Hari Sama

Hari Sama is a Mexican gay filmmaker known for This Is Not Berlin (Esto no es Berlín, 2019), which premiered at Sundance and follows a teenager's immersion into Mexico City's underground art and queer party scene in 1986 — a vivid, unapologetic portrait of gay desire and artistic bohemia in 1980s Mexico during the AIDS era. Sama has spoken about drawing on autobiographical experience in the film and about the queer artistic communities that shaped him.