MEN OF HARD SKIN

HOMBRES DE PIEL DURA

By José Celestino CAMPUSANO

TLA RELEASING (LONDON) - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline

LGBT - Completed 2019

Ariel is a teenage boy trying to live and breathe his sexuality against the moralizing behaviors of a small farm town of the Argentinean catholic countryside.


Festivals
& Awards

BFI Flare 2019
Hearts
Rotterdam IFFR 2019
Perspective
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • LGBT, Drama
    • Countries
    • ARGENTINA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH-ARGENTINE
    • Duration
    • 96 mn
    • Director(s)
    • José Celestino CAMPUSANO
    • Producer(s)
    • Leonardo PADÍN (CINEBRUTO), Mónica AMARILLA (CINEBRUTO)
    • Synopsis
    • Ariel is an attractive gay boy who lives with his older sister and their father in a rural area in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In his puberty Ariel was seduced by a Catholic priest named Omar, who constantly takes advantage of his innocence and lack of experience playing with his emotions. Sick of this situation Ariel ends the relationship. Ariel's father thinks that his children fail to have a normal sexual behavior, his daughter is distant on that regard and he is not sure whether to accept his son's homosexuality. Ariel's painful search for love is crowned when he meets a young rustler named Ramirez, who lives in hiding harassed by the police. Omar, distressed, requests an urgent transfer