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Winner of Un Certain Regard at Cannes, Diego Céspedes’s debut feature pays luminous tribute to human resilience in inhumane times. Equal parts Chilean Western, dark fairy tale, and chosen-family hangout movie, this gorgeous work of queer magical realism finds love thriving amid sickness and hatred.

Tending to still-open wounds left by the Vietnam War, Minh Quý Trương’s transfixing and redolent film excavates spectral histories, once buried under the sands of time. Lighting up the darkest pits of the earth, coruscating touches between furtive lovers burn with the fieriness of queer passions.