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At the coming San Sebastian International Film Festival, the 2nd Sebastian Latino Award will go to the Latin American feature film released in the previous year to best defend lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender demands and values.
This accolade, a logical engagement by the Festival, which has always been characterised by its backing of Latin American productions, joins the Sebastiane Award, presented at the Festival for the last fifteen editions. Fifteen years of working with cinema as a reference and a window, where all sexual and affective realities are manifested.
The Sebastiane Latino was introduced in 2013 as an extension of the Sebastiane Award. The winner was Quebranto, a documentary by the Mexican, Roberto Fiesco.
Now in its second edition, over the year the Sebastiane Award jury has viewed almost all of the feature films that champion sexual diversity. Although the award can only go to a single film, the aim of the endeavour is to support and recognise all of the people who have made these works possible and to act as a loudspeaker for the growing commitment of Latin American cinema to defending LGBT people.
The jury would also like to make special mention of five finalists: three Brazilian productions, one Mexican and another from Argentina. The winning film will be announced shortly.
TATUAGEM (TATTOO) (BRAZIL)
Director: Hilton Lacerda
1978. The military regime governing Brazil since the 1964 coup d'état is apparently starting to lose wind. In this context, an 18 year-old soldier falls in love with an intellectual who runs an anarchist cabaret, a man older than him who refuses to accept the dictatorship.
PRAIA DO FUTURO (BRAZIL-GERMANY)
Director: Karim Aïnouz
Donato is a lifeguard on the Praia do Futuro beach. He lives a rather peaceful existence until something terrible happens. On one of his rescue missions, Donato is unable to save the life of a German tourist in difficulties. After the incident, the lifeguard does anything he can to escape from his daily chores and the guilt that hounds him. Donato sinks lower by the day; but his younger brother Ayrton is determined not to let it happen and sets about doing everything he can to help him.
HOJE EU QUERO VOLTAR SOZINHO (THE WAY HE LOOKS) (BRAZIL)
Director: Daniel Ribeiro
AMAR ES BENDITO (ARGENTINA)
Director: Liliana Paolinelli
Mecha and Ofelia are going through a rough patch pushed to explosion point by the appearance of a third woman. Despite promising Ofelia that she'll leave her lover, Mecha realises she just can't do it; but neither can Ofelia leave Mecha. Mecha tries desperate solutions, with no success, until she starts to suspect that her anguish has nothing to do with love.
CUATRO LUNAS (MEXICO)
Director: Sergio Toval Velarde
Four tales of loves won and lost between different generations of men facing up to their conflicts and their fears. Four tales of love and self-acceptance. A child aged eleven is smitten by his male cousin. Two university students begin an affair that takes a complicated twist when one of them refuses to accept his homosexuality. A relationship of several years is seriously threatened when one of them is attracted to a third man. An elderly man tries to get the money to pay for a meeting with a young male prostitute he is obsessed with.
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