Argentine gay film A Few Feet Away arrives on UK streaming this weekend

An Argentine gay film five years in the making is now streaming in the UK and it is worth your time

A Few Feet Away began as a student project in Buenos Aires, was interrupted by a pandemic, and premiered at BFI Flare in 2025. It arrives on UK streaming platforms on 25 May and it is not a film that rushes to reassure you.

There is a specific type of queer film that only gets made when nobody is watching. No distributor asking for a softened ending. No producer nervous about the sex scenes. No pressure to make the protagonist likeable in the ways mainstream audiences expect. A Few Feet Away is that film, and the fact that it exists at all is a small miracle of Argentine independent filmmaking.

Director Tadeo Pestaña Caro began developing the project at Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires under the mentorship of filmmakers Rodrigo Moreno and Juan Villegas, from a class assignment focused on filming the present. The screenplay was completed in 2019. Principal photography began in late 2019. Then the pandemic stopped everything. The team spent the forced pause refining the script through workshops and development labs. When production resumed, Pestaña Caro had spent five years working closely with lead actor Max Suen, not just rehearsing but building a shared language around performance, vulnerability and presence. That relationship is visible in every scene.

The film follows Santiago, a twenty-year-old working in a data centre by day and obsessively navigating gay hookup apps by night. One evening, moving between sex clubs and potential encounters in Buenos Aires, he begins to recognise something he has not yet been able to name: that sex and intimacy are not the same thing, and he does not know how to find the second. Pestaña Caro shoots the club sequences with deliberate style, using light and editing to convey the overwhelming texture of anonymous desire without sensationalising it. The film is interested in what happens after the app, not the app itself.

The film captures a coming-of-age story where the conflict no longer lies in accepting one's sexuality within a heteronormative society, but in affirming one's identity in a world where blocking or cancelling someone is always just a tap away. That shift in register — away from the traditional coming-out narrative toward something more contemporary and more complicated — is what makes the film feel genuinely of its moment. The project received support from Buenos Aires' Mecenazgo programme twice, and won both prizes from ABC BAFICI in 2023. It had its international premiere at BFI Flare in London in 2025.

The cast includes Jazmín Carballo, Esteban Kukuriczka and Martín Shanly alongside Suen, all drawn from Buenos Aires' independent theatre scene. Distributed in the UK by Cinephobia Releasing.

A Few Feet Away is available from 25 May on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, YouTube, Tubi, Pluto and additional VOD platforms in the UK and US. Spanish with English subtitles.