This Is Not Berlin
In the 1980s, an outsider gets invited to a mythical nightclub where he's unleashed to punk, sexual liberty and drugs. Seventeen-year-old Carlos doesn't fit in anywhere, not in his family nor with the…
This Is Not Berlin
In the 1980s, an outsider gets invited to a mythical nightclub where he's unleashed to punk, sexual liberty and drugs. Seventeen-year-old Carlos doesn't fit in anywhere, not in his family nor with the friends he has chosen in school. But everything changes when he is invited to a mythical nightclub where he discovers the underground nightlife scene: punk, sexual liberty and drugs. —Production Questioning his role within the soul thieving conformity of mid-'80s Mexico City, 17-year-old Carlos is loath to participate in adolescent machismo antics, preferring instead to tinker with electronics while listening to classic rock. He has a kindred spirit and best friend in Gera and a burgeoning infatuation with Gera's untouchably cool sister Rita, an artist at ease with her outsider status. When Rita invites them to see her band at infamous avant-garde club the Aztec, they're introduced to an uninhibited world of performance art, edgy music, and sexual fluidity-welcome counteragents to two-fisted teen politics and the imminent threat of adulthood. Inspired by club owner and progressive artist Nico, wide-eyed Carlos experiments with identity politics, tasting the forbidden fruits of hedonism at the expense of Gera's devotion. —Mae Moreno Mexico City, 1986: While half of Mexico eagerly awaits the World Cup, 17-year-old Carlos remains an outsider at school. It is only when his best friend Gera introduces him to the legendary Club Azteca that Carlos discovers the wild underground scene-a world full of parties, art, excess, and sexual freedom. Here he experiences a joyful escape from his restrictive circumstances and begins to question his relationship with Gera. Hari Sama tells a captivating and musical story of coming of age in times of upheaval - and of the formation of a queer community in 1980s Mexico. The young actors bring the artistic rebellion and ambivalence of that era to life with furious energy. —ARD
This Is Not Berlin
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In the 1980s, an outsider gets invited to a mythical nightclub where he's unleashed to punk, sexual liberty and drugs. Seventeen-year-old Carlos doesn't fit in anywhere, not in his family nor with the friends he has chosen in school. But everything changes when he is invited to a mythical nightclub where he discovers the underground nightlife scene: punk, sexual liberty and drugs.
—Production Questioning his role within the soul thieving conformity of mid-'80s Mexico City, 17-year-old Carlos is loath to participate in adolescent machismo antics, preferring instead to tinker with electronics while listening to classic rock. He has a kindred spirit and best friend in Gera and a burgeoning infatuation with Gera's untouchably cool sister Rita, an artist at ease with her outsider status. When Rita invites them to see her band at infamous avant-garde club the Aztec, they're introduced to an uninhibited world of performance art, edgy music, and sexual fluidity-welcome counteragents to two-fisted teen politics and the imminent threat of adulthood.
Inspired by club owner and progressive artist Nico, wide-eyed Carlos experiments with identity politics, tasting the forbidden fruits of hedonism at the expense of Gera's devotion. —Mae Moreno Mexico City, 1986: While half of Mexico eagerly awaits the World Cup, 17-year-old Carlos remains an outsider at school. It is only when his best friend Gera introduces him to the legendary Club Azteca that Carlos discovers the wild underground scene-a world full of parties, art, excess, and sexual freedom.
Here he experiences a joyful escape from his restrictive circumstances and begins to question his relationship with Gera. Hari Sama tells a captivating and musical story of coming of age in times of upheaval - and of the formation of a queer community in 1980s Mexico. The young actors bring the artistic rebellion and ambivalence of that era to life with furious energy.
—ARD.