YÉSICA

By Brenda URLACHER

FAR AWAY CINE - as PROD

Drama - Development 2020

Yésica travels to Spain for a sex-change operation. His brother arrives to tell her that his father is dying and has asked about him.

Festivals
& Awards

Festival de cine de Madrid 2019
Shorts and Shots
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Drama, LGBT
    • Countries
    • ARGENTINA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 85 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Brenda URLACHER
    • Writer(s)
    • Luciana CARLOPIO
    • Producer(s)
    • Federico RICALDONI (FAR AWAY CINE), Mario E. LEVIT (CRUZ DEL SUR CINE)
    • Synopsis
    • Yésica, the daughter of Andalucian Roma immigrants, leaves her family in Argentina and returns to her grandparents’ village in Spain. She is fleeing the 2001 crisis and a father who won’t accept her transformation. Away from home, she undergoes sex change surgery and lives the life she has always dreamt of, until her brother arrives to tell her their father is dying and keeps asking about him.
    • Beginning of shooting
    • Nov 02, 2020
    • End of shooting
    • Dec 04, 2020