International Competition

A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the preproduction of his first film, where the young queer scene of Medellín was casted, but the main protagonist died of a heroin overdose at the age of 21, just like many friends of the director. He is trying to evoke the film he and his friends could never make together, about the lack of future for his generation, caused by suicide and drugs, but also by the oppression of a conservative society, which tries to exterminate anything that would challenge the status quo. Showing us how hard it is to be young and queer in Medellín, Anhell69 explores the dreams, doubts and fears of an annihilated generation, and the struggle to carry on making cinema.