Southern Currents & aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival
Southern Currents is a Toronto-based non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating Latin American arts in all its forms. We champion underrepresented voices and foster public appreciation for Latinx Canadian arts through film screenings, panels, symposia, workshops, live performances, and art exhibitions.
For over 25 years, we have proudly hosted the aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival, North America’s premier showcase of independent Latin American cinema and media arts. aluCine features cutting-edge films, media installations, and performances that reflect the rich diversity of Latin culture both in Canada and globally.
Our Mission
aluCine is committed to fostering connections between Canadian and Latin American independent media artists. Through our annual festival, touring exhibitions, and year-round programming, we create platforms for meaningful dialogue among artists, curators, and audiences.
What We Do
Annual aluCine Festival: A ten-day celebration of Latin film and media arts featuring screenings, installations, panels, and performances.
Year-Round Programming: Screenings, workshops, and symposiums designed to promote the development of Latin film and culture in Toronto.
International Exchange: Presenting Canadian works abroad and bringing global Latinx perspectives to Canada.
aluCine serves as a vital platform for Latin artists whose work exists outside mainstream media, ensuring their voices are amplified internationally.
Artistic Vision
While the Spanish language creates a common bond for the Hispanic community, our community is diverse, shaped by the political, socio-economic, and cultural contexts of our members' countries of origin. This diversity fosters unity through complexity. Our artistic vision reflects this as we strive to challenge overly simplistic representations of Latin culture.
aluCine aims to create inclusive spaces for dialogue among film/video and new media artists, curators, and audiences in Canada, Latin America, and the global Latinx diaspora.
aluCine is one of North America's most prominent Latin media arts festivals, showcasing innovative and independent films across all genres and presenting new media installations and performances. Each year, we feature high-quality media art that engages with a broad spectrum of issues, identities, and stories from Latin America, Canada, and beyond.
aluCine amplifies the work of emerging and established Latin artists in Canada and the Diaspora through an annual festival, year-round cultural programming, and touring exhibitions in Latin America.
As part of our 25th anniversary, we invite Canadian-based Latin American artists, media makers, filmmakers, curators, creatives, and scholars to contribute to the Second Latin American Media Arts Symposium (LAMAS) from October 14 to 17, 2025.
