SESSàO BRUTA
(aka RAW SESSION)
Dir. As Talavistas and ela . ltda, 2022
Brazil.
In Portuguese.

SATURDAY, JUNE 1 – 10 PM
FRIDAY, JUNE 7 – 7:30 PM
TUESDAY, JUNE 11 – 10 PM
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 – 7:30 PM

Synopsis: Shot with a Mini-DV camera without major preparations but with a great deal of sweat and beer, RAW SESSION presents itself as a succession of prologues of a film always yet to be made.

“A Brazilian collective of cross-dresser, transgender and non-binary friends filmed themselves in 2018 with a Mini DV camera, spontaneously and with little preparation. Four years later, the collective, As Talavistas & ela.ltda, edited the raw material to create a succession of prologues to a film that, as they say themselves, is continually in progress.

The result so far is a playful, personal, political and uncompromising self-portrait. The friends, all multiracial and thus doubly marginalized, talk frankly about themselves and the issues they struggle with, in a society that poses a constant danger to trans people. Brazil has the highest murder rate of transgender people in the world.”
– IDFA 2022