The Mexican film 'Tijuana, todavía', filmed in Tijuana, will have its world premiere at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on September 5. ^[1] Chava and Maksim meet anonymously through a dating app, and after migration policies change and international appointments are cancelled, Maksim becomes vulnerable and they meet in person, leading to a relationship confronting exile and home. ^[2] The film follows Chava, a man near 50 who sings in a gay choir and works at a family car wash, and Maksim, a young queer man who fled Saint Petersburg to avoid conscription in the Ukraine war and awaits asylum in a shelter in Playas de Tijuana. ^[3] The film offers a different view of Tijuana, away from representations focused on violence and marginality, addressing exile, intimacy, desire, identity, and belonging from an LGBTIQ+ perspective. ^[4] Director Gabriel Gutiérrez Morales and actors Humberto Busto and Petr Filimonov stated that the film addresses migration, exile, love, and diversity as its central themes. ^[5] The film is set in Playas de Tijuana and follows Maksim, a young man escaping forced conscription in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and Chava, a forty-year-old man navigating machismo in the north, who meet through a dating application. ^[6] The article notes that in 2023, Russia declared the LGBTQ+ movement extremist, a measure that criminalizes and harasses their activism. ^[7]