Llamame Mateo

Lucca, a young trans man from the outskirts of São Paulo, travels to Foz do Iguaçu — at the crossroads of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina—in search of the father he never knew. There, he meets Diego, a Paraguayan who introduces him to the secrets of the borderland.

Paraguay, late 1950s and early 1960s, and much later. During the stroniste dictatorship, several militants of the opposition MOPOCO party were exiled. Based in different parts of Argentina, they continue militating through letters. Today, your grandchildren read these letters.

A drag queen singer’s boyfriend tells him that he is HIV positive. Between ballads and performances, he will experience intense and sensitive hours, as his convictions are shaken. Ángel Molina, a Paraguayan filmmaker and drag performer himself, exposes a heartfelt story of disarming sincerity, of (in)comprehension and love that never fades.

A man and a teenager live in a house in the middle of the woods. The idea of an impossible closeness.