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Argentinean Queer Film Explores the High Cost of Denying Our Sexual Awakening (Exclusive)

Argentinean Queer Film Explores the High Cost of Denying Our Sexual Awakening (Exclusive)

Watch the provoactive trailer for director Papu Curotto's Esteros.

What happens when you never act on a childhood crush? 

Esteros follows two childhood friends, Matías (Ignacio Rogers) and Jerónimo (Esteban Masturini) who experience a sexual awakening together in rural Argentina. But when the boys suddenly move apart, they don't reunite until a decade later. Now Matías finds himself in a committed relationship with a woman, while his feelings for Jerónimo remain uneasily suppressed. 

"The story of Esteros is very personal to me, not only because it’s my first film, but because it recreates moments that I experienced as a child," says director Papu Curotto, who transformed his short film Matías y Jerónimo—about two young boys who witness a hate crime—into the feature-length Esteros. 

"We have all been secretly in love with a friend when we were kids, but it was something we could not say because we knew it was forbidden," Curotto continues. "I wanted to tell a story about love and because it’s the story of a first love, it’s left etched in your memory forever."

Watch the trailer for Esteros below:

ESTEROS (2016) - exclusive trailer from Cinema Tropical on Vimeo.

Esteros will open Friday, November 18 in Los Angeles, followed by a VOD Release.

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