETROSPECTIVE: ANNA MUYLAERT
Don’t Call Me Son (Mãe só há uma)
The Second Mother (Que horas ela volta?)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (É proibido fumar)
Durval Records (Durval Discos)
While my guitar gently weeps (E além de tudo me deixou mudo o violão)
The Origin of Babies (A origem dos bebês segundo Kiki Cavalcanti)
GLAUBER ROCHA: A GENERATION OF WILD DREAMS
Black God, White Devil (Deus e o diabo na terra do sol)
Dir: Glauber Rocha
1964
Entranced Earth (Terra em transe)
Dir: Glauber Rocha
1967
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
Program 1
Program 2
Bestboy (Reflectorista)
Dir: David Nazareno
Argentina
Mila
Dir: Oscar Enríquez
Mexico
Frank the Indomitable (Frank el indomable)
Dir: Andrés Eichelmann Kaiser
Mexico
Day of ashes (Día de la ceniza)
Dir: Daniel Romero
Ecuador
Absent (Ausente)
Dir: Joaquín Baus
Chile
Seeing you again (Volverte a ver)
Dir: Abraham Escobedo Salas
Mexico
So as not to forget (Para não esquecer)
Dir: Rafael de Almeida
Brazil
Bulletproof (A prueba de balas)
Dir: Hector Bustamante
Mexico
New Moon (Lua nova)
Dir: Andrea Prado
Brazil
Fantastic
Dir: Tomas Sposato
Argentina
Normal
Dir: Vadim Lasca
Venezuela
Amphibian (Anfibio)
Dir: Héctor Silva Núñez
Venezuela
Atotô
Dir: Bruno Laet
Brazil
Come back (Volver)
Dir: Iván Luna
Colombia
Fire-water (It Yagutp)
Dir: Tomás Faiman
Argentina
CANADA LOOKS SOUTH
He Hated Pigeons (with live score by Morning Show)
Dir: Ingrid Veninger
Our Forest Moon (Nuestro Monte Luna)
Dir: Pablo Alvarez-Mesa
Malecon 51
Dir: Jean-Guillaume Caplain & Francis Delfour
Abyss (Abismo)
Dir: Pablo Diconca
Acá Nada / Acá Elsewhere
Dir: Sarah Shamash
The DNA of Ceviche
Dir: Orlando Arriagada
The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park
Dir: Juan Manuel Sepúlveda
INDIGENOUS SHORTS – Canada
Assini
Dir: Gail Maurice
The Black Case (La mallette noire)
Dir: Caroline Monnet & Daniel Watchorn
Clouds of Autumn
Dir: Trevor Mack & Matthew Taylor Blais
Mia’
Dir: Amanda Strong & Bracken Hanuse Corlett
Pearl
Elisa Moar & Meky Ottawa
Without Words
Jules Koostachin
INDIGENOUS SHORTS – Brazil
Kene Yuxi, as voltas do Kene
Dir: Zezinho Yube
Mbya Mirim
Dir: Patrícia Ferreira & Ariel Duarte Ortega
The Hyperwomen (As hiper mulheres)
Dir: Carlos Fausto, Leonardo Sette & Takumã Kuikuro
