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2025 Programming

October 16–18, 2025 • Nine distinctive programs celebrating Latin Film + Media Arts

Curatorial Statement

Curatorial Statement

A message from our festival director about the vision and passion behind our 25th anniversary.

Venues

Venues

Explore the vibrant cultural spaces across Toronto that will host the aluCine 2025 events.

Opening Night

Opening Night

La Salsa Vive

Celebrate the start of aluCine 2025 with an evening of film, community, and Latin culture.

Resist. Restore. Reimagine.

Resist. Restore. Reimagine.

International Shorts

Films and discussions exploring themes of resistance, restoration, and reimagining Latin futures.

Fragile Geometry

Fragile Geometry

Quadrilateral

A feature film exploring the delicate and precise geometry of family dynamics under pressure.

Echoes of Belonging

Echoes of Belonging

International Shorts

Stories of identity, heritage, and finding home in the Latin diaspora experience.

Through the Lens of Resistance

Through the Lens of Resistance

Documentary and narrative films examining social justice and activism in Latin communities.

Crossings & Kinships

Crossings & Kinships

Latin Canadian Shorts

Exploring connections across borders, cultures, and generations in Latin America and beyond.

Latin Mixer

Latin Mixer

Late night party at CineCycle where the festival family meets the dance floor. Connect, collaborate, and dance with filmmakers and artists.

aluCine

Latin Film + Media Arts Festival

Celebrating Latin American cinema and empowering Latino-Canadian artists through film, education, and community engagement.

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Echoes of Belonging

Echoes of Belonging

Date

Saturday, October 18, 2025 - 4:00 PM

Location

CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave, Toronto

Tickets

Pay What You Can (PWYC) | Senior/Student Discount | *ALL FILMS HAVE ENGLISH SUBTITLES*

About This Program

Across mountains, memories, and myth, these stories trace the many ways we search for home. Whether crossing deserts, city streets, or the landscapes of the mind, each character confronts what it means to belong — to a place, a people, a past. From intimate family recollections to spiritual migrations, divine missions, and canine wonderings, these films weave together personal and collective histories, offering glimpses of resilience, reinvention, and the echoes that guide us through.

Featured Films

Belonging

Belonging

Directed by Clement Oberto • 3 minutes 14 seconds • 2025

Mexico / USA • Fiction

Canadian Premiere

A woman returns to Mexico, her heart filled with longing. Amidst the familiar landscapes, she reunites with her childhood friend, revisiting memories of the past and reflecting on the life she left behind.

Desde Tu Sombra

Desde Tu Sombra

Directed by Víctor Soto Castillo • 20 minutes • 2024

Chile • Fiction

North American Premiere

Moise and Leyna, undocumented Haitian immigrants, work as seasonal laborers in the Limarí Valley. Their lives are put at risk by exploitative labor practices. During a solar eclipse, an accident occurs that drives Moise to make a dark decision.

Nature Boy

Nature Boy

Directed by Darice Polo • 8 minutes 13 seconds • 2022

USA • Documentary

4:00 PM

Nature Boy tells the story of the filmmaker's maternal grandparents, Ruperto and Emilia, who emigrated to New York from Puerto Rico in 1927 and raised a family of six daughters on Prospect Avenue in the Bronx. Conversations with two of the daughters, in their 70s and 80s, recount the nurturing of their mother and aunt, the struggles they faced during the depression, and the community driven activism of their father.

Sunset Over America

Sunset Over America

Directed by Matías Rojas Valencia • 17 minutes • 2024

Brazil, Chile • Documentary

Toronto Premiere

The 13-year-old Bárbara leaves the crisis in Venezuela behind and journeys through South America, seeking a better life in Chile. She recalls the night she crossed the Altiplano plateau in the Andes. At 4,000 metres above sea level, she struggled against the biting cold and exhaustion but at the same time felt like she was being accompanied by a spiritual presence that wanders like the wind.

Do you know why the dachshund cries?

Do you know why the dachshund cries?

Directed by Iván Sierra • 7 minutes 4 seconds • 2025

Colombia • Animation

North American Premiere

A dachshund scrutinizes the day trying to figure out why her human doesn't love her.

Dona Beatriz Ñsîmba Vita

Dona Beatriz Ñsîmba Vita

Directed by Catapreta • 20 minutes • 2024

Brazil • Animation

Toronto Premiere

A woman determined to fulfill the divine mission of creating her own people, using a peculiar ability to produce clones of herself. Freely inspired by the story of the Congolese heroine Kimpa Vita.

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