JOSE

By Li CHENG

OUTSIDER PICTURES - as SALES / DISTR

LGBT - Completed 2018

Longing in Guatemala - a simple story about love

Festivals
& Awards

Venice - Biennale 2018
Queer Lion
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • LGBT, Romance, Drama
    • Countries
    • GUATEMALA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 85 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Li CHENG
    • Synopsis
    • Jose (19 years old) lives with his Mom (50s) in Guatemala: a tough life in one of the most violent, religious and poorest countries. Jose is her youngest and favorite child, and her life is church and selling sandwiches. Resigned and aloof, 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 and self-reflection