2024 | United States, Dominican Republic | Fiction

Los Frikis

  • Spanish English 105 mins
  • Director | Michael Schwartz, Tyler Nilson
  • Writer | Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz
  • Producer | Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Jordan Fudge, Jeremy Allen, Aditya Sood, Rebecca Karch Tomlinson, Michael Schwartz, Tyler Nilson

STATUS: Production

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Inspired by true events, Los Frikis is a powerful coming-of-age story set in early 90s Cuba, centering around 18-year-old Gustavo (Eros de la Puente) who idolizes his older brother Paco (an astonishing Héctor Medina) and his punk, "Frikis" bandmates. When word reaches the Frikis of a potential reprieve from the effects of the economic crisis, they do the now unthinkable: deliberately inject themselves with HIV to live at a government-run treatment home. It's there that they create their own utopia to live and play music freely.

Drama Coming-of-age Cuba True Events Punk Frikis fiction powerful older brother potential economic crisis government HIV
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