The best of Latin American Cinema in Toronto
Ecuador, 2025Directed by Pablo Arturo SuárezIn Spanish with English subtitles, 90 min Sunday October 26, 2025, 7 PMInnis Town Hall Sebastián is fired from his job as a university professor for having a romantic relationship with a student. Unemployed, he tries to regain control of Read More …
Colombia, 2024Directed by Patricia CastañedaIn Spanish with English subtitles, 100 min Sunday October 26, 2025, 5 PMInnis Town Hall Estimados señores tells the silenced story of Esmeralda Arboleda, the first woman to challenge the Colombian Congress from within. A brilliant lawyer in the 1950s, Esmeralda Read More …
Special Presentation Sunday October 26, 2025, 3 pmInnis Town Hall Guazuvirá Uruguay, 2023Directed by Joaquín Araujo and Nicolás SequeiraSpanish with subtitles in English21 min. 46 sec. Twelve-year-old Juana smokes and claims to be pregnant. At the end of an immutable summer, she wanders between absence Read More …
Venezuela, 2024Directed by Daniel Yegres RichardIn Spanish with English and French subtitles, 127 min Saturday October 25, 2025, 7 PMInnis Town Hall This is a biographical film about the Venezuelan singer-songwriter Alí Primera. It narrates the historical events that led him to be known as Read More …
Saturday October 25, 2025, 5 pmInnis Town Hall 1(888)242-2100 Canada, 2024Directed by Eliana Aleman ReateguiSpanish and English with English subtitles3 min. 27 sec. A brief story of the filmmaker’s prolongated struggles with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada Client Support Centre services. Una breve historia de Read More …
Saturday October 25, 2025, 3 pmInnis Town Hall Home, Sick Home Canada, 2024Directed by Jamlec DavidSpanish and English with subtitles12 min. Home, Sick Home follows the journey of Stacy, a spirited Dominican girl whose life takes an unexpected turn when she moves to Canada to Read More …
Brasil, 2024Directed by Milena TimesIn Portuguese with English subtitles, 77 min Friday October 24, 2025, 6.30 PMCentre for Social InnovationCineforum Janaína is an 18-year-old girl who lives with her mother and her grandmother in a housing complex on the outskirts of Recife, northeastern Brazil. Three Read More …
Peru, 2023Directed by Marco PanatonicIn Quechua and Spanish with English and Spanish subtitles, 157 min Sunday October 19, 2025, 7 PMInnis Town Hall Atoqcha travels between his home in the mountains where his mother lives and the city of Cusco, looking for a place to Read More …
Mexico, 2023Directed by Alejandro Gerber BicecciIn Spanish with English subtitles, 107 min Sunday October 19, 2025, 5 PMInnis Town Hall Dalia discovers that her husband has vanished without a trace. As her life and her job as a subway driver begin to collapse; the violent Read More …
Chile, 2024Directed by Ignacio Rojas VallejoIn Spanish with English subtitles, 70 min Sunday October 19, 2025, 3 PMInnis Town Hall Ignacio is a young filmmaker who wants to make a movie. Since he is out of work, hisextravagant mother offers him a job as a Read More …
Argentina, 2024Directed by Adrián SuarIn Spanish with English subtitles, 97 min Saturday October 18, 2025, 8 PMInnis Town Hall Dario lives in the USA and is estranged from his father and brothers. He decides to travel to his country to attend his sister’s wedding, where Read More …
Argentina, 2025Directed by Brenda TaubinIn Spanish with English subtitles, 76 min Saturday October 18, 2025, 5 PMInnis Town Hall Alejandro is passionate about space and handcrafts small-scale planets. One day, he receives an unexpected email from the European Space Agency, which, after stumbling upon his Read More …
El Salvador, 2024Directed by Álvaro J. MartínezSpanish with English subtitles, 105 min Saturday October 18, 2025, 3 PMInnis Town Hall Salvadoran romantic comedy that tells the story of Ale (played by Cristina Meléndez) and Diego (Henry Urbina). The two grew up as neighbors and forged Read More …
Canada, Cuba, 2023Directed by Pedro RuizIn French and Spanish with English subtitles, 91 min Thursday October 16, 2025, 6 PMCentre for Social InnovationCineforum The Eight Floor is a film between reality and excess. A hybrid work mixing autobiography and fiction, in the style of literary Read More …