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Hold Me Like Before

Country: Costa Rica, Language: Spanish, 63 mins

Original Title

Abrázame Como Antes
  • Director: Jurgen Ureña
  • Writer: Jurgen Ureña

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With its sensitive portrayal of trans women employed in sex work, Hold Me Like Before captures an intelligent and intimate part of Costa Rica that is rarely portrayed on film.

Verónica (luminous newcomer Jimena Franco) is driven by a need to help people. When a cab she is riding in hits street kid, Tato, she immediately brings him home and tends to his injuries. Verónica’s roommate Greta thinks Tato is trouble but Verónica only sees someone in need of a hand.

Drawing well-earned comparisons to Tangerine, Hold Me Like Before’s minimalist plot is rife with emotion and longing, slowly and quietlyworking its way into your heart, where it will stay.


Unas chicas trans son las protagonistas de esta historia de ficción que nos permite, sin moralinas, asomarnos a una cotidianidad y a una visión de mundo oculta para la mayoría. Abrázame como antes nos recuerda que la noche josefina, al igual que la gente que la habita, tiene varias dimensiones y se resiste a ser encasillada. Sinopsis por Natalia Solórzano.


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Cast & Characters

Jimena Franco