Threshold
(Limiar)
Brazil · 2020 · 77'
Directed by Coraci Ruiz
Produced by Julio Matos for Laboratorio Cisco
Synopsis
"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.
AWARDS
Best Documentary at Festival de Cine de Lima
Best Documentary at Turin Lovers LGBTQI FF
Best Documentary (Audience Award) at Queer Lisboa
Best Film at Cine a la Vista! Youth International Film Festival
Festival Mix Brazil: Best Direction
For Rainbow Brazil: Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Photography, Best Sound Design
FESTIVALS
Hot Docs 2021 - International Spectrum Competition
Opening Film at Ethnocineca Vienna and at Everybory's Perfect Geneva
Closing Film at Durban IFF
Festival de Malaga
Moscow IDFF DOKer
Women IFF Dortmund/Cologne
DocMontevideo
Amor Festival Chile
Festival Mix Milano
Seattle Latino FF
Cinemagic IFF
Threshold is necessary and welcome.
— C7nema
