Among the seven films (six debuts) we find in this year’s Critics’ Week competition line-up we find Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building by filmmaker Bruno Santamaría Razo. The Mexico City born director, writer and cinematographer often blends intimate realism with explorations of gender identity, childhood, memory and marginalized communities. His debut came with docus Margarita (2016) and Things We Dare Not Do (2020) — a coming-of-age documentary that focuses on queer identity in a remote coastal village. His fiction debut is semi-autobiographical works with themes of memory and childhood revisited. Produced by Ojo de Vaca Productora’s Bruna Haddad and Carlos Quiñónez (along with Razo), this was co-produced by Desvia Films’ Rachel Daisy Ellis, Camille Reis, Snowglobe’s Giulia Triolo and Katrin Pors), Seis meses en el edificio rosa con azul world premieres next Tuesday on May 19th — Luxbox are handling sales. We have the poster exclusive below:
Mexico, early 90s. Bruno grows up in a happy, carefree family. On his eleventh birthday, as he learns his father is ill, this zest for life takes over. Everyone keeps on singing and dancing to ward off fate, like in a salsa song. Thirty years later, Bruno films and revisits the memories he couldn’t quite fathom as a child.
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