Vera

  • Introduction

    Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LGBTQ+ cinema.

featuring

Ana Beatriz Nogueira, Raul Cortez, Aida Leiner, Carlos Kroeber,

Based on the life of Brazilian poet Anderson Bigode Herzer, who took his own life at the age of twenty, this long-unavailable and recently restored drama tells the story of Bauer (Ana Beatriz Nogueira), a trans man who navigates a difficult life in an orphanage before finding love with a young librarian, Clara (Aida Leiner). A sympathetic professor sees his talent as a poet, but Bauer is mostly alone and misunderstood, proclaiming, “I’m not what everyone thinks I am. You hear me? I’m different. I’m something else. Something else.” One of the earliest portrayals in cinema of a transmasculine character.

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Sérgio Toledo
Cinematographer
  • Rodolfo Sánchez
Language
  • Portuguese
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 88 mins
Source
  • Nexus Cinema

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