Threshold (Limiar) | Border Crossings, Intimate Encounters | Outgaze Film Festival 2023

Outgaze Film Festival 2023

Border Crossings, Intimate Encounters

Expired May 1, 2023 4:58 AM

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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.

Year
2020
Runtime
77 minutes
Language
Portuguese
Country
Brazil
Rating
Nudity/Non-Sexual
Social Media

Director
Coraci Ruiz
Screenwriter
Coraci Ruiz, Luiza Fagá
Executive Producer
Julio Matos
Filmmaker
Coraci Ruiz
Cast
Noah Silveira Ruiz, Lena Bartman Marko, Coraci Ruiz
Cinematographer
Coraci Ruiz
Editor
Luiza Fagá
Sound Design
Guile Martins
Music
Natália Mallo

5 films in package

Does Your House Have Lions

(Documentary, 48-min) A queer household of activists and academics in New Delhi lives under the shadow of increasing authoritarianism.

Threshold (Limiar)

(Documentary Feature, 77-min) Threshold is an autobiographical documentary made by a mother who follows the gender transition of her adolescent son.

Closed captions available

(Documentary, 74-min) In 2001, Fernanda was a 15-year-old Brazilian foreign exchange student in Mesa, Arizona, considered the USA’s most conservative city. 15 years later, and two months before Donald Trump’s election, she’s back to understand her experience there and to find an America between fiction and cliché.

Closed captions available

(Short, 9-min) Set in 2020, 70-year-old Pepper rarely leaves her home in New Orleans due to the pandemic. Craving connection, she eventually discovers the meditative aspects of birding and learns that nature can bring people together even when there's distance.

Closed captions available

The Death Spa Experience

(Short, 7-min) The Death Spa Experience takes viewers through an imaginary cosmetic spa procedure that is equal parts mindfulness and satire.

This screening is eligible for an audience award! Unlock it to cast your vote.

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.

Year
2020
Runtime
77 minutes
Language
Portuguese
Country
Brazil
Rating
Nudity/Non-Sexual
Social Media

Director
Coraci Ruiz
Screenwriter
Coraci Ruiz, Luiza Fagá
Executive Producer
Julio Matos
Filmmaker
Coraci Ruiz
Cast
Noah Silveira Ruiz, Lena Bartman Marko, Coraci Ruiz
Cinematographer
Coraci Ruiz
Editor
Luiza Fagá
Sound Design
Guile Martins
Music
Natália Mallo