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The Best Friend

Closing the TLVFest with a smile!

After a crisis with his partner, Lucas (Vinícius Teixeira) goes alone to the quiet beach of Canoa Quebrada in Brazil, where he reconnects with Felipe (Gabriel Fuentes) , an old classmate who works as a tour guide. Their reunion brings to the surface feelings that were buried deep and forces Lucas to face a dilema- go back to his current relationship or surrender to an old passion?

Set against the gorgeous backdrop of the beach, and a soundtrack laced with hits of the 80’s and 90’s, this film is a celebration of love, self discovery and the beauty of the north-east coast of Brazil.

Fine Young Men

Alf, a student in a conservative Catholic school that is home to Mexico’s elite social echelon is attracted to Oliver, a new student- a talented musician who plays at church.

As their relationship deepens, Alf is pulling away from his old friends, but under the pressure of his fellow students and social expectations he betrays Oliver in a desperate attempt to prove his manhood- resulting in a catastrophic outcome that challenges his sense of self and his values.

“Fine Young Men” is a chilling thriller about homophobia, class differences and the destructive price of self-hatred.

In association with PrideTV

Thesis on a Domestication

A successful transgender actress (Camila Sosa Villada), known for her promiscuous and wild lifestyle, which defies every expectation set for her by her friends and the conservative Argentinian society, surprises her friends when she decides to settle down and start a family with a new husband (Alfonso Herrera “Sens8”, “Ozark”), will she be able to navigate between the mis-matched worlds she lives in? Moving between the wild nightlife she blossomed in, as a successful theatre actress in a demanding cultural world and the seemingly normal family life.

Director Javier van de Couter’s film (“Mía”- 2013 TLVFest closing film starring Camila Sosa Villada as well) is a steamy adaptation to a novel by the same name written by Camila Sosa Villada. This is a brave cinematic piece that gives us a strong and complex transgender heroine that is navigating between sexual fantasies, complicated personal history, social expectations and the want to create a family unit she never had. Can she have everything or will she have to give up some things in order to have the bourgeois family dream?

This film is limited to 18 years old and above due to explicit sex scenes.

In association with the Instituto Cervantes

Perro perro

Some men are just dogs! Juan happens to find one in the wild while on a nice vacation with his girlfriend and another couple of friends. He adopts him, bathes him, feeds him, plays with him and gives him plenty of love and affection, even though his girlfriend warns him not to get too attached.

Argentinian provocative director Marco Berger (“The Astronaut’s Lover”, “Los Agitadores”) who’s films we frequently screen at the TLVFest, comes back with an absurd and daring homo-erotic tale on the human need to connect to a living creature and when that connection becomes a primal basic animal instinct. The result is thought provoking about controlling relationships even in our daily lives.

Nicola

Nicolas is a divorced Argentinian baker who lives with his three children in a small Bolivian town in the heart of the wild surrounded by forests, waterfalls and lakes.

This ideal environment is clashing with the burden of life and the responsibility of raising children, earning money and the physical and emotional need to be who you are in a community that might not accept you.

Filmmaker Pablo Terrazas documents Nicolas’ life until the moment he decides the reveal a deep secret and start a journey of self-healing and discovery.

In association with the Instituto Cervantes

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