Trendy Tropics - Mexico
Line up: Güeros, Gabo y Claudia, Cesar Salas

Second episode of Trendy Tropics, the series of films that confronts a simple paradox: Europe loves to talk about the Global South but rarely listens to it. Social media feeds overflow with opinions, outrage, and trending solidarities. Yet behind these circulating images, real lives remain abstract, distant, almost fictional. We want to reverse the gaze. Films from Africa, Latin America and Asia speak back not as case studies, not as moral lessons, but as lived realities, contradictions and all that comes with it. Ventilator wants to invite audiences to step beyond the comfort of “awareness” and into the unsettling space of genuine encounter. With screenings, live music, shared food, and an open space for confrontation, Trendy Tropics merges art and activism not to make us feel better about the world, but to see it more clearly.

19.00 Doors open

Around 19.30 screening Güeros (2014)

21.30 Gabo y Claudia 

Güeros (2014), directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios, follows Sombra and his younger brother, Tomás, as they search for a forgotten folk singer during the student strikes in Mexico City. The story captures their journey through a city undergoing a time of change.

Gabo y Claudia will close the evening by sharing a selection of sweet, well-known Latin American songs to soothe our hearts.

And don't forget, Gabo's delicious Mexican tamales and town's best Tres-leches will be served too.