aGLIFF: Viva
Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival presents: Viva, a film by Paddy Breathnach
Ireland/Cuba, 2016, Drama, 100 min
Spanish with English subtitles 
Starring: Héctor Medina, Jorge Perugorría, Luis Alberto García
Wednesday, April 20th, 2016, 7:30 pm
S. Lamar Alamo Drafthouse
1120 S Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78704
Tel: (512)861-7040
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival co-presents this program in partnership with the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival. Invite your Friends!
Synopsis
A young hairdresser (Héctor Medina) does makeup for a troupe of drag performers in Havana, but dreams of being a performer. When he finally gets his chance to be on stage, a stranger emerges from the crowd and punches him in the face. The stranger is his father (Jorge Perugorría), a former boxer, who has been absent from his life for 15 years. As estranged father and son clash over their opposing expectations of each other, Viva becomes a love story as the men struggle to understand one another and become a family again. – Written by aGLIFF
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