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Retracing the life and work of Spain's Nazario Luque, groundbreaking queer artist and author of the first openly gay underground comic strips. Romantic and sharply provocative, El jardín de los faunos is an intimate portrait of a man who devoted his life to love and freedom, amplifying queer culture in a country still discovering its freedom after Franco's dictatorship.

Pol Merchan is an artist, filmmaker, and curator for the Xposed International Queer Film Festival. He received his bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and his master's degree from the Universität der Künste Berlin's Art in Context program. His audiovisual work examines visual semantics and cinematic processes while dissecting traditional filmmaking methods. Merchan's films have been exhibited internationally in art institutions and at numerous film festivals around the globe.