Miami Dade College's Miami Film Festival Los Frikis

Inspired by shocking true events, Los Frikis is a powerful coming-of-age story set in early 1990s Cuba. Gustavo (Eros de la Puente), 18, idolizes his older brother Paco (an astonishing Héctor Medina) and his punk, "Frikis" bandmates. When word reaches the Frikis of a potential reprieve from the effects of the economic crisis that plunged much of the country into poverty, they do the unthinkable: inject themselves with HIV to live at a government-run treatment home.