Director
Adrian Silvestre
Producer: Javier Pérez Santana
Spain
Synopsis
Raphi is a young, androgynous and naive. He writes poems about princes and dreams of falling in love. From his native France he moves to Barcelona, where the attempts to maintain relationships with other boys cause him anxiety. At the Gender Unit of Hospital ClÃnic, Raphi is diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
Raphi begins a gender transition as well as an arduous journey to find her true identity. The men she meet through apps, the other trans women from I-Vaginarium, doctors, co-workers, queer artists, and the theater company she embarks on will give her their own advice, but only time the life experiences will help Raphi envision the path she really needs to take
Contact: javierperezsantana@testamentopct.com
Director´s Biofilmography: Adrian Silvestre
Adrian Silvestre has aDegree in Audiovisual Communication from the UCM.
He explores with his films projects the limits between reality and fiction, staging real people together with professional actors and assuming artistic practice from the analysis of their lives experiences. His films are preceded by a process of close collaboration with communities, generally linked to issues of gender, migration and LGBTI groups. They are collaborative processes that encourage dialogue, freedom of expression and empowerment.
"Los objetos amorosos", his debut feature film , has toured more than thirty international film festivals, and received numerous awards such as the FIPRESCI, at the Seville European Film Festival.
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