The Day Began Yesterday

by Julián Hernández
Category
Director
Julián Hernández
Country / Year
Mexico, 2020
Genre
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Rights
Festivals, Sales
Length
31′, col.

SYNOPSIS

Orlando and Saul meet by accident. The first one is a self-confident young man, university gymnast who avoids that his HIV-positive status defines him; while Saul, on the opposite, is insecure and barely understands what having an active sexual life means. The meeting will result in a new way of seeing life, one without fear where sex is an encounter and not a way of getting away from others.

DIRECTOR

Julián Hernández is born in Mexico City in 1972 and he graduated in film from the state University UNAM. Among his previous works are the feature films Broken Sky (2006), A Thousand Clouds of Peace Fence the Sky, Love, Your Being Love Will Never End  (2003), winner of the Teddy Award at Berlin Film Festival and Raging Sun, Raging Sky, winner of the same Award but in 2009. His four last features, all represented by The Open Reel, are: I Am Happiness on Earth (2014), Tattoo of Revenge (2018), Asphalt Goddess (2019), The Trace of Your Lips (2023). Hernández has also directed the short films Por encima del abismo de la desesperación (1996), Hubo un tiempo en que los sueños dieron paso a largas noches de insomnio (1997), Bramadero (2007), Vago rumor de mares en zozobra (2008), Atmósfera (2010), Wandering Clouds (2013), Young Man at the Bar Masturbating with Rage and Nerve (2015), Boys on the Rooftop (2016) and The Day Began Yesterday (2020). Two Amongst Many (2022) and Cobalto (2023) are his last short productions.

    • Title
      The Day Began Yesterday
    • Rights
      Festivals, Sales
    • Country
      Mexico
    • Year
      2020
    • Length
      31′, col.
    • Director
      Julián Hernández
    • Screenplay
      Ulises Pérez Mancilla, Julián Hernández, based upon the essay Las causas ocultas by Saúl Sánchez Lovera
    • Editing
      Emiliano Arenales Osorio
    • Photography
      Alejandro Cantú
    • Music
      Arturo Villela Vega
    • Sound
      Armando Narváez del Valle, Daniel Rojo
    • Art Director
      David Solis
    • Cast
      Esteban Caicedo, Cristhian Díaz Cruz, Alfredo Veldáñez, Javier Oliván, Hugo Catalán, Mauricio Rico
    • Producer
      Roberto Fiesco, Iliana Reyes
    • Production
      Mil Nubes Cine, with Indomable Cine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), TVUNAM, Revolution 435 D&C
    • Shorts Mexico Mexico City 2020 – National Competition
    • Morelia International Film Festival 2020 – Short Film Competition
    • ZeFestival Nice, Marseille, 2020
    • Festival Chéries Chéris 2020 – Short Film Competition
    • Seoul International Pride Film Festival 2020
    • Queerscreen LGBTQI Film Festival France 2021
    • Kashish Film Festival Mumbai 2021
    • Cineteca Nacional Mexico City 2021 – Retrospective Julián Hernández
    • Outfest Peru Lima 2021 – Short Film Competition
    • Mix Mexico Mexico City 2021 – Rosa Mexicano
    • Rumbo al Ariel Mexico City 2021
    • QFest Houston 2021
    • VIHsible Lima 2021
    • Muestra de Cine LGBTI+ de Cantabria Santander 2021
    • Mix Mexico Mexico City 2023
    • Cuorum Morelia 2024 – Tribute Julián Hernández
    • Playa del Carmen Queer Film Festival 2024
    • Cinema Trianon Athens 2024
    • Ariel Awards 2021 – Nominated Best Short Film
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