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This Is Not Berlin
This Is Not Berlin
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368 Ratings

THIS IS NOT BERLIN

Esto no es Berlín

Directed by Hari Sama
Mexico, 2019
Drama, LGBTQ+

Synopsis

The year is 1986, and World Cup fever has hit Mexico. 17-year-old Carlos doesn’t fit in anywhere: not in his family nor with the friends he has at school. But everything changes when he is invited to a mythical, underground nightclub where he discovers post punk, drugs, politics and sexual fluidity.

Synopsis

The year is 1986, and World Cup fever has hit Mexico. 17-year-old Carlos doesn’t fit in anywhere: not in his family nor with the friends he has at school. But everything changes when he is invited to a mythical, underground nightclub where he discovers post punk, drugs, politics and sexual fluidity.

Our take

A heady plunge into the underground excesses of 1980s Mexico City, Hari Sama’s coming-of-age film roars with a youthful thirst for love, revolt, and the catharsis of art. Rebelling against the nostalgia for artistic hedonism, this subversive time capsule questions the ethics of the creative process.