Frameline49: Keep Coming Back

(Siempre vuelven)

US Premiere

For his feature directorial debut, Sergio de León weaves surreal imagery, offbeat humor, and a shitload of birds into one of the most vivid and original queer coming of age films in recent memory.

Eighteen-year-old Emilio (Bruce Pintos, an actor with a face for cinema making their film debut) can hardly keep his hormones under control when he’s faced with handling a cursed inheritance of a rural dovecote for carrier pigeons following the death of his mother. Looking to settle his mother’s debts, Emilio and his mother’s boyfriend Juan (singer and musician Juan Wauters) uncover a legacy of local bird racing championship prizes in their pigeon coop, inspiring them to begin training their feathered flock for an upcoming race.

As Emilio navigates a weighty cocktail of new, all-consuming sensations (grief, lust, and romantic longing), de León drapes every turn in Keep Coming Back with inescapable plumage — from the town’s gay orgies to the mythical legend of an avian hero named Winkie.

Expected Guests

Sergio de León
Director

Content Advisory: Homophobic language.