Ivan runs into a former schoolmate at the Almería greenhouse where they both work, and their mutual attraction leads to a night of confidences and sex on the beach. It is, as the director says ofIvan & HadoumIan de la Rosa (Granada, 1988) describes it as "a classic love story with characters that aren't," because Ivan is a trans man and Hadoum is the rebellious daughter of North African migrants. This is perhaps what allows them to accept each other naturally and without prejudice. But the film, a Catalan co-production premiering this Friday at the Berlinale in the Panorama section, stems from overcoming the conflict with trans identity, a theme the director, who trained as a chess player, already explored eleven years ago in his short film. Victor XX"Now the conflict has to do with other things, with choosing what kind of person you want to be and empowering yourself through love and desire," explains De la Rosa, who in 2022 was, with the short film Farrucas, the first trans filmmaker to win a Gaudí award

Muse of Generation Z. Internet celebrity with 362,000 Instagram followers. Trans activist. Musician and performerPodcaster at BombifiedSharp tongue and looks Impossible. Samantha Hudson will present the album Music for Dolls at the Razzmatazz venue in Barcelona on November 8th, with Hadas as the opening act. This new album showcases the two sides that have made him a leading figure in the industry. queer: the raw, frenzied energy of electronic music and the wisdom of political awareness. Above the stiletto heels rises a brilliant mind.

For 40 years, Iran has performed more gender transition surgeries than many other nations, largely as a result of pressure on gay and gender non-conforming citizens—people who don't conform to traditional stereotypes—to undergo unwanted operations or simply to avoid the possibility of punishment.

It all started on X, back when it was still called Twitter. Screenwriter Bri LeRose read a comment from director Todd Phillips (Joker, Hangover in Las Vegas) on the negative effects of culture woke in today's comedy. Outraged, she tweeted: "I'll only see this coward's movie if Vera Drew makes it again." No sooner said than done: Drew began to recover. Joker with the intention of parodying it, but at some point in the process she decided to make a film about the Joker herself, but to tell her own story of accepting her identity as a trans woman. Produced for less than 100,000 euros, without Warner's permission and mixing real actors and animation, the result is The people's Joker, an irreverent cocktail of humor queer, a superhero drama that Filmin premieres this Friday.

"After graduating from the University of Oklahoma, it seemed to me that if I got a doctorate in history, I could have an academic career and a comfortable, quiet, and boring life until my retirement," Susan Stryker (1961) commented last month at the CCCB Cultura y Cultura in Barcelona.

During her childhood and adolescence, Fer Rivas (Barcelona, ​​1994) identified as male and was attracted to men. When she was in high school, her father died suddenly of a heart attack. For almost ten years, she kept her grief bottled up and buried in a corner of her heart, unable to cope. Literature was the tool to unblock it: Rivas poured everything she felt and had experienced into a letter to her father, written with honesty and courage, preceding her gender transition. Now that text has been converted into an autobiographical novel. I was a boy (Ángulo Editorial / Sexto Piso), and now Rivas is working to transform it into a play as well.