EL POLVO

DUST

CABEZA NEGRA CINE - as PROD / FIN

Family - Completed 2023

The film excavates layers of memory of a recently dead transgender woman. A family, through her spaces and objects, creates a collective and intimate story / portrait that makes them question their own notion of identity, affective bonds and transcendence.

Festivals
& Awards

Mar Del Plata FF 2023
Estados Alterados
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Family, LGBT, Documentary
    • Countries
    • ARGENTINA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH-ARGENTINE, BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE, ITALIAN
    • Budget
    • N/A
    • Duration
    • 73 mn
    • Synopsis
    • A family dismantles the apartment of Aunt Juli, who recently passed away. She was born as a man and died as a transgender woman. The space and the family are transformed by grief.

      Object after object, room after room, through the anecdotes and stories that different family members and friends will be recalling, fragments of her intangible figure will emerge: gender transitioning, her exile to Brazil during the military dictatorship, the desire for love, the forwardness of queer humor, trans activism and the last years of her life carrying the weight of HIV. A collective, intimate story and portrait that questions the very notion of identity, family and transcendence.