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Vancouver Latin American Film Festival
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🚨VAFF Giveaway Alert🚨 VLAFF is pleased to be a community partner for the Short Program: WEST COAST TALES 🌊 at this year’s @vaffvancouver and we’re giving away a double ticket! 🎟️🎟️ 👉🏽 To enter: 1.⁠ ⁠Follow @vaffvancouver and @vlaff 2.⁠ ⁠Like this post! 3.⁠ ⁠Tag your cinema-loving friends in the comments. Multiple comments = multiple entries! The winner will be announced this Friday! 😜 A diverse array of heartfelt shorts from the Canadian West Coast. This collection is a beautiful showcase of the myriad of tales colouring the Western Coast of Canada, grappling with subjects ranging from family to identity to belief. 🗓️Nov 8, Sunday | 12:30 pm Program 9: West Coast Tales + Shorts 📍International Village AUD 9 🎞️No Idea - The Musical Dir. Kel Kitagawa | Canada | Short | 15 min 🌟Western Canada Premiere🌟 Katie learns she’s Asian and her middle school universe quickly spins around her. 🎞️Patang Dir. Hasnain Czar | Canada - West Coast/ India | Short | 24 min 🌟Vancouver Premiere🌟 A teenager in a small town of Punjab sets off on a journey of doubt, identity, and self discovery after encountering the ideas from Bhagat Singh’s ‘Why I am an Atheist?’ 🎞️Red Light Rebel Dir. Hannah Yang | Canada - West Coast | Short | 15 min 🌟Vancouver Premiere🌟 A pastor stuck at a red light finds himself at a crossroads with God. 🎞️Queen Mother Dir. King Louie Palomo | Canada - West Coast | Short | 14 min When a mother visits her son, a drag performer, a night of raw confessions forces them to confront the unhealed wounds of their past. 🎞️The Great Wall Dir. Soo Min Park | World Premiere | English, Cantonese | 14 min 🌟World Premiere🌟 Manny, a Filipino troublemaker on a run from his past’s pursuit, finds a disguise as a Chinese restaurant chef where the enthusiastic Caucasian manager Darren hires him to make his restaurant more “authentic.” 🎞️Another Christmas Story Dir. Andrea Bang & Diana Bang | Canada - West Coast | Short | 11 min 🌟Vancouver Premiere🌟 Two young Korean-Canadian sisters navigate the holidays in the 90s, in an immigrant household. 🎟 https://bit.ly/p9vaff30🎟 #VAFF30Years #CommunityPartner #Giveaway #WestCoastFilm by @vlaff
@vaffvancouver is turning 30 🥳 The VANCOUVER ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL is celebrating their 30th ANNIVERSARY from November 5 – 15, 2026! Canada’s longest-running Asian film festival marks three decades of championing Asian diaspora filmmakers and stories. 100 films. 11 days. 78 exclusive premieres 🤯 They’re dropping their largest program in festival history, packed with 50+ Canadian titles, nearly 30 West Coast tales, 40 International films, 18 animations and groundbreaking stories you won’t see anywhere else! From raw coming-of-age journeys to powerful multi-generational sagas, this year’s lineup celebrates the very best in cinema—onsite and online across Canada. Get ready for an unforgettable cinematic run with VAFF 🍿 📲 Explore the full lineup at vaff.org 👀 Stay tuned for a tix giveaway coming soon! #VAFF30Years #VAFF2026 #CommunityPartners #VancouverEvents by @vlaff
This past September we took over the Cinematheque’s Courtyard with @salseo_queer_dance for the first ever ¡Así Bailan! 💃🏽✨at #VLAFF24 🍿🎬 Thanks to our volunteer Diana Galván for the awesome video! 📹 We’re you part of the salsa magic? 👀 #VLAFF2026 #SalsaClass #SalseoVan #VancouverEvents by @vlaff
Last chance to grab your tickets for the Chilemonos Latin American Animation Festival! ⏳🏃🏽‍♀️‍➡️ Secure your free tickets now at chilemonos.cl 🎫✨ Come celebrate Latin American talent and stories right here in Vancouver with our friends from @chilemonos 🙉 The CHILEMONOS Festival is a project funded by the Audiovisual Development Fund 2026 and a management plan financed by the Support Program for Collaborating Cultural Organizations. #Chilemonos #ChilemonosEnVancouver #Animación #Animation by @vlaff
