José (2020)

José lives with his mother in Guatemala: a tough life in one of the world's most dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. José is her youngest and favorite child, and her life is going to church and selling sandwiches. He spends his days on crowded buses and in the streets delivering food. Resigned and aloof, in free moments he plays with his phone and looks for random sex. When he meets Luis, José is thrust into a dimension of passion and pain and self-reflection that was previously unimaginable.

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Top billed cast

Enrique SalanicJosé
Manolo HerreraLuis
Ana Cecilia MotaMom
Jhakelyn Waleska Gonzalez Gonzalez
Esteban López
Cesar Lorenzo Yojcom Candido
Juan Andres Molina Cardona
Alba Irene Lemus
Carlos Humberto Fuentes Maldonado
Jennifer Cecilia Amoia Mota

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