''Tremors'' () is a 2019 Guatemalan-French

drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a g ...

film written and directed by

Jayro Bustamante Jayro Bustamante (; born 7 May 1977) is a Guatemalan film director and screenwriter. He directed the 2015 film '' Ixcanul'', which was selected as the Guatemalan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards. He was named ...

. It stars Juan Pablo Olyslager as Pablo, a religious man in conversion therapy who is coping with the aftermath of having come out as

gay ''Gay'' is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'. While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late ...

after having spent many years married to a woman and fathering children. The film premiered in the Panorama program at the

69th Berlin International Film Festival The 69th annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 7 to 17 February 2019. French actress Juliette Binoche served as the Jury President. Lone Scherfig's drama film '' The Kindness of Strangers'' opened the festival. The Golden ...

. It was subsequently screened at the 2019

San Sebastián International Film Festival The San Sebastián International Film Festival ( SSIFF; , ) is an annual FIAPF A category film festival held in the Spain, Spanish city of Donostia, Donostia-San Sebastián in September, in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Countr ...

, where it won the Sebastiane Latino Award for best Latin American LGBTQ-themed film."“Temblores”: Denuncia a las llamadas terapias de curación gay"
''Cinemagavia'', February 11, 2020. Background actors: Gerson Estrada (Cassandra) and Carmelita Guerra.

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* 2019 films 2019 drama films 2019 LGBTQ-related films Guatemalan drama films French drama films French LGBTQ-related films 2010s LGBTQ-related drama films Gay-related films Films about conversion therapy Films directed by Jayro Bustamante 2010s French films Guatemalan LGBTQ-related films {{Guatemala-film-stub