T-minus 10 days to respond to our Audience Survey! 🗯️ Did you join us for the 24th Vancouver Latin American Film Festival? See yourself in these wonderful pics? 🍿 We’d love to hear from you! 📝 Take our audience survey and share your thoughts! You could win a Full Festival Pass or one of two ticket packs for our 25th Anniversary 🥳 🚨The survey closes October 31🚨 🔗Link in bio🔗 Thank you for being part of VLAFF! 📸:@brunocharal #VLAFF24 #VLAFF2026 #AudienceSurvey #VancouverEvents by @vlaff
Recap of my Youth Jury experience at VLAFF 2026! 🎬✨ Being part of the Youth Jury this year was an enriching experience. I’m taking away huge learnings, invaluable film discussions, and wonderful connections with my fellow jurors 💛 Thank you so much to @vlaff for giving me this opportunity and to everyone for making this edition so special. Until next time! 🍿 by @vlaff
SPOOKY SZN is here! 👻 And our friends @horrorinseconds have you covered with a couple of terrifyingly awesome events 🧟 OCT 20: SCREAM QUEENS 👑😱🩸 Did someone say draglesque & 60 second movies? Yes PLEASE! 💅🏾 📍Please Beverage Co. 🎟️ screamqueensdraglesque.eventbrite.ca 🎟️ OCT 28: For the CAT lovers 🐈‍⬛ ❤️‍🔥💀 Don’t miss MEOWLOWEEN movie night with cats 🎬🍿🙀 📍Catoro Cat Café 🎟️meowloween.eventbrite.ca🎟️ Don’t miss out on these horrifically magical events! 🗡️ 📲 More info at horrorinseconds.ca #SpookySeason #CommunityPartners #HorrorInSeconds #VancouverEvents by @vlaff
#ThrowbackThursday to the #VLAFF24 Opening Night Party 🥳 WHAT A NIGHT 💃🏽🪩❤️‍🔥 were you there? 👀 📸: @brunocharal by @vlaff
🪸ARTIVISM: MORE THAN HUMAN🪸 Running till October 16, @exposure_ubc invites audiences to dare to listen to our ecologies through the 10th edition of ARTIVISM: More Than Human 🌎✨ ARTIVISM is Exposure UBC’s flagship arts and culture festival 🌟A student-led arts organization bringing together artists, thinkers, ecologists and communities to explore ways of knowing that exist beyond the human 🪱 Rooted in the belief that knowledge, memory and meaning live in the ecologies around us, More Than Human asks an urgent question: What becomes possible when we stop placing our ways of knowing at the centre? Through visual art, live performance, sound, film, workshops and community-led projects, this year’s festival explores multispecies thinking, the climate crisis, sensory and embodied practice, and the possibilities of building futures rooted in reciprocity and care 🌱🐝🌊 ✨ UPCOMING PROGRAMMING: 📚 Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor: End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World Thursday, Oct. 8 @ 7 PM UBC Centre for Climate Justice How can we resist the pervasive belief in impending doom while defending human dignity and imagining futures rooted in collective care, solidarity and hope? 🎟️ $30+ 🎨 More Than Human: Exhibition Oct. 9–30 • FREE Exposure x Hatch Art Gallery An exhibition rooted in the belief that knowledge, memory and meaning live in the ecologies around us. 🥒 Pickling Workshop Friday, Oct. 16 Join Roots on the Roof at the AMS Nest to explore the relationship between humans, microorganisms and the land through the practice of pickling. 🌈 Wonderland: More Than Human Friday, Oct. 16 • FREE Celebrate the finale of ARTIVISM’s 10th annual festival! 🌿 Follow @exposure_ubc & @artivismfest for more details, updates and announcements from ARTIVISM: More Than Human 🥒 We’re proud to connect our VLAFF community with artists and cultural organizers creating space for different ways of seeing, listening and knowing 💚 #CommunityPartners #ARTIVISM #MoreThanHuman #ArtsAndCulture by @vlaff
