Argentinian director Lucio Castro follows up his fantastic debut film End of the Century (2019) with another story of love that plays with time and space. Consisting of five segments (all told out of order), the film follows art student Adnan across his relationships, exploring spaces where sexual fantasy and reality coexist. The five chapters serve as anecdotal evidence of Adnan’s sexual life with the lack of chronological order giving the film an unreal dreamlike quality that is both sexy and mythic. As with his first film, Castro explores the realities of queer life with delicacy and honesty. Drunken Noodles is a film about love and sex, but also about friendship and loneliness.

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These stories unfold in moments of quiet upheaval: a phone call before a wedding, a crisis in a small-town mosque, a young girl’s journey through myth, siblings fractured by grief. Centering queer, trans, and intersex lives across the SWANA region, this program honors the intimate revolutions that occur within families, faith, and the self.

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Fatima, 17, the youngest of three daughters, treads carefully as she searches for her own path, grappling with emerging desires, her attraction to women, and her loyalty to her caring French-Algerian family. Starting university in Paris, she dates, makes friends, and explores a whole new world, all while confronting a timeless and heartrending dilemma: How can one stay true to oneself when reconciling different parts of one’s identity feels impossible?

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