RELEASE DATE
June,17 2014
PRODUCT DETAILS
- FORMAT: DVD
- SKU: CO4
- UPC: 854555004293
- ISBN: 978-1-939196-16-3
- NUMBER OF DISCS: 1
- COUNTRY: Cuba, Spain
- RATING: Not rated
- YEAR: 2013
- LENGTH: 94 Minutes
- AUDIO: Spanish with English Subtitles
- ASPECT RATIO: 1.85:1
- COLOR: Color
- BONUS MATERIAL: Coming Soon
FESTIVALS
- Frameline: SF LGBT Int’l Film Festival
- Outfest
- Philadelphia QFest
- Newfest
- Tampa International Gay & Lesbian FF
- Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
- Ft. Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
- Boston LGBT Film Festival
- U. of W. Eau Queer Film Festival
- Image Out Rochester LGBT Film Festival
- Fresno Reel Pride
- Cinema Diverse: Palm Springs Gay Lesbian FF
- South West Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
- Reeling (Chicago LGTB International FF)
- OUTrageous: Santa Barbara LGBTQ Film Festival
GALLERY
SYNOPSIS
Romantic and super sexy, this drama concerns an intense love affair between two hitherto heterosexual young men in the slums of Havana. Reiner and Yosvani are best friends and soccer mates. Handsome Reinier, in order to support his mother, wife and baby, prostitutes himself older male foreigners while the shy Yosvani is reluctantly engaged to a girl and lives with her bombastic loan shark father. After a furtive kiss at a nightclub, the two young men, barely containing their pent-up desire, follow-up with a lusty roof top encounter, where they quickly fall hard for one another. And as their love intensifies, the challenge is not with them but with the unforgiving outside world… a world they so desperately want to escape from. The two leads, Reinier Diaz and Milton García, deliver charismatic and captivating performances as the sexually-charged lovers in this unforgettable drama by director Antonio Hens (Clandestinos).
CREDITS
Director: Antonio Hens
Running time: 94 minutes
Country: Cuba, Spain
Language: Spanish with English Subtitles
Screenwriters: Abel González Melo, Antonio Hens
Cast: Milton García, Reinier Diaz, Luis Alberto García
Producer: Antonio Hens
Cinematographer: Yanelvis González
TRAILER
NEWS & INTERVIEWS
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Reinier works as a callboy in order to support his wife and child, but he ends up gambling most of his money away. Sex with men is strictly business until he befriends a cute soccer player named Yosvani, who works for his girlfriend’s father, a corrupt debt collector. When Reinier’s gambling habit gets him in serious trouble, Yosvani tries to convince Reinier to run away with him. Set in the bustling streets of Cuba, THE LAST MATCH offers a visceral romance ripe with unexpected turns and dangerous temptations.
FILM REVIEWS
EDGELOSANGELES.COM: THE LAST MATCH REVIEW
The films that are currently emerging from behind the veil of Cuba reveal more about our neighbors inside the secretive jewel of the Caribbean off the coast of south Florida. Narratives built on defined and strong character development, without compromise to the complexities of a culture and people rich in history and fearlessly embracing the art of filmmaking, are capturing snapshots of a society working to remain relevant in a world that is moving at light speed. “La Partida,” a film by Antonio Hens, bravely exposes the passions of forbidden love in a society that does little to nothing in coveting its gay expression. [Read the entire article here!]
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Born in Cordoba, Spain, Antonio Hens studied English Language and Literature in Granada University and Film Making at the ECAM, the official Spanish film school. He steadily works for the television producing TV series since 1998 and runs the production company Malas Compañías PC, SL since 1996. He has directed three shorts, all of them internationally awarded. He directed the hit gay film Clandestinos in 2007. The Last Match is his second directorial feature.