
This film program features 5 films traversing intimacy and transgressing borders - of love, nation states, and mortality.
⚠️ Nudity/Non-Sexual ⚠️
Threshold (Documentary Feature, 77-min)
Threshold is an autobiographical documentary made by a mother who follows the gender transition of her adolescent son: between 2016 and 2019 she interviews him addressing the conflicts, certainties and uncertainties that pervade him in a deep search for his identity. At the same time, the mother, revealed through a first-person narration and by her voice behind the camera that talks to her son, also goes through a process of transformation required by the situation that life presents her with by breaking old paradigms, facing fears and dismantling prejudices.
- DirectorCoraci Ruiz
- ScreenwriterCoraci Ruiz, Luiza Fagá
- Executive ProducerJulio Matos
- FilmmakerCoraci Ruiz
- CastNoah Silveira Ruiz, Lena Bartman Marko, Coraci Ruiz
- CinematographerCoraci Ruiz
- EditorLuiza Fagá
- Sound DesignGuile Martins
- MusicNatália Mallo
This film program features 5 films traversing intimacy and transgressing borders - of love, nation states, and mortality.
⚠️ Nudity/Non-Sexual ⚠️
Threshold (Documentary Feature, 77-min)
Threshold is an autobiographical documentary made by a mother who follows the gender transition of her adolescent son: between 2016 and 2019 she interviews him addressing the conflicts, certainties and uncertainties that pervade him in a deep search for his identity. At the same time, the mother, revealed through a first-person narration and by her voice behind the camera that talks to her son, also goes through a process of transformation required by the situation that life presents her with by breaking old paradigms, facing fears and dismantling prejudices.
- DirectorCoraci Ruiz
- ScreenwriterCoraci Ruiz, Luiza Fagá
- Executive ProducerJulio Matos
- FilmmakerCoraci Ruiz
- CastNoah Silveira Ruiz, Lena Bartman Marko, Coraci Ruiz
- CinematographerCoraci Ruiz
- EditorLuiza Fagá
- Sound DesignGuile Martins
- MusicNatália Mallo