Spanish filmmaker Ian de la Rosa makes his big entry onto the film festival circuit with Iván & Hadoum – a TorinoFilmLab workshopped project that was selected for the upcoming Berlin International Film Festival’s Panorama section. The feature debut a contemporary love story set in his native Spain, in the exclusive clip we find Hadoum (Herminia Loh) showing Iván (Silver Chicón) the ropes in the distribution portion of the greenhouse. Iván falls in love with his newly hired co-worker, Hadoum. But his long-awaited promotion interferes with their relationship, forcing Iván to decide what kind of person he wants to be.
On paper makes a case for intimacy as resistance, an individuals carving out space for self-recognition amid social, familial, and economic pressures while also making room for notions of place and memory, and profiling one trans experience as transformative. Here is our exclusive clip below – world premiere is this Friday February 13th:
