Orgulho e Preconceito

Soon after New York state passed a 2015 law that health insurance should cover transgender-related care and services, director Tania Cypriano and producer Michelle Hayashi began bringing their cameras behind the scenes at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, where this remarkable documentary captures the emotional and physical journey of surgical transitioning. Lending equal narrative weight to the experiences of the center’s groundbreaking surgeon Dr. Jess Ting and those of his diverse group of patients, BORN TO BE perfectly balances compassionate personal storytelling and fly-on-the-wall vérité. It’s a film of astonishing access—most importantly into the lives, joys, and fears of the people at its center.

By accident, Serena reveals how she feels about her best friend, Bia. All of Serena’s whirling inner feelings send her into an emotional crisis that makes all of her bedroom furniture disappear.

A misguided, heartbroken young romantic, Anthony, uses sex as a coping mechanism, but emotional immaturity makes it difficult to find love as he risks losing self-respect and the people that matter most.

Is the eye the window of the soul? - Mydriasis is a movie that reflects about the early discoveries of queerness and its impact on the self perception of a person.