¡CALIENTICO!
VLAFF X VQFF
Hot off the creative press comes ¡Calientico!, a sizzling collaboration between VLAFF and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. Join us for a fiery day of programming igniting with our Queer Pix Shorts Program: Queride. After, keep fanning the flame with a choice between two feature-length films that will set your heart ablaze: Vera and the Pleasure of Others or This is Ballroom. As night falls, the heat rises with Fuego/Fogo, a not-to-be-missed party with live music, DJs, voguing and go go dancers!
Come celebrate queer/cuir Latine and local talent with us!
FEATURES
Vera and the Pleasure of Others

In this erotic coming-of-age comedy, Vera, a resourceful 17-year-old, steals keys from her real estate agent mother to run a secret business renting out an apartment to her classmates who need a place to get intimate for a few hours. Bored by the banal routine of high school and volleyball practice, she discovers a thrilling outlet in her side hustle as she covertly eavesdrops on her clients’ most private moments. Listening to other people’s pleasure unexpectedly allows Vera to gain an understanding of her own desires. But just as she’s starting to develop a sexual appetite of her own, Vera’s pleasure gets interrupted.
This is Ballroom

Ballroom filmmakers Juru e Vitã, explore Rio de Janeiro’s unique Ballroom scene and House culture. For this ambitious project, the filmmakers organized a special event inviting Rio’s top Ballroom artists, representing 11 Houses from the city centre and beyond. Led by prominent 2SLGBTQIA+ Afro-Brazilian performers, the Houses appear as chosen families for queer, trans, nonbinary and Black bodies who find in this tight community a life-affirming space. Mixing elements of local traditions, popular culture and North American influences, Rio’s Ballroom artists cook up their unique flavours of voguing, performance, music, fashion and dance, infused by the lived experiences of a resilient community pushing back against a racist, patriarchal state. Through electrifying performances and candid interviews, this insider look offers an authentic portrait of Rio’s vibrant Ballroom community, including the celebrations, the dramas and the shade.
QUEER PIX SHORTS: Queride
Curated by Kathleen Mullen and Charlie Hidalgo
Queride—Darling in English— brings together five fierce filmmakers from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico to celebrate queer, trans, and non-binary stories. With fresh insights, these heartwarming films explore complex and intimate relationships, sharing insights into LGBTQIA+ Latine ways of loving, letting go, and finding joy with friends, lovers, and family.

Desert Lights
Cura Sana
Seahorse
El Paisa
Lolo
Dir. Katherina Harder
Dir. Lucía G. Romero
Dir. Leo Tabosa
Dir. Daniel E. Carrera
Dir. Ana Gutiérrez Salgado
🔥FUEGO / FOGO Cuir Party🔥
SATURDAY | SEP 14 | 10PM-2AM | THE BIRDHOUSE
Voguing. DJs. Gogo Dancers. Brazilian Batucada. Come party Latine Queer/Cuir style with VLAFF and VQFF! This night promises a fiery lineup of Latine excellence. Come hungry, Boteco Brazil will be waiting for you with delicious bites to fuel your tank so that the flame of perreo burns all night long. Somebody call 911, there’ll be fire burning on the dancefloor.
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