The Best of Latin American Culture Cinema in Toronto

The Toronto Latin American Film Festival, LATAFF 2025, presented by the Hispanic Canadian Heritage Council (HCHC), aims to promote the very best and the most fascinating cinema from Latin America and from Latino Canadian producers, featuring the most recent award wining films. From comedies and dramas to family-oriented movies, these film selections will meet everybody’s expectations on production quality, interesting plots, and entertainment with the uniqueness of Latin American style.
This event is one of the highlights during the Hispanic / Latin American Heritage Month (October) of each year celebrating and sharing the Latin America culture and diversity.

The Hispanic Canadian Heritage Council, HCHC, is a non-profit organization created with the support and collaboration of the three levels of government, in addition to numerous organizations. Its mission is to highlight and promote the contribution of Hispanic / Latin American culture in the evolving fabric of Canadian Heritage.
One of the main activities of the HCHC is the celebration of the Hispanic / Latin American Heritage Month in October of each year, as it had been declared for the Toronto City Council, for the Ontario Legislature and for the Federal Parliament.

The Toronto Latin American Film Festival, LATAFF was launched in 2015 to meet the community’s need for opportunities that could enable them to strengthen their identification with their Latin-American roots, specially second generation of Latino immigrants. However, since then, the growing interest of the general population for the unique perspective of the Latin American film industry, has made this event an exceptional occasion to view some of the most successful movies that has captured the attention of millions of people around the world.

The Toronto Latin American Film Festival 2025 will be screened at the Innis Town Hall Theatre at the University of Toronto (2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5).

The Toronto Latin American Film Festival is an appointment in our city with the very best of Latin American cinema. And is a celebration of our cultural diversity through the great stories told in this selection of movies from the whole Spanish speaking continent.
We are the cultural and artistic thread between Latin American and other background heritage communities who enjoy watching movies and documentaries.

What inspires and moves us most is bringing together cultural diversity, age, religious, political and gender differences through our passionate and unique Latin American perspective on arts and film entertainment.

TERMS & CONDITIONS FOR SUBMISSIONS

1. You can submit a film under six categories: Latino Canadian Features, Latino Canadian Documentary, Latino Canadian Shorts, Latin American Features, Latin American Documentary and Latin American Shorts.
2. The categories Features and Documentary are films with run times of 60 minutes or longer. The categories Shorts have run times of 40 minutes or less.
3. Latino Canadian films are directed by Latino filmmakers who reside in Canada and list Canada as one of the countries of production.
4. Latin American films are directed by citizens or permanent residents of any Latin American country and list any Latin American country as one of the countries of production.
5. All films submitted need to have English subtitles.
6. By submitting a film to LATAFF for consideration, the submitter represent that have read, understood, and agree to this terms and conditions, and that have the rights of the film.
7. Submission fees are non-refundable.
8. To be eligible for consideration, submission screeners must be submitted only online via FilmFreeway.
9. Submission fees, deadlines, and notifications of selection for LATAFF 2025 are listed in FilmFreeway submission information.

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  • yael szmulewicz

    a traves del consulado argentino pude saber detalles del evento y todo fue muy hermoso segun me comentaron

    November 2024
  • Un hermoso festival que expande la cultura latina en horizontes canadienses. Gracias por haber seleccionado mi película.

    October 2024
  • Vanessa Caceres

    It was a great festival. The room was full. The audience was touched and compelled by the film. Vanesa was excellent, always keeping us posted and giving us all the information needed. Oscar was very welcoming and introduced us to other filmmakers and industry leaders. Looking forward to come back in the future.

    October 2024
  • Emily Bendeck Garay

    Great communication with Vanesa and they truly create a great space where Latin/Canadian projects can not only be celebrated, but also great networking.

    October 2024
  • It was a great overall experience to be part of the LATAFF 2023. The organizers go the extra mile to promote Latin-American filmmakers and our work. Thanks to all the team for being so welcoming, my best wishes for this year's edition!

    January 2024