Vancouver Latin American Film Festival., 420/111 Hastings Street West, Vancouver, BC (2026)

The Vancouver Latin American Film Festival (VLAFF) is a registered charitable organization celebrating contemporary Latin American, Latin-Canadian, and Indigenous filmmaking since 2003.

🎭 Our Mission: To exhibit and promote Latin American cinema in Canada, showcasing works from emerging and established independent filmmakers across fiction, documentary, experimental, and hybrid narratives.

🗓️ An

nual Festival: Every September, we present an inspiring 11-day celebration of cutting-edge cinema, featuring:

New Directors Competition
Shorts in Competition
Future Ancestors: Indigenous Cinema
¡Activismo! (Social Justice Films)
Queer Latinx Programming
Canada Looks South

👥 Community: Over 100 dedicated volunteers and a Youth Jury of 20-30 students who engage in dialogue with filmmakers

✨ Special Events: Year-round programming that encourages dialogue among cultures and celebrates the art of Latin American storytelling

🏆 23rd Edition: September 4-14, 2025

Join us in exploring the vibrant world of Latin American cinema!

06/23/2026

🎬 What was the most impactful workshop for you?
We asked our 2026 VLAFF Emerging Programmers.

Here they look back on the six-month journey behind In Between Wounds and Weavings: learning how to analyze a film, how to curate a program, and how to trust their own voice along the way.

This showcase is the result of a six-month mentorship program created and developed by Valentina Acevedo Montilla and Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier, with over 18 expert mentors. Hear what it meant, straight from the cohort 🎧
📍 The Cinematheque, 1181 Howe St. 🗓️ June 23rd, 6:00 PM 🎟️ Few tickets left at the link in bio

🍿 ¡Nos vemos en el cine! 🍿 Nos encontramos no cinema 🍿

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06/20/2026

🎬 Cinema always tastes better with good food 🍴 This edition of our Emerging Latine Creator Showcase comes with a flavour of Brazil. We’re teaming up with to bring authentic Brazilian food to our In Between Wounds and Weavings screening. Come for the short films, stay for the coxinhas, pão de queijo and brigadeiros everyone talks about!

One full Latine night: stories on the screen and community around the table 😋

📍 The Cinematheque
🗓️ June 23rd
🎟️ Tickets at the link in bio
Tag the friend you’re bringing and tell us: what’s your go-to Brazilian dish? 👇

06/17/2026

🎬 In Between Wounds and Weavings Vol. VII: Hedgehog 🦔

Highlighting loneliness, connection, and the screens we hide behind, our Emerging Programmers present a surreal experimental short by Mexican filmmaker Tadeo Morales.

🦔 Hedgehog follows Nora, a chronically online recluse who has pushed away everyone who ever cared about her. Months after losing her last friend, she must face her fear of other people on a nightmarish journey with only a digital avatar at her side.

🎥 Tadeo Morales is a Mexican editor, director, and post-production supervisor whose short films, series, and music videos have screened at festivals around the world. His work leans into the surreal and the experimental, often built with alternative technologies.

Screening June 23rd at The Cinematheque 🍿 Grab your tickets at the link in bio 🎟️

06/16/2026

🎬 In Between Wounds and Weavings Vol. VI: Kaira and the Temporal Twist ⏳
Highlighting memory, resistance, and the histories power tries to erase, our Emerging Programmers present a dystopian sci-fi short by Brazilian filmmaker Wagner Nogueira Mendes.
⏳ In a future where the Chronos Machine-Metropolis controls every life and wipes out all memory of resistance, young Kaira hides from constant surveillance. Inspired by the forgotten struggles of those before her, she must become the living memory who reignites a people’s lost history.

🎥 Wagner Nogueira Mendes is a screenwriter and director from the outskirts of Ceará, Brazil, with a background in animation and visual arts. He worked as a storyboard artist on the features Motel Destino and Pacarrete, directed the short Alienígena and the feature Terra Natal (in post-production), and has written for the Netflix series Se Avexe Não. His scripts Filha de uma Mãe and Minino Jesus were both semifinalists at FRAPA, Latin America’s biggest screenwriting festival.

Screening June 23rd at The Cinematheque 🍿
📲Grab your tickets at the link in bio 🎟️

06/14/2026

🎬 In Between Wounds and Weavings Vol. V: Molinuco💧
Highlighting grief, memory, and the places that hold our dead, our Emerging Programmers present a tender Super-8 short by Ecuadorian filmmaker Andrés Flores Paredes.
💧Molinuco follows a family returning to the waterfall where they once let their mother’s ashes go, hoping to feel her soul and be held by her presence once more.

🎥 Andrés Flores Paredes is an Ecuadorian filmmaker, screenwriter, and executive producer at the independent company OYEHAZCINE. Shot on Super-8mm, Molinuco received support from Ecuador’s National Film Archive for its digitization. He is currently developing Amen no Amén, a fantasy feature about a crisis of faith in times of tragedy.

Screening June 23rd at The Cinematheque 🍿 Grab your tickets at the link in bio 🎟️

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420/111 Hastings Street West
Vancouver, BC
V6B1H4

Website

https://vlaff.org/

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