3 – 6 October 2026
London Latino Film Festival 2026
London Latino Film Festival (LoLaFF) is a community-led, non-profit film festival in London that celebrates and amplifies Latin American voices through cinema.
Our mission is to build cultural bridges, create access to underrepresented stories, and bring audiences together through powerful film experiences that inspire dialogue and connection. Through screenings, Q&As, partnerships and outreach activities, we support filmmakers and create spaces for visibility, connection and social impact.
London Latino Film Festival 2026
London Latino Film Festival (LoLaFF) is a community-led, non-profit film festival in London that celebrates and amplifies Latin American voices through cinema.
Our mission is to build cultural bridges, create access to underrepresented stories, and bring audiences together through powerful film experiences that inspire dialogue and connection. Through screenings, Q&As, partnerships and outreach activities, we support filmmakers and create spaces for visibility, connection and social impact.
Programme
Saturday 3 October, 12.15pm
Memory, Family & Return
This programme brings together five short films exploring themes of memory, family, return and identity. Across different generations and relationships between parents and children, the films reflect on what is passed down to us and what we inherit – memories, stories, identities and experiences.
Saturday 3 October, 2.15pm
Concepción
This captivating documentary explores the life and legacy of César Concepción (1909-1974), a maestro of La Plena, and trailblazer in Latin music.
Saturday 3 October, 4pm
Strawberry and Chocolate + Q&A
David, a university student, meets Diego, an openly gay intellectual with a passion for art and literature. What begins as an unlikely encounter gradually develops into a deep and unexpected friendship that challenges David's assumptions and changes both of their lives in 1970s Havana.
Saturday 3 October, 6pm
¡Quba!
Against the backdrop of Havana's sun-drenched streets and shimmering coastline, ¡Quba! blazes a trail through Cuba's LGBTQ revolution.
Sunday 4 October, 12.15pm
Stories of Resilience
This programme brings together four short films exploring the theme of resilience. Across different contexts and forms, the films consider resilience as the capacity to move through what does not work, and to adapt to life’s challenges rather than remaining in a static state.
Sunday 4 October, 2pm
Dogs
The Saldaña family has new tasks for the summer: looking after the dog and the house of the Pernas, their neighbours. The house is a small luxury that provokes the envy of the neighbourhood, and the Saldañas, taking advantage of their duties as improvised caretakers, will live out their own vacation in it.
Sunday 4 October, 4pm
Street Wanderers
Inspired by true events, this story intertwines a crime thriller with a migrant drama. In 2010, Chinese mafias arrived in the city of Mendoza, which became the hidden stage of a silent war between two factions fighting for control.
Sunday 4 October, 6pm
Life is Dance
Life is Dance follows the stories of six main protagonists, across 3 generations. Ordinary Cubans with one thing in common, their love of dance.
Sunday 4 October, 8pm
Naira
Naira, an imaginative nine-year-old girl living in precarious conditions near the Colca Canyon, desperately seeks a way to save her mother, Nieves, from the cruel abuse of their landlord, Don Demetrio.
Tuesday 6 October, 12pm
A Bright Future
Elisa lives with her mother, Nélida, in a housing development located in a city that seems to exist out of time. The most illustrious youths are sent to the North, a sort of promised land where “history is being rewritten”.
Tuesday 6 October, 2pm
Cartas a mis padres muertos
Filmmaker Ignacio Agüero creates an intimate audiovisual correspondence with his parents, beginning with his father’s death just days after Allende’s election and spanning fifty years of personal and Chilean history.
Tuesday 6 October, 4pm
Memories of Underdevelopment
Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois intellectual, chooses to stay in Havana while his family flees to Miami after the Cuban Revolution. Unable to join the new socialist fervour or let go of his past, he wanders the city as a cynical, detached observer.
Saturday 3 October, 12.15pm
Memory, Family & Return
This programme brings together five short films exploring themes of memory, family, return and identity. Across different generations and relationships between parents and children, the films reflect on what is passed down to us and what we inherit – memories, stories, identities and experiences.
Saturday 3 October, 2.15pm
Concepción
This captivating documentary explores the life and legacy of César Concepción (1909-1974), a maestro of La Plena, and trailblazer in Latin music.
Saturday 3 October, 4pm
Strawberry and Chocolate + Q&A
David, a university student, meets Diego, an openly gay intellectual with a passion for art and literature. What begins as an unlikely encounter gradually develops into a deep and unexpected friendship that challenges David's assumptions and changes both of their lives in 1970s Havana.
Saturday 3 October, 6pm
¡Quba!
Against the backdrop of Havana's sun-drenched streets and shimmering coastline, ¡Quba! blazes a trail through Cuba's LGBTQ revolution.
Sunday 4 October, 12.15pm
Stories of Resilience
This programme brings together four short films exploring the theme of resilience. Across different contexts and forms, the films consider resilience as the capacity to move through what does not work, and to adapt to life’s challenges rather than remaining in a static state.
Sunday 4 October, 2pm
Dogs
The Saldaña family has new tasks for the summer: looking after the dog and the house of the Pernas, their neighbours. The house is a small luxury that provokes the envy of the neighbourhood, and the Saldañas, taking advantage of their duties as improvised caretakers, will live out their own vacation in it.
Sunday 4 October, 4pm
Street Wanderers
Inspired by true events, this story intertwines a crime thriller with a migrant drama. In 2010, Chinese mafias arrived in the city of Mendoza, which became the hidden stage of a silent war between two factions fighting for control.
Sunday 4 October, 6pm
Life is Dance
Life is Dance follows the stories of six main protagonists, across 3 generations. Ordinary Cubans with one thing in common, their love of dance.
Sunday 4 October, 8pm
Naira
Naira, an imaginative nine-year-old girl living in precarious conditions near the Colca Canyon, desperately seeks a way to save her mother, Nieves, from the cruel abuse of their landlord, Don Demetrio.
Tuesday 6 October, 12pm
A Bright Future
Elisa lives with her mother, Nélida, in a housing development located in a city that seems to exist out of time. The most illustrious youths are sent to the North, a sort of promised land where “history is being rewritten”.
Tuesday 6 October, 2pm
Cartas a mis padres muertos
Filmmaker Ignacio Agüero creates an intimate audiovisual correspondence with his parents, beginning with his father’s death just days after Allende’s election and spanning fifty years of personal and Chilean history.
Tuesday 6 October, 4pm
Memories of Underdevelopment
Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois intellectual, chooses to stay in Havana while his family flees to Miami after the Cuban Revolution. Unable to join the new socialist fervour or let go of his past, he wanders the city as a cynical, detached observer.
