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A jury made up of members of GEHITU, the Basque association of gays, lesbians, transsexuals and bisexuals, has chosen four Latin American films as finalists of the XII Sebastiane Latino Award. The selected titles are Los amantes astronautas, Reas, Baby and Vera y el placer de los otros.
The accolade goes to the Latin American feature film best representing defence of the demands and values of the LGBTQIA+ Community. In 2024, three male and two female directors symbolise this defence the length and breadth of the continent with one production from Brazil and three from Argentina.
GEHITU, who made the selection after viewing 17 projects directed by twelve men and seven women, highlights that the four finalist titles “seek to represent the contribution of LGBTQIA+ communities to the evolution of family structures, sexual encounters and sexual relaxation”.
In 2023 the Sebastiane Latino went to the Colombian-French production Transfariana, by Joris Lachaise, following the unexpected love story between a former trans sex worker and a FARC rebel. This will be the film traditionally screened in a number of Gipuzkoan towns (Deba, Irun and Urnieta) during the first week of the San Sebastian Festival thanks to GEHITU’s collaboration with Mugen Gainetik and eLankidetza-the Basque Agency for Development Cooperation.
With the call for submissions to the twelfth edition of the award, whose winner will be announced in August, GEHITU, the collaborating bodies and the San Sebastian Festival continue to support Latin American LGTBQIA+ cinema as part of the Festival framework. The 25th Sebastian Award will therefore be presented at the event while the X Meeting of Ibero-American LGTBIQA+ Film Festivals gathering more than 20 events from Spain and Latin America will also take place in San Sebastian.
Arriving to the coast, Pedro runs into Maxi, a friend he hasn’t seen since childhood. Hoping to make his ex-girlfriend jealous, Maxi asks Pedro to pretend to be his boyfriend. Pedro accepts, thinking it’s a fun idea, not realising that the game could get real.
Reas stars women and trans people formerly incarcerated in a variety of Argentinian prisons. In the old Caseros jail, now abandoned and in ruins, people who were locked away for years re-enact scenes from their former lives and imagine their future in the shape of a musical in which they themselves sing, dance and perform.
On his release from a youth detention centre, Wellington finds himself alone and drifting on the streets of São Paulo, cut off from his family and with no resources to rebuild his life. While visiting a porn cinema, he meets Ronaldo, an older man who teaches him new ways to survive. Gradually their relationship turns into a troubled passion, swinging between exploitation and protection, jealousy and complicity.
Making the most of the fact that her mother works in real estate, a young girl rents a flat by the hour to other youngsters as a space where they can have sex. What initially seems to be an easy way of making money soon turns into a channel through which the girl starts to explore her own sexuality.
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