Strand Releasing has acquired North American rights to Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building, a Mexican coming-of-age drama that premiered in Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival, with a theatrical release planned for spring 2027 (Variety).

The film is the first Mexican feature selected for Cannes Critics' Week in nearly two decades — since Ernesto Contreras' Blue Eyelid screened in competition in 2007 (Variety). Critics' Week, or Semaine de la Critique, is a parallel section of the Cannes festival devoted to first and second films, programmed separately from the main competition.

Set in Mexico City in the early 1990s, the film follows an 11-year-old boy named Bruno who is grappling with growing feelings for his best friend when his family is shaken by the news that his father has HIV (Variety). The story then shifts three decades forward, as the adult Bruno revisits and reimagines memories he could not fully understand as a child (Variety).

What sets the film apart is its hybrid form. Director Bruno Santamaría Razo — drawing on his own childhood memories of his father's illness during a time of rising HIV awareness in Mexico — interviews his own mother about the period depicted on screen, folding documentary footage into the fictional narrative (ioncinema; Cannes Critics' Week). The result is a docufiction work that sits at the intersection of personal memoir and coming-of-age drama.

Santamaría Razo wrote the screenplay and produced the film alongside Bruna Haddad and Carlos H. Quiñónez for Mexico's Ojo de Vaca Productora. Co-producers are Brazil's Desvia Films and Denmark's Snowglobe (Variety). The Cannes Critics' Week official page lists a runtime of 1 hour 45 minutes (Cannes Critics' Week).

Before reaching Cannes, the project had already built momentum on the festival circuit. It won four awards in the Films in Progress section at Cinélatino Toulouse, a sidebar dedicated to Latin American films still in post-production seeking completion support (Variety).

Strand Releasing, based in Culver City and headed by Jon Gerrans and Marcus Hu, negotiated the North American deal with Jean-Benoit Henry of Luxbox, the Paris-based sales agent handling international rights to the film (Variety). Strand's current slate includes Yashaddai Owen's Jimmy, Brydie O'Connor's Barbara Forever, and a 4K restoration re-release of Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin (Variety).

The film is also scheduled to screen at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF).

For North American audiences, the spring 2027 release means a wait of roughly eight months from this acquisition announcement before the film reaches cinemas. Strand, a distributor long associated with bringing international and independent titles to US screens, will handle the rollout.