Cláudia Wonder

In this bio-documentary, you will get to know Claudia Wonder, a Brazilian transsexual at the forefront of LGBT rights activism and alternative music scene for more than thirty years.

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he discovers the victim of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.

Hunting Season deals with the wave of homosexual murders that plagued São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s. With street statements and cultural and artistic figures such, such as Zé Celso, Jorge Mautner, Roberto Piva and others.

A transvestite is not someone who wants or needs to identify completely as a woman, which is something he can only ever really enact. A transvestite is a definition in itself, a person at a crossroads with incredible vital strength, of which by their very ambivalence they are the synthesis. An artist and at the same time the tool for their art. This documentary follows those artists who talk about theirs lives and problems in São Paulo, Brazil.

Miriam is being buried under the gaze of her husband Tato, friends and mother. This accuses the son-in-law of not having been a good husband; if it had been, Miriam wouldn't have died in a motel with another. But, according to friends Tônia and Tom, the deceased was experiencing a strong nymphomania crisis, hence taking advantage of her husband's absences, who, as a doctor, worked at night at the hospital. Tact finds it hard to conform to what happened. At the same time, Tônia reveals herself sick of her marriage to the voyeur Raul, while the transvestite Jessica, also separated from her husband Roberto, misses the time when she was Zezinho, when she had relations with the peasant Celso. One by one, everyone recalls passages from their lives and the reasons why Miriam would have died.

In a country house, the psychiatrist Daniel, always assisted by his wife and an attendant, starts to treat two new patients. One is Mirian, a middle-class young woman, who arrives there taken by her ex-boyfriend because she is emotionally and erotic out of control after the breakup. The other is Jessica, a transvestite, in existential conflict and distressed by the intense erotic life she is leading.

A woman has to choose between being a prostitute or posing nude for a painter, in order to finance an expensive surgery for her son, his only chance to survive.