Things We Dare Not Do / Cosas que no hacemos), the second feature film by Mexican director and cinematographer Bruno Santamaría, will have its U.S. premiere in the Documentary and Out-look competitions at the 56th annual edition of the Chicago International Film Festival.
Acclaimed at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Film Festival where it had its world premiere, Things We Dare Not Do offers a choral portrait of a small seaside village on Mexico’s Pacific coast, featuring sixteen-year-old Ñoño, a teenager who dances, runs, and plays with the free spirit of the younger kids he hangs around. But when an incident disrupts the seemingly idyllic atmosphere, Ñoño bravely takes the bold step of coming out to his parents, telling them he wants to dress as a woman.
"Stunning.... a visually risk-taking, multilayered portrait of growing up and learning to live out loud” (Lauren Wissot, Filmmaker Magazine), executive produced by Film of Vision and winner of the Best Film New Directors Award at the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival and the Best Documentary Award at the Lima Film Festival, the film will be available to stream for the Midwestern audiences (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri), between October 14-25, 2020.
With an exquisite cinematography by the director himself, the film takes the contemporary struggle for queer identity out of the usual urban setting, providing a fresh perspective on the issue and and a moving tale of emancipation.
