Desde allá (2015)

Armando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a criminal gang, and that meeting changes their lives forever.

Director:

Lorenzo Vigas

Writers:

Lorenzo Vigas (screenplay), Guillermo Arriaga (based on a story by)

Stars:

Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva, Jericó Montilla

10 wins & 25 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Alfredo Castro	...	Armando
Luis Silva	...	Elder
Jericó Montilla	...	Amelia
Catherina Cardozo	...	Maria
Jorge Luis Bosque	...	Fernando
Greymer Acosta	...	Palma
Auffer Camacho	...	Mermelada
Ivan Peña	...	Yoni
Joretsis Ibarra	...	Deysi
Yeimar Peralta	...	Yerlin
Scarlett Jaimes	...	Yuli
Ernesto Campos	...	Kleiber
Marcos Moreno	...	Manuel
Armando Volcanes	...	Padrino quinceañera
Jesús Las Rosas	...	Roca

Storyline

Armando, a middle-aged owner of a Caracas dental prosthesis business, is estranged from his father, who he observes occasionally from a distance. He finds a young man of the streets who negotiates a fee high enough for the boy to be used to provide Armando's masturbatory object. Although a following encounter ends in a beating for Armando, he continues to make the boy dependent. What is the final result that Armando desires? Is it something more than a conflicted relationship with a hustler?

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Plot Keywords:

beating | bare chested male | gay | male nudity | male rear nudity | 

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

Venezuela Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

2 September 2016 (Venezuela)

Also Known As:

From Afar

Filming Locations:

Caracas, Venezuela

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$5,136, 12 June 2016, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$30,108, 28 August 2016

Company Credits

Production Co:

Factor RH Producciones, Malandro Films, Lucia Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

D-Cinema 48kHz 5.1 D-Cinema 48kHz 7.1

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Official submission of Venezuela for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 89th Academy Awards in 2017.

User Reviews

Really bad — it deserves little attention

After seeing this incomparably BAD Venezuelan movie today at the Miami Film Festival I couldn't understand how it could have ever won the Golden Lion (main prize) at the Venice Film Festival 2015, unless the members of the jury had been drugged or were profoundly drunk. I went and searched to see who had been the members of the jury and found the answer right away: Alfonso Cuarón was the president, and in movie festivals the selection of the president is decisive. Cuarón just wanted to favor a Latinamerican director, that was all. This TERRIBLE film is defective from all points of views, and it would not even pass a Cinema 101 exam. That's probably the reason why it has been shown in a few festivals but it hasn't had regular distribution, and the opinion of the critics has not been very helpful to it. On top of all that it is incredibly boring... Go at your own risk.