José
“A simple story about love”
José lives with his mother in Guatemala: a tough life in one of the world's most dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. José is her youngest and favorite child, and her life is going to church and selling sandwiches. He spends his days on crowded buses and in the streets delivering food. Resigned and aloof, in free moments he plays with his phone and looks for random sex. When he meets Luis, José is thrust into a dimension of passion and pain and self-reflection that was previously unimaginable.
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Cast
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Enrique Salanic
José
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Manolo Herrera
Luis
Ana Cecilia Mota
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Jhakelyn Waleska Gonzalez Gonzalez
Esteban López
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Cesar Lorenzo Yojcom Candido
Juan Andres Molina Cardona
Alba Irene Lemus
Carlos Humberto Fuentes Maldonado
Jennifer Cecilia Amoia Mota
Evelyn Celinda Bautista Torres
Jashua Belvino Argueta Mejia
Li Cheng Director · George F. Roberson Screenplay Chen Yao Composer
Worldwide gross $27K · United States release January 31, 2020 · Produced in Guatemala, United States
Box office
Worldwide gross
$26,563
Production
YQstudio LLC
Production
Guatemala · United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Spanish
Release dates
Italy · September 6, 2018
Premiere · Venice Film Festival
United States · January 31, 2020
Theatrical
United States
February 2, 2019 · Premiere · Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Argentina
June 27, 2019 · Premiere · Espacio Queer Film Fest
Australia
February 24, 2019 · Premiere · Mardi Gras Film Festival
Belgium
January 9, 2020 · Premiere · Pink Screens Film Festival
Brazil
October 20, 2018 · Premiere · São Paulo International Film Festival
Canada
May 28, 2019 · Premiere · Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival
China
June 11, 2019 · Premiere · ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival
Colombia
October 22, 2018 · Premiere · Bogota Film Festival
Costa Rica
May 30, 2019 · Premiere · Nos Film Fest
Cuba
December 7, 2018 · Premiere · Havana Film Festival
Denmark
October 30, 2019 · Premiere · MIX Copenhagen
France
November 22, 2018 · Premiere · Nantes Three Continents Festival
Germany
October 17, 2019 · Premiere · Hamburg International Queer Film Festival
Greece
November 9, 2018 · Premiere · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Guatemala
November 23, 2019 · Premiere · La Otra Banqueta Film Festival
Hong Kong SAR China
March 27, 2019 · Premiere · Hong Kong International Film Festival
India
June 15, 2019 · Premiere · KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival
Ireland
March 2, 2019 · Premiere · Dublin Film Festival
Israel
June 7, 2019 · Premiere · TLVFest - The Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival
Mexico
October 24, 2019 · Premiere · Cuorum Morelia Film Festival
Netherlands
March 16, 2019 · Premiere · Roze Filmdagen Amsterdam LGBT Film Festival
Norway
March 5, 2019 · Premiere · Trondheim Internasjonale Filmfestival
Panama
April 5, 2019 · Premiere · International Film Festival of Panama
Peru
August 11, 2019 · Premiere · Lima Latin American Film Festival
Philippines
October 14, 2019 · Premiere · QCinema International Film Festival
Poland
April 5, 2019 · Premiere · LGBT Film Festival
Serbia
February 23, 2019 · Premiere · FEST International Film Festival
Slovakia
November 22, 2018 · Premiere · Bratislava International Film Festival
South Korea
November 8, 2019 · Premiere · Seoul Pride International Film Festival
Spain
November 14, 2019 · Premiere · Madrid International LGBT Film Festival
Sweden
January 28, 2019 · Premiere · Göteborg Film Festival
Switzerland
January 17, 2019 · Premiere · Black Movie Film Festival
Türkiye
April 10, 2019 · Premiere · Istanbul Film Festival
United Kingdom
February 27, 2019 · Premiere · Glasgow Film Festival
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