Vera

Based on the life of Brazilian poet Anderson Bigode Herzer, who committed suicide at the age of 20, this intense drama tells the story of Bauer (the film’s title is his deadname), a transman who navigates a difficult life in an orphanage before finding love with a young librarian. A sympathetic professor sees his talent as a poet, but Bauer is mostly alone and misunderstood, proclaiming: “I’m not what everyone thinks I am. You hear me? I’m different. I’m something else.” One of the earliest portrayals in cinema of a transmasculine character.