‘Thesis on a Domestication’ Trailer: Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna Produced Movie Pushes the Boundaries of Trans Representation (EXCLUSIVE)
Holly Jones Domestic bliss and a fruitful career collide with latent trauma and erotic expression in the teaser trailer for Argentine helmer Javier Van de Couter’s latest project, “Thesis on a Domestication” (“Tesis sobre una domesticación”), shared exclusively with Variety.
Backed by Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna’s ambitious Mexican production company La Corriente del Golfo (“State of Silence”), the film will compete for the Q Hugo Award, bowing globally as it screens within the LGBTQ+ focused Outlook program at the Chicago International Film Festival, running Oct.16-27, before heading on to Morelia.
Buenos Aires-based Aurora Cine founder Laura Huberman (“El perro que no calla”), Ramiro Pavón at Argentina’s Oh My Gomez! Films (“El perfecto David”), Van de Couter and La Corriente del Golfo’s Lorena Cándano de la Peza, Mónica Pérez and Kyzza Terrazas produce the project alongside Bernal and Luna, their companies’ ever-championing bold narratives that add to the cannon of boundary-pushing Latin cinema.
The narrative is based on a forthcoming novel written by acclaimed trans multi-hyphenate Camila Sosa Villada-set for English-language publication by Riverhead Books in 2026.
