13 Nov

12:00

Rialto De Pijp

Ceintuurbaan 338, Amsterdam

A hybrid documentary reconstructing the director's queer childhood in 1990s Mexico City, exploring his sexuality and family's experience with the AIDS crisis.

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 12:00

Rialto De Pijp, Amsterdam

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Pathe Tuschinski, Amsterdam

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Pathe Tuschinski, Amsterdam

Mon, 16 Nov 2026 11:30

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Fri, 20 Nov 2026 20:00

Pathé Noord, Amsterdam

Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building

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Why is this film of queer interest?
The synopsis describes this film as a "playful, layered portrait of a queer childhood." It follows director Bruno Santamaría Razo as he revisits his youth in a free-thinking family, where he wore makeup and skirts and developed feelings for his best friend, all while discovering his sexuality against the backdrop of the 1990s AIDS crisis.

Synopsis

In this hybrid documentary, Bruno Santamaría Razo returns to his childhood. He reconstructs his family home and has actors reenact his memories. When Bruno’s real mother walks through the set and sees family photographs featuring the actors’ faces, an intimate dialogue between past and present emerges.

Together, they return to Mexico City in the early 1990s. Bruno celebrates his eleventh birthday in a free-thinking family; he wears makeup and skirts, his parents join in exuberantly, and he develops feelings for his best friend. In the background, word is going around that Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet is being filmed just around the corner, while panic over the AIDS crisis mounts on television. When the family learns that Bruno’s father has HIV, they try to keep the threatening reality at bay with humor, love, and music.

Fiction becomes a way of filling the gaps in Bruno’s memories of the time when he was discovering his sexuality and watching the virus transform the world both beyond and within his family. Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building is a playful, layered portrait of a queer childhood marked by fear, freedom, and resilience.