Director
Javier Fuentes-León
Year
2009
Run Time
100
min
Country
Peru
Language
Spanish
PROGRAM Time
minutes
CONTENT WARNING:
A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town’s rigid traditions.
This film is presented in Spanish with English subtitles.
Please joins us for a very special evening. We will be awarding famed LGBT film distributor Wolfe with our Community Award. Wolfe President Maria Lynn will be presented with the award for all of their work over the past 25 years in getting LGBT films out into the world. The award ceremony will be followed by a special screening of the Sundance Audience Award winning drama Contracorriente (The Undertow). Jarrett Barios, President of GLAAD will be presenting the award to Maria Lynn and will introduce the film.
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