USA / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 2024
Directors: Tyler Nilson & Michael Schwartz
Drama / Spanish with English subtitles / 105 minutes
Producer Rebecca Karch Tomlinson, along with actor Eros de la Puente, will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A. After party at Hey Love (920 SE Burnside St. Portland), located in the lobby of Jupiter NEXT Hotel. Music by local DJ Papi Fimbres.
Inspired by true events, LOS FRIKIS is a powerful coming-of-age story set in early 1990s Cuba, centering around 18-year-old Gustavo (Eros de la Puente) who idolizes his older brother Paco (Héctor Medina) and his punk "Frikis" bandmates. When word reaches the Frikis of a potential reprieve from the effects of the economic crisis, they do the unthinkable: deliberately inject themselves with HIV to live at a government-run treatment home. It's there that they create their own utopia to live and play music freely.
Anchored by both a palpable sense of dread and a youthful spirit of hope, LOS FRIKIS is the latest film from Tyler Nilson & Michael Schwartz, the filmmaking duo behind 2019’s breakout hit, THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON. Produced by Academy-Award winning producers, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE, THE LEGO MOVIE), and starring Adria Arjona, Hector Medina and Eros de la Puente, LOS FRIKIS is a brilliant recollection of “Special Period” Cuba.
Directors: Tyler Nilson & Michael Schwartz
Drama / Spanish with English subtitles / 105 minutes
Producer Rebecca Karch Tomlinson, along with actor Eros de la Puente, will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A. After party at Hey Love (920 SE Burnside St. Portland), located in the lobby of Jupiter NEXT Hotel. Music by local DJ Papi Fimbres.
Inspired by true events, LOS FRIKIS is a powerful coming-of-age story set in early 1990s Cuba, centering around 18-year-old Gustavo (Eros de la Puente) who idolizes his older brother Paco (Héctor Medina) and his punk "Frikis" bandmates. When word reaches the Frikis of a potential reprieve from the effects of the economic crisis, they do the unthinkable: deliberately inject themselves with HIV to live at a government-run treatment home. It's there that they create their own utopia to live and play music freely.
Anchored by both a palpable sense of dread and a youthful spirit of hope, LOS FRIKIS is the latest film from Tyler Nilson & Michael Schwartz, the filmmaking duo behind 2019’s breakout hit, THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON. Produced by Academy-Award winning producers, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE, THE LEGO MOVIE), and starring Adria Arjona, Hector Medina and Eros de la Puente, LOS FRIKIS is a brilliant recollection of “Special Period” Cuba.
Language: Spanish with English Subtitles
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