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The mother may be interfering, but she is very fond of her son’s boyfriend. Armando’s first encounter with street thug Elder (Luis Silva) is violent, but this doesn’t discourage the lonely man’s fascination with the tough handsome teenager. In XXY, a 15-year-old intersex person struggles with how society forces individuals into specific gender identities and boxes to fit the standard.
Chilean actor Alfredo Castro plays Armando, a middle-aged man who picks up young guys needing money on the streets of Caracas, paying them to strip naked. Not too long after her grandmother's death, she accidentally finds out that her beloved grandmother was hosting an alien. This year’s BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival programme presents features from Argentina (The Blond One; Men of Hard Skin; Roman), Paraguay (The Heiresses), Brazil (Socrates; Greta) and Guatemala (Jose).
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Her mother is keen for her to have sex reassignment surgery.
This romance, fantasy, and drama film are loosely based on real events that happened in the director’s life. With the aid of two of her friends, they are planning to get this mysterious creature to the next step of its journey.
4 The Firefly
Dubbed Colombia’s first-ever movie about lesbians, The Firefly is not one to be missed.
The science fiction adventure movie tells the story of Tania, a transgender woman going through a recent loss. Things do not go as planned, and he dies the next morning. A dash of magical realism in the scenes that reveal the meaning of the film’s title adds wonder to an endlessly intriguing queer crime drama.
Undertow (2009)
Director: Javier Fuentes-León
In Cabo Blanco, a small village in Peru, married fisherman Miguel (Cristian Mercado) is married and about to have his first child with Mariela (Tatiana Astengo).
She works as a singer and waitress and has a boyfriend, so he decides to surprise her with tickets to a resort. The Fish Child has some very tense scenes but is far more ambitious than most thrillers, tackling issues of class, injustice, abuse and misogyny. While his later works are hungrier for carnal depictions of the male body, Plan B is far subtler, beautifully depicting the shock of realising you are falling in love.
She has moved with her family from Argentina to a seaside town in Uruguay, although the discrimination intersex people experience catches up with Alex when she starts a relationship with the surgeon’s son.
XXY won several awards at Cannes, and critics drew comparisons with the work of Claire Denis. However, Armando’s haunted past looms large, and Elder commits the ultimate act of affection on Armando’s behalf.
And be on the lookout as new LGBTQ titles are headed to U.S.
theaters this fall including A Fantastic Woman by Sebastián Lelio, Chavela by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi, Nobody's Watching by Julia Solomonoff, Santa & Andrés by Carlos Lechuga, and No Dress Code Required by Cristina Herrera Bórquez. Fans of beautiful, pained men suffering in silence lap up the cinema of Julián Hernández, while the gentle teen drama The Way He Looks (2014), about a gay blind kid, was a huge hit with critics.
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Director: Hector Babenco
The only English-language film on this list is also the best known, thanks to William Hurt’s Oscar-winning performance as Luis, a flamboyant gay pederast serving time in a Brazilian jail cell with political prisoner Valentin (Raul Julia).
Castro gives a magnificent performance as Armando, a man whose face suggests a lifetime of rejection.