Vera

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.