Luis Mario Jimenez and Oskar Salazar Ruis in ‘Salt Water’ (photo: Breaking Glass Pictures)

“Salt Water” is a slow burner that deals with a very heavy subject. The film follows Jacobo (Luis Mario Jimenez), a 33-year-old living in a shabby house near the beach in Columbia. Jacobo is gay. He shares the house with a roommate, a “tenant with benefits,” he says. Though they sleep in separate rooms, Jacobo and his “tenant” indulge in sex from time to time.

Jacobo earns a modest living as a Yoga instructor, conducting his classes in the yard in front of his house. On the surface, Jacobo seems like an easygoing guy, satisfied with his life. But beneath the surface, tension boils. In the midst of his idyllic existence Jacobo reconnects with the much older Luis (Oskar Salazar Ruis), a Catholic prie

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