"The Delta"

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Film still from"The Delta," directed by Ira Sachs (USA, 1996).

The Delta, Ira Sachs (USA, 1996)

Lincoln, a teenager from a well-off Jewish family, appears to lead an ordinary heterosexual life. Yet, on some nights, he secretly ventures out in search of men. When he meets a young Vietnamese immigrant, his hidden desires surface, forcing him to confront an internal struggle between love, desire and self-acceptance. The Delta offers a candid reflection on the search for identity in a world fraught with prejudice and complexity, where difference is often unwelcome.

A treasure of the 1990s’ New Queer Cinema, Ira Sachs’s incisive debut feature moodily evokes the wide space between dreams, desires and fulfillment in post–Vietnam War America via the romance between Lincoln, an affluent white teenager, and Minh, the immigrant son of a poor Vietnamese woman and a Black GI. The vivid setting is a little-seen, little-known Memphis, a city where kids get through their nights by drinking and doing drugs and gay men struggle with questions of personal identity and fulfillment.

Film will be screened in original version with subtitles in Catalan.

A film in the 2025 edition the Americana Film Festival.

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