From October 9–11, 2026, Brazilian cinema takes over TIFF Lightbox for three days of films, stories, and voices from Brazil on the big screen. Vancouver Latin American Film Festival is proud to partner with Brazil Film Fest Toronto for its 18th edition, giving our community the opportunity to discover some of the most exciting Brazilian cinema of the year. This year also marks the launch of the BFFT Short Film Program, with a selected short film opening each feature presentation throughout the festival — bringing even more Brazilian and Brazilian Canadian talent to the TIFF Lightbox screen. As part of the partnership, our community can use the special code BFFT2026 to receive 10% off festival tickets. 📅 October 9–11, 2026 📍 TIFF Lightbox | Toronto 🎟️ Tickets & Program: https://brazilfilmfest.ca/ 🏷️ Partner Code: BFFT2026 — 10% off festival tickets #BrazilFilmFestToronto #BFFT2026 #BrazilianCinema #BrazilianFilm #CinemaBrasileiro by @vlaff
🚨LAST VIFF Giveaway Alert🚨 VLAFF is pleased to co-present JARIPEO (Dirs. Efraín Mojica & Rebecca Zweig, Mexico/USA/France 🇲🇽🇺🇸🇫🇷) at this year’s @viffest and we’re giving away double tickets! 🎟️🎟️ 👉🏽 To enter: 1. Follow @viffest and @vlaff 2. Like this post! 3. Tag your cinema-loving friends in the comments. Multiple comments = multiple entries! The winner will be announced this Tuesday! 😜 Every Christmas in Penjamillo, Michoacán, the jaripeo — a rodeo of bull riding, horses, music, drinking and dust — becomes the town’s public theatre of masculinity 🐎 But beneath the machismo is a queer world of coded glances, secret hookups, desire and double lives 🌈 Co-directed by Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig, JARIPEO looks at the rodeo as both ritual and cover, revealing a community making space for queer desire inside a tradition that was never quite as straight as it pretended to be. Premiering in Sundance’s NEXT section before screening in Berlinale Panorama, this bold and intimate documentary brings together tradition, queer desire and the spectacle of the rodeo in a film unlike anything else at VIFF 🔥 🎬 JARIPEO Dirs. Efraín Mojica & Rebecca Zweig | Mexico/USA/France 🇲🇽🇺🇸🇫🇷 | 2026 | 70 min Spanish & English with English subtitles | 18+ SCREENINGS: 📍 International Village 8: Wed, Oct 7 - 10:45 AM 📍 VIFF Centre: Sat, Oct 10 - 9:00 PM Good luck! 🐎🌈🎬 Browse the full #VIFF2026 lineup at viff.org! #Documentary #MexicanFilm #Giveaway by @vlaff
Another VIFF Giveaway Alert‼️ VLAFF is pleased to co-present WHERE THE RIVER BEGINS (Donde Comienza el Río, Dir. Juan Andrés Arango, Colombia/Canada/Norway 🇨🇴🇨🇦🇳🇴) at this year’s @viffest 💫 and we’re giving away double tickets! 🎟️🎟️ 👉🏽 To enter: 1. Follow @viffest and @vlaff 2. Like this post! 3. Tag your cinema-loving friends in the comments. Multiple comments = multiple entries! Winners will be announced tomorrow! 😜 After fleeing her village deep in the jungle because of paramilitary violence, Yajaira, a young Indigenous mother, is trying to build a life for herself and her daughter María in Bogotá. But when violence finds them again, she makes the decision to return home… joined by Jhon, a young gang member with his own urgent reason to escape 🌿🏙️ Moving between the grit and desperation of the city and the lush imposing beauty of the jungle, Juan Andrés Arango’s hypnotic new film explores displacement, family, survival and the powerful pull of home. A deeply immersive journey through Colombia’s landscapes and the people who inhabit them 🌊 🎬 WHERE THE RIVER BEGINS Dir. Juan Andrés Arango | Colombia/Canada/Norway 🇨🇴🇨🇦🇳🇴 | 2026 | 102 min Spanish & Emberá with English subtitles SCREENINGS: 📍 Fifth Avenue Cinema: Fri, Oct 2 - 8:45 PM 📍 International Village 8: Sun, Oct 4 - 12:45 PM ⚠️ Friday’s screening at Fifth Avenue is 19+ only; Sunday’s International Village screening is open to youth. Browse the full #VIFF2026 lineup at viff.org! #VIFF2026 #LatinCanadian #Cinema #TicketGiveaway by @vlaff

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