Our Mission

The Chicago Latino Film Festival is the longest running Spanish & Portuguese language film festival event dedicated to Latino Filmmakers and Cinema. Since 1985, the Festival has brought together audiences, film directors and actors to enjoy and lift motion picture arts from a Latino point of view.

Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2024. CLFF continuing by bringing these films to the theatre where we find the full experience of film watching at its most enjoyable.

We aim to bring quality Latino films to Chicago. Films that lend a voice that transcends political views into human forms of expression, sharing ideas and concepts that are funny, sad, dramatic, exciting or different from anything we have seen before.