Category: Lataff 2018 Program

A fiery melodrama inspired by the life of actress, singer and dancer Tita Merello, I Tita, A Life of Tango takes this fascinating figure from the golden age of Argentine cinema and gives her life story the sweeping treatment it deserves. Born Laura Ana Merello, Read More …

Afraid to face upcoming parenthood and the ultimate deadline for his long-awaited novel, a once-promising writer develops a crush on a defiant muse, the 16-year-old girl next door, and escapes into a second adolescence, alienating his partner and those who care about him before finally Read More …

In Cumaragues, Venezuela, an elderly father, Evaristo, and his pubescent children, Enrique (13) and Maria (16), survive by harvesting salt from the sea. After the father dies, they live alone. Isolated from the outside world they become increasingly distanced, whilst their lust starts to blossom. Read More …

A filmmaker loses her sight — and shares her journey to regain her voice and her art. In a moving first-person documentary, a Chilean-born filmmaker now living in Canada confronts her impending blindness. Chronicling her struggles and her return home to Chile, she reunites with Read More …

These digital stories were made by a group of Latinx Transgender women in a workshop facilitated by StoryCentre Canada and the Centre for Spanish Speaking Peoples’ Trans Latina Ontario group (TLO). They tell the vulnerable and often under-heard stories of these migrant transwomen from all Read More …

In January of 2013, a Canadian mining executive is kidnapped in Colombia by the National Liberation Army.  With a leftist guerrilla group claiming responsibility, similar kidnappings have become commonplace as international mining companies clash with local landowners. Take a revealing look at Canadian mining practices Read More …

This compelling documentary follows 6 families that have migrated from Latin American countries, including Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, Cuba, El Salvador and Colombia, to some of the coldest rural areas, or unusual places in Canada: be it for work, love or adventure. Despite the severe temperatures Read More …

Written and drected by Ruth Caudeli, and starring Silvia Varón and Alejandra Lara, Eva & Candela (¿Cómo te llamas?) faces the end of their relationship. They met and fell in love but what brought them together would separate them. Their professional dreams would become their Read More …

Directed by Patricia Chica and starring Jordana Lajoie, Zoé De Grand Maison, Kristian Hodko, Joey Scarpellino and Thomas Vallieres, Morning After centers on a group of sexually fluid friends spending an explorative night together. A short film from director Patricia Chica, it delves into the subject Read More …

A documentary about the violence in Mexico told from the word of those who have suffered the pain, such as gardeners, bakers, waiters, taxi drivers and journalists, to mention a few and ask for political asylum in the United States and those who make the Read More …

Simon and Samuel are two Cuban kids who will experience the defeat of the Spanish Army in their country and the ensuing US occupation in 1898 as an intense period of their lives. Written and directed by Jorge Luis Sánchez, starring Jo Adrian Haavind, Isabel Read More …

Óscar Arnulfo Romero was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador, who served as the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador. He spoke out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations, and torture. In 1980, Romero was assassinated while offering Mass in the chapel of the Read More …

During the civil war of El Salvador back in the decade of the 80’s a horrific murder took place. The documentary The Dark Hands of Oblivion tells the story of the murder of three American nuns, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Dorothy Kazel and the missionary Read More …

“The five [stars] give remarkable performances in very juicy roles” eCartelera It’s Christmas Eve in Lima and the Del Solar family are getting together for the first time in over two years. Leonardo Del Solar, a powerful politician who always paid more attention to his Read More …

Emerging from twenty years locked away in jail, Johnny must now confront a heartless society to ensure that the son he never knew does not go down the same criminal path that he took in his youth. Johnny must venture from Santiago’s gritty underworld to Read More …

“I was born with the Sandinista Revolution (1979-1989) and grew up under the fear and fascination over the war and military power of the U.S. My parents fell in love in the midst of the struggle against the Somocista Dictatorship. With them, I experienced the Read More …

A film about the perfect sport, baseball. A “universal, inspirational message,” 108 Costuras is a family-oriented story about “friendship and the pursuit of one’s dreams.” It was co-written and produced by certified baseball fan Gastón Pavlovich and directed by Fernando Kalife. The plot follows the story Read More …