Wicked Queer 32

Viva

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Thu, Mar 31 @ 8:00 pm

Institute of Contemporary Art

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Director

Paddy Breathnach

Year

2015

Run Time

100

min

Country

Cuba, Ireland

Language

Spanish

PROGRAM Time

minutes

CONTENT WARNING:

VIVA stars Héctor Medina as Jesus, a young hairdresser working at a Havana nightclub that showcases drag performers, who dreams of being a performer himself. Encouraged by his mentor, Mama (Luis Alberto García), Jesus finally gets his chance to take the stage. But when his estranged father Angel (Jorge Perugorría) abruptly reenters his life, his world is quickly turned upside down. As father and son clash over their opposing expectations of each other, VIVA becomes a love story as the men struggle to understand one another and reconcile as a family. VIVA was a hit at the 2015 Telluride Film Festival, and is Ireland’s entry for the Best Foreign Film Academy Award this year.

This film is presented in Spanish with English subtitles.

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Hand in Hand

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Sarah Dempsey

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English

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Hand in Hand is a short Documentary that takes a look into same sex couples in Ireland. These couples talk about what they love about their partner, what they fight about to surrogacy and discrimination.

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