Santiago Magill

Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.

Fantasies, those states of mind that can be fleeting or eternal, are the central theme of the film. A man in his fifties, remarried to a younger and very beautiful woman, imagines for a long moment—the length of the film—a relationship between his wife and his 20-year-old son. Within the story—and the fantasy—there is a complex network of time periods that makes it impossible to separate reality from imagination.

Based on the alleged autobiography of gay peruvian talk show host Jaime Bailey. Joaquin, a young man from the high class of Lima, deals with problems concerning his sexual identity as a child, then as a teenager pressured by his macho snobbish father, then as an independent lazy pot-smoking college student, and later as a cocaine addict in Lima and Miami.

After exhausting all legal channels in his search for a job, "M" struggles with the decision of whether or not to enter a life of crime by helping his friends deliver drugs to Miami.

A gay actor tries to win back his lover, who has gone straight following a tragic disco-ball accident.

Pobre diabla is a Peruvian telenovela which starred Angie Cepeda, Salvador del Solar, Arnaldo André and María Cristina Lozada. It was produced by América Producciónes and broadcast on América Televisión in 2000.