Outwatch Wine Country’s Lgbtqi Film Festival Film Series

Wednesday. March 11 @ 7 p.m. Winner of multiple awards, “José” is a gripping, layered and beautifully honest story about one working-class young man’s struggle to find himself. Made in the neorealist filmmaking tradition, the film is a nuanced and vivid look at being gay in Central America. José lives with his mother in Guatemala City, where they survive on her selling sandwiches at bus stops and with him working at a restaurant. In this sometimes dangerous country, dominated by conservative religions, living his life as an openly gay man is hard for José to imagine. When he meets attractive and gentle Luis (Manolo Herrera), a migrant from the rural coast, they pursue an unexpected relationship with more emotion than José has ever felt. He is thrust into new passion and pain, and self-reflection, that push him to rethink his life. The Spanish-language film is presented with English subtitles.