The Latin Boys: Volume 1
From Mennonite musings on the Amazonian pampas to wild Havana nights and bittersweet Rio love songs, if a roller-coaster of same sex desire is what you seek, The Latin Boys will take you there.
Rodrigo Bellott
Erick Salas Kirchhausen
Quentin Lazzarotto
Simon(è) Jaikiriuma Paetau
Andrés Madrigal Alvarado
Henrique Arruda
Also Directed by Rodrigo Bellott
This film skewers the audience's prejudices when the subtitles abandon their usual chore of translating what is said and start talking directly to the audience.
Amir and Amat are invited to a trip into the South American rain forest, but the pleasant visit to Bolivia quickly takes a bizarre turn as Amat starts having strange visions and loses his mind over the ghostly presence of a giant blood red ox. Amir must save his boyfriend from paranoia but he will quickly realize he can't trust nothing and nobody - as he might be losing his mind too.
Jacinto and Domitila are two indigenous Bolivians, happily married... and the most notorious criminals in the country. When they are paid to transport 50kg of cocaine to the Brazilian border, they embark on a journey that will take them through the jungles, mountains, deserts and cities of Bolivia on a riotous adventure that will test their relationship and make them question their future as criminals. (IMDB)
A poor girl, a rich stud, a university student and a model -- nothing in common, except the desire to experience true intimacy. Their stories unfold and overlap as each becomes victim to their own sexual dependencies, self-perceptions and illusions. Thematically structured around issues of femininity, masculinity, virginity, rape and sexuality, each teen struggles to make sense of their own identity, reaching for ideals that represent everything they feel they are supposed to be, but are not.
A young German/Bolivian Mennonite risks his life to escape his strict religious community to find love and freedom in the city.
Enigmatic and silent Gus arrives in a city in upstate New York, to a hotel where he is staying for a day, while developing meticulous grooming and cleaning routines and expect a phone call that can change your life.
Following his son Gabriel’s death, Jorge travels from conservative Bolivia to New York City to confront Gabriel’s boyfriend Sebastian. While the two battle over Jorge’s inability to accept his son, Sebastian channels his grief into a bold new play in honor of his lost love, in which Gabriel’s inner turmoil is transformed into an eye-popping gay fantasia.
Also Directed by Erick Salas Kirchhausen
Javier is a powerful but miserable politician with a much younger secret lover, Gonzalo. Struggling with his shame over the relationship, Javier takes Gonzalo on a trip to try to work things out but the tension between them only escalates.
Marcos confesses to Esteban that his relationship with his girlfriend doesn't excite him anymore. That night both will discover the limits of their friendship.
Also Directed by Quentin Lazzarotto
In the Amazonian jungle, the village of Palma Real resists the modern world. Carlito, a silent young man, decides to leave. On the muddy bed of the immense river, an encounter reveals the secret that Carlito has hidden from his community.
From the heart of the Amazon comes this exclusive LGBTQ+ compilation from emerging Latin American directors from Brazil and Peru. These thought-provoking shorts prove that universal social themes have no borders.
Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity has revolutionised our understanding of gravity, space and time. Initially acclaimed, then forgotten, and now rediscovered, the adventure of this hundred-year-old theory has marked the scientific history of the 20th century. From its inception, a mathematical difficulty arose that could have nipped the theory in the bud: the Schwarzschild singularity. In the company of great international relativistic physicists, the viewer embarks on a discovery of this theory with a singular destiny. We discover a "curved" universe that proves to be even stranger than Einstein had envisioned, and harbours some objects - such as black holes - that still challenge today's scientists.
Above the shifting currents of contemporary music soars a talented and intriguing composer, Régis Campo. This is an intimate documentary on the creation of a musical universe like none other, portrait of an outstanding French composer.
Also Directed by Simon(è) Jaikiriuma Paetau
An artist penetrates him/herself with a cob of transgenic corn in the middle of a field, unawares that death is near. His/her sister Ana, who has been following him/her with his/her ashes, embarks on a journey into the Amazon forest that will become a quest as spiritual as it is erotic.
In the middle of the Colombian coffee region, Aribada, the resurrected monster, meets Las Traviesas, a group of indigenous transwomen from the Emberá tribes. The magical, the dreamlike and the performative coexist in their unique world - an aesthetic and spiritual universe in which documentary and fiction merge into a transcultural narrative. Enchanted by the beauty and power of their jais (spirits), Aribada decides to join Las Traviesas in creating their own trans*futurist community.
Every weekend at an illegal drag show in a suburb of Havana, Sebastián, a 17 year old Cuban teenager, transforms into « Mila Caos ». He suffers from his mother’s indifference and dreams that one day she will see him on stage.
A Berlin artist, experimenting with life as an extraterrestrial, witnesses the murder of a prostitute and transforms into a mutant femme-fatale avenger.
Also Directed by Andrés Madrigal Alvarado
In a desolate supermarket, a religious woman's peaceful evening is interrupted by the sudden arrival of three punks, who are running away from the police and hiding something much more valuable than money.
Also Directed by Henrique Arruda
2050. The world as we now is about to be destroyed by a pink cloud. Away from the cities and lost on inhabited roads, Pedro and Miguel search for eternity.
Eight gay men between the ages of 50 and 70 share their memories, experiences, and nocturnal images, asking themselves what place their bodies now occupy.
In the future, love will be a frequency.