Resistència trans
(Trans Resistance)

Film program, ES 2019, 72 min., span. OV + engl. UT

By: Claudia Reig

With: Glòria Missel Soler, Carmen Fernandez, Alec Casanova, May Chorda, Eva Salvador, Dylan Garcia

Carmen and Gloria are two trans women with very different biographies and transition experiences. Carmen has been expressing herself as a woman since her teenage years and finds herself in a constant struggle for her individual freedom. Gloria only begins transitioning at the age of 45, in a precarious economic situation, and she doesn’t dare to openly confront her family and society. Documentary director Claudia Reig follows both of them, to the registry office, to the theatre stage as well as to the authorities, where we see the numerous bureaucratic pitfalls that heteronormative society continues to put in the way of trans people. Much remains to be done and fought for, and this entertaining yet militant documentary takes to the barricades.

Supporting film: Primavera de Fernanda (Fernanda’s Spring)

BR 2018, 20 min., port. OV + engl. UT
(H T NX F)

By: Débora Zanatta & Estevan de la Fuente

With: Laysa Machado, Flora Chagas, Marina Vieira Chagas Lemos, Gerson Delliano, Mauro Zanatta, Regina Vogue, Rebecca Lamb, Marcel Szymanski, Anne Celli

A possibility arises in Fernanda’s life for her to reconstruct her own image through a new job. But the job interview will put her through yet another test.