JOSE

By Li CHENG

REDIANCE - as SALES FESTIVALS

LGBT - Completed 2018

José (19 years old) lives with his Mother (50s) in Guatemala: a tough life in one of the most violent and religious countries. His life is his phone, crowded buses, work in the street and random sex. When he meets Luis, he’s thrust into new-found passion and pain

Festivals
& Awards

Venice - Biennale 2018
Queer Lion Award
BFI Flare 2019
Bodies
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • LGBT, Drama
    • Countries
    • GUATEMALA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 85 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Li CHENG
    • Writer(s)
    • Li CHENG
    • Producer(s)
    • George F ROBERSON
    • Synopsis
    • José (19 years old) lives with his Mother (50s) in Guatemala City - a typical lower-class existence in one of the world’s most dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. She never had a husband, and José is her youngest and favorite child. Her life is her church, and selling sandwiches at a bus stop. José spends his days on cramped buses and fighting traffic as he runs food to waiting drivers. Aloof and resigned to things as they are, he fills his free moments playing with his phone and random sex arranged on street corners and dating apps. When he meets Luis, a migrant from the rural Caribbean coast, they pursue an unexpected relationship and José is thrust into passion and pain and self-reflection that were previously unimaginable