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A Year Without Love (2005)

A Year Without Love poster
Original title
Un año sin amor
Directed by
Anahí Berneri
Genre
drama film, biographical film, LGBTQ-related film
Country
Argentina
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
R
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A writer with AIDS looks for companionship by placing personal ads. He gets drawn into a hidden leather subculture in Buenos Aires while struggling with his daily life and illness.

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What happens

A Year Without Love (Spanish: Un año sin amor) is a 2005 Argentine drama film directed by Anahí Berneri, and written by Berneri and Pablo Pérez, adapting Pérez's autobiographical novel of the same title. The plot follows Pablo, a writer dealing with loneliness and AIDS. Yearning for love, he places ads in a gay magazine and finds himself involved in the secretive world of Buenos Aires gay leather scene. A Year Without Love played the international and gay and lesbian film festival circuits, garnering a number of awards including the Teddy Bear prize for the Best Gay Film at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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