José
A simple story about love
Directed by Li Cheng
Produced by YQstudio LLC
A melancholic intimate portrait of a young man in a constrained, impoverished life who discovers transformative passion and vulnerability through an unexpected romantic connection.
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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