
AUSTIN SPOTLIGHT 2025
OFFICIAL SELECTION
SEPT 20TH AT SOUTHWEST LAKE CREEK 7

Passion Fruit
Miguel Arturo Sarduy
Passion Fruit dives into the dualities of human experience through the lens of Javier Guzmán, an immigrant grappling with an identity crisis and yearning for purpose. Living in New York City, Javier feels trapped in a dead-end corporate job, leading a life that falls short of his expectations.
Everything changes when he meets Lady Montana, a volatile fugitive revolutionary with a dangerous past. Her rebellious spirit and magnetic presence challenge Javier’s worldview, pulling him into a whirlwind of unconventional and risky situations. Just as Javier begins to unravel his mundane existence, his childhood friend Lucia arrives, seeking refuge after a painful divorce driven partly by her lingering feelings for him.
As Javier becomes entangled in a love triangle marked by passion, betrayal, and conflicting loyalties, Lady Montana’s chaotic past resurfaces, threatening them all. Forced to confront the blurred lines between safety and desire, identity and survival, Javier faces impossible choices in a dramatic confrontation that will alter their lives forever.
Passion Fruit explores the collision of love, survival, and the search for belonging in a society that promises everything but guarantees nothing.





