Previous Film Weeks
2022 Film Week
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The Annual Latin American and Spanish Film Week returned for its 12th run! Six days of international cinema from Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and Spain, plus special events. Screenings at Cinecenta. All films were shown with English subtitles.
2021 Film Week
The 11th Film Week ran September 16 - 26, 2021, with a line-up of films from Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay, Peru, and Spain.
Happily, we brought it back in 2021 as a hybrid event! Three online film screenings (Sept 16 to 21) and five in-person theatre screenings (Sept 22 to 26) at Cinecenta. All five films focused on migration in and from Latin America. Concurrent with the Film Week, “Journeys and Migrations: a Colloquium on Contemporary Hispanic Cinema” was on Sept 25.
2020 Film Week
Sadly, we were unable to offer Film Week due to Covid19 pandemic.
2019 Film Week
The 10th Latin American and Spanish Film Week + Party took place from Tuesday 17 to Sunday 22 of September, 2019. The line-up included films from Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, Paraguay, and Spain. Check out the complete line-up and synopses, here.
2018 Film Week
The 9th Latin American and Spanish Film Week took place from Tuesday 18 to Sunday 23 of September, 2018. The line-up included films from Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Spain. Check out the complete line-up and synopses, here.
2017 Film Week
The 8th Latin American and Spanish Film Week took place from Tuesday, 19 to Sunday 24 of September, 2017. The line-up included films from Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. Check out the complete line-up and film synopses.
2016 Film Week
The 7th Latin American and Spanish Film Week took place from Monday 19 to Sunday 25 of September, 2016. The line-up included films from Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Spain. Check out the complete line-up and film synopses.
2015 Film Week
The 6th Film Week took place from Tuesday, September 22 to Sunday, September 27, 2015. The line-up included films from Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, and Spain. Complete line-up and film synopses.
2014 Film Week
The 5th Film Week took place from Tuesday, September 16 to Sunday, September 21, 2014. The line-up included films from Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Mexico, and Spain. Complete line-up and film synopses.
2013 Film Week
The 4th Film Week took place from Tuesday, September 17 to Sunday, September 22, 2013. The line-up included films from Guatemala/US, Spain/Switzerland, Cuba, Mexico, and Argentina. Complete line-up and film synopses.
Marquee at Cinecenta announcing the event.
2012 Film Week
The 3rd Film Week took place from Tuesday 18 to Sunday 23 of September, 2012. The line-up included films from Brazil, Chile, Mexico/Spain, Perú, Cuba and Argentina. Complete line-up and film synopses.
Thank you to our current and past Sponsors!
Sponsors have included:
- Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies
- Latin America Research Group
- Office of the Vice-President Academic & Provost
- Office of International Affairs
- Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Division of Continuing Studies
- Office of Community Relations
- UVic Social Justice Studies
- Consulate General of Mexico (Vancouver)
- Capital Regional District
- Mining Justice Action Committee
- CUPE Vancouver Island District Council
- Central American Support Committee
- BC Arts Council
We also acknowledge past support from:
- Consulate General of Argentina in Toronto
- Passion for Tango Society
- CFUV radio program Postales Musicales de Latinoamérica (101.9 FM)
- Community member Randal Recinos-Drago
- Contributions of Mr. Christian Sida-Valenzuela, Director of the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival