Chock-full of unsimulated sex and frontal nudity, the latest provocation from Chilean auteur Sebastián Silva (Nasty Baby) finds the director playing a loose version of himself as an artistically blocked, ketamine-addicted filmmaker in Mexico City. When he nearly drowns at a gay nude beach, he’s rescued by social media star Jordan Firstman (also playing a fictional version of himself) who by sheer coincidence had just watched Silva’s film Crystal Fairy the night before. Firstman proposes a new HBO project that could shake the director out of his existential crisis, but just as things start shaping up, Silva goes missing, forcing Firstman to gather the clues to his disappearance between Instagram live feeds, art openings, and the occasional orgy.

Also starring the director’s brother and collaborator Juan Andrés Silva and a hilariously neurotic Catalina Saavedra (Problemista) as Silva’s long-suffering maid, Rotting in the Sun is an audacious and acerbic satire where nothing is off limits, including the director and star, as Silva and Firstman boldly place themselves in the direct line of fire.