**Abstract**

This article examines the configuration of queer identity in the Mexican film *Sueño en otro idioma* (Dream in another language, 2017), directed by Ernesto Contreras, arguing that contemporary Mexican melodrama presents new dynamics related to gender, class, and ethnic identities and is more interested in exploring the personal crisis that modernity has arisen in the country, instead of a fixed idea of mexicaness. When melodrama appeared in Mexican cinema, it reproduced the stereotypes of the heteronormative and patriarchal hegemony that dominated the configuration of the Mexican post-revolutionary nation. Unlike previous films, *Sueño en otro idioma* shows that these dynamics are evolving within Mexican culture, breaking with old representations about indigenous people, homosexuality, and violent masculinity and thus proposing a new, reconfigured notion of diverse Mexican identities. This paper analyzes the foundational characteristics of melodrama still present in the Mexican culture and those related to queer identities that the film has subverted through their representation.

**Keywords:** identity, Mexican cinema, melodrama, queer identity, gender
