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VALENTINA

By Cassio PEREIRA DOS SANTOS

LOKRO PRODUCTIONS, INC. - as PROD

LGBT - Completed 2020

When trans teen Valentina moves from the city to a small, conservative town, the community quickly sets up roadblocks to her happiness, forcing the shy teen to stand her ground in this inspiring and hopeful story of gender expression and solidarity, the debut feature from director Cássio Pereira.

Festivals
& Awards

São Paulo International Film Festival 2020
Winner Audience Award, Winner International Jury Award - Honorable Mention Best Actress Thiessa Woinbackk (actor) Winner Special Jury Award
Cine Latino Minneapolis Saint Paul 2020
Winner Audience Choice Award
Festival Mix Brasil 2020
Winner Audience Award, Jury Award Best Script, Best Acting, Best Film
Image + Nation Festival Cinema LGBT Montreal Film Festival 2020
Winner Jury Award
Montreal LGBT 2020
Audience Award
Outfest 2020
Outstanding Performance in an International Narrative Thiessa Woinbackk
Warsaw FF 2020
Outshine Film Festival 2020
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    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • LGBT, First film, Drama
    • Countries
    • BRAZIL
    • Languages
    • BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE
    • Duration
    • 95 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Cassio PEREIRA DOS SANTOS
    • Writer(s)
    • Cassio PEREIRA DOS SANTOS
    • Producer(s)
    • Natália BRANDINO, Erika PEREIRA DOS SANTOS (Campo Cerrado), Walder JUNIOR, Hebe TABACHNIK (Lokro Productions, Inc)
    • Synopsis
    • Living her best life in southeastern Brazil’s large, metropolitan center of Uberlândia, trans teen Valentina (newcomer Thiessa Woinbackk in a star-making debut) thrives in the anonymity of a bustling city where she is free to be who she is, surrounded by supportive friends and the fierce, unwavering love of her single mother Marcia (Guta Stresser). When Marcia finds much needed work in the small town of Estrela do Sul, the pair quickly pull up stakes and relocate to the remote, cloistered community, where attitudes are provincial and anonymity is nearly impossible to come by. With the local high school reticent to recognize Valentina under her social name without her estranged father Renato’s (Rômulo Braga) signature, the sensitive teen still manages to find her place, settling into a warm friendship with schoolmates Julio (Ronaldo Bonafro) and Amanda (Letícia Franco). But when the community keeps coming up with new, often violent ways to block Valentina’s happiness, she realizes that she must make a choice on how her life is to be lived, summoning up reserves of quiet strength in this warm, achingly real feature debut from writer/director Cássio Pereira dos Santos, who joins a powerful generation of Brazilian filmmakers notable for pushing the envelope on representations of sexuality and identity in cinema.
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