Grieving over his son Gabriel’s suicide, Jorge (Oscar Martínez), a conservative, homophobic Bolivian businessman, accidentally encounters his son’s gay lover Sebastian on Skype. It’s an angry, ugly confrontation, full of blame and rage. Yet not long after, it leads Jorge to New York, where the playwright Sebastian lives. Realising he never knew who his son really was, Jorge begins a journey that will open his mind and heart. Writer/director Rodrigo Bellott based this bold, heartbreaking film on his own play, which was such a sensation in Bolivia it helped changed their restrictive anti-LGBT laws. His movie unfolds on multiple time planes: in the present with Jorge and Sebastian; to the past when the two young Bolivians fall in love in Manhattan; to the future, when Sebastian is interviewed about the play he’s written in honor of Gabriel; and to the making of the play itself, a surreal and sensual fantasia of gay life.

Winner: Grand Jury Award — Best Screenplay, Outfest

In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize

Producers Elisa Lleras and Rodrigo A. Orozco and actor Jose Duran are expected to attend on January 4 and 5.