Undertow
Centerpiece Screening
Monday, June 28 - 7:45pm

A lyrically beautiful film,UNDERTOW manages to depict a great and complicated love affair amidst macho Latino culture in a creative way; it is no wonder that this film was honored with an Audience Award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

Noted by its breath taking views of Peru's seaside, its organic performances, and passionate scenes of the two men making love on the sand, it is a brave and startling work of queer cinema from Latin America.

Miguel lives in a small picturesque village on the coast of Peru where he works as a fisherman supporting his expectant wife, Mariela. The two are seemingly happy and in love, but what Mariela doesn't know is that when Miguel leaves to allegedly repair fishing nets, he is really going to see Santiago, with whom he has been having a long-lasting affair.

It is said that the ghosts of our pasts will always haunt us; in this wonderful film from Peru, we see how true that can be In Spanish with English subtitles.

BUY TICKETSDirected by Jose Fuetes-Leon / Peru/Columbia / 2009 / 102 minutes
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