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A jury made up of members of GEHITU, the Basque association of gays, lesbians, transexuals and bisexuals, has selected five Latin American films as finalists of the XIII Sebastiane Latino Award. The chosen titles are Ato Noturno, La misteriosa mirada del Flamenco, Los inocentes, Llueve sobre Babel and Un mundo para mí.
The award goes to the Latin American feature film that best defends the demands and values of the LGBTIAQ+ Community. In 2025, five male and one female director symbolise this defence the length and breadth of the continent with productions from Brazil, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico.
GEHITU, who made their selection after viewing 26 projects directed by 26 cisgender people (21 men and 5 women) and one non-binary person, stresses that the five finalist titles "seek to represent the contribution of LGBTIAQ+ communities to the evolution of family models, sexual encounters and of the queer world to fantasy movies". This year, the jury "is delighted to see at last, unabashed, bisexual and intersex stories on screen".
In 2024 the Sebastiane Latino went to the multi-award winning Brazilian production Baby, a film "in movement" about homosexuality, love, breaking up, marginalisation and collective resistance from which tenderness and joy are never lacking. Its director, Marcelo Caetano, will take his film to towns in Gipuzkoa (Deba, Irun and Errenteria), where the previous year's winner is traditionally screened during the first week of the San Sebastián Festival. This is possible thanks to GEHITU's collaboration with Mugen Gainetik and the eLankidetza-Basque Agency for Cooperation and Solidarity.
With the call for the 13th edition of the award, the winner of which will be announced in August, GEHITU, the collaborating bodies and the San Sebastián Festival, continue their support of LGBTIAQ+ films from Latin America within the Festival framework. Thus, during the 73rd edition, to run from 19-27 September, the 26th Sebastiane Award will be presented, and the XI Meeting of Ibero-American LGBTIAQ+ Film Festivals will take place, congregating more than 25 events from Spain and Latin America.
During the day, they perform to earn applause; at night, they put everything on the line. An actor and a politician start a secret affair, discovering their shared fetish for having sex in public places. As fame beckons, their craving for risk increases.
In the early 80s, in the Chilean desert, 11 year-old Lidia is raised by a loving queer family, banished to the outskirts of a dusty and hostile mining town. They are accused of causing a mysterious disease that's starting to spread, said to be passed on through a simple gaze, when one man falls for another. In this modern western, Lidia sets out on a quest for revenge, navigating the violence, the fear and the hatred, where the family is her only haven and love could be the real danger.
Cara de Ángel is a sensitive teenager in search of his identity, trying to understand what it means to be a man in a world shaped by hostile masculinity. To earn a place in the neighbourhood pack and prove his manhood, he joins them in a robbery; they plan to break into the house of a man from whom they seek revenge. Driven by sexual desire, he explores his connection with Gabriela, a local girl he thinks he's in love with, and Jhonny, the lead singer of a punk band he deeply admires. His hormone-fuelled choices lead him to betrayal and mark the end of his innocence.
In this take on Dante's Inferno, a group of misfits runs into La Flaca—the Grim Reaper—at the legendary bar Babel, weaving an epic and entertaining tale of love, betrayal, death and redemption.
When their baby is born with both male and female characteristics, a couple is faced with a decision that will test their beliefs, their ties and the way they understand love.
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