MOCHA

By Francisco QUIÑONES CUARTAS, Rayan HINDI

GRONCHO ESTUDIO - as PROD

LGBT - Completed 2019

The first Trans High School in the world named Mocha Celis exists in Chacarita, Buenos Aires. For a year, its students make this movie telling a story about identity, education, inclusion and their militance for access to the same rights than the rest of society.

Festivals
& Awards

Asterisco 2018
Jury Prize
Gênero e Sexualidade No Cinea Film Festival Río De Janeiro 2018
Best Feature Documentary
Ventana Sur 2019
Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana 2019
Selected at Los colores de la diversidad
Guadalajara FICG 2019
Selected at Premio Maguey
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • LGBT, Documentary
    • Countries
    • ARGENTINA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 62 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Francisco QUIÑONES CUARTAS, Rayan HINDI
    • Producer(s)
    • Rocio PICHIRILI (GRONCHO ESTUDIO)
    • Synopsis
    • In Buenos Aires' iconic Chacarita neighborhood, exists a unique institution in the world: the Mocha Celis Trans High School. There, the students directed an audiovisual piece, which for the first time, gave them a voice of their own, helping them construct the paradigms of their own representation, and hence breaking with a tradition of externalising the perception of their own community. The narration takes the form of an homenage to the Trans community, who for a lifetime took the streets and fought for the recognition of their identity within the rest of society. This is a story about inclusion and teaching, within and without the classroom.