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.

남미 최대의 감옥 카란디루. 과밀수용으로 폭력과 전염병이 급속도로 번져가던 어느 날 에이즈 치료와 예방교육을 위해 한 의사(드라우지오 바렐라)가 도착한다. 바렐라는 카란디루에 발을 들여놓는 순간부터 거친 수감자들의 칼부림을 목격하고 열악한 환경에 몸서리치지만, 수 많은 환자들을 외면하지 못해 그곳에 남기로 한다. 감옥 한 쪽에 마련된 간이 진료실은 ‘이곳에 죄 지은 사람은 없다’는 수감자들의 각양각색 사연들이 오가는 특별한 공간이 된다. 자기는 원래 좀도둑에 불과했다고 주장하는 우연한 살인범 에보니, 아내‘들’의 사랑다툼이 방화로 이어져 감옥신세까지 지게 되었다는 미워할 수 없는 바람둥이 하이니스, 이름과는 정반대로 트랜스젠더 레이디 디와 사랑에 빠지고 옥중결혼식까지 올리는 행운의 사나이 투 배드(Too bad)... 바렐라는 다양한 죄수들을 만나 각각의 너무나 인간적인 범죄의 뒷이야기에 귀를 기울인다. 얼핏 보면 온갖 범죄자들이 모인 무법천지, 그러나 나름의 엄격한 위계질서를 가지고 움직이던 카란디루의 최대행사인 축구시합이 열리던 날! 축구장 밖에서 일어난 사소한 싸움이 카란디루 전체의 폭동으로 번지게 되고... 경찰기동대의 잔혹한 진압으로 카란디루는 순식간에 끔찍한 피바다를 이룬다. 운 좋게도 비극의 그날 카란디루를 잠시 떠나있었던 바렐라는 살아남은 자들의 생생한 고백을 전해듣는다.

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.