Film Data

Name: The Day Began Yesterday | El día comenzó ayer
Director: Julián Hernández
Released: 2020
Duration: 31 min

Original Title

El día comenzó ayer

English Title

The Day Began Yesterday

Director

Julián Hernández

Genre

Drama

Production year

2020

Language

Spanish

Production country

Mexico

Subtitles

Themes

HIV, LGBTQI+

Runtime (minutes)

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.

About the Director

Julián Hernández

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 five 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) and Demons at Dawn (2024). Hernández has also directed, among others, the short films 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.

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