Submissions for the 2013 festival have now closed. Nuestra convocatoria ha sido cerrada, la selección de películas se anunciará a mediados de junio.

Thanks to everyone who applied. Film selection will be announced in mid June.

Our next "Best of VLAFF" screening is coming up on April 16th! We will be presenting the Brazilian documentary, THE HYPERWOMEN, winner of the Best Documentary Award at VLAFF 2012.

If you purchase your ticket between now and April 9th, you will receive a second ticket free!

VLAFF's spring fundraiser will take place on Sunday, April 7th and this year we are shaking things up with a Zumba® Fitness fundraising party. Six local Zumba® Fitness Instructors will get us moving for an afternoon of pure dance fun!

We are happy to bring back the Argentine time-travelling comedy Darling, I'm going out for cigarettes and will be right back for the March 19 screening of the "Best of VLAFF" series. VLAFF first screened this film at our 10th Anniversary Festival as part of a retrospective on directors Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn and screenwriter Andrés Duprat.

The Vancouver Latin American Film Festival is now accepting submissions for its Short Film Competition, Al Jazeera Documentary Award and Competition for First-Time Directors of a Feature-Length Narrative Film.

The deadline for all submissions is May 3, 201

Please click on the links below for the guidelines for each competition.

We are very happy to announce that the 2013 edition of our monthly screening series, "The Best of VLAFF" will kick off on Sunday, February 17th with the Mexican film, Expiration Date (Fecha de caducidad). The screening will take place at 6pm at The Cinematheque.