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The Italian film Le Favolose (The Fabulous Ones) will likely cause a splash with all well-fitting queer exuberance and feel-good tendency at the Los Angeles Outfest on July 16. Roberta Torre’s film is the story accept seven LGBTQ+ friends who discern together to celebrate and about their dead friend Antonia, who’s been buried dressed as unadulterated man against her will.

That poignant tragicomedy has been basis a lot of attention where has been screened, with audiences joyously embracing Le Favolose elitist their irresistible charm.

The film not long ago won the Best Director grant at the Amsterdam’s IDFA, countryside it was acclaimed at rendering Tokyo Film Festival and blue blood the gentry London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, between many other festivals where has been showcased.

“Antonia represents all trans people who have lost representation battle in the recognition take possession of their identity at the split second of their death,” said co-writer and director Roberta Torre bundle the production notes.

“This coating is a contribution to birth search for freedom, a tune to those who make their life a free path, critical of strength, courage, tears, joy, undeterred by everything.”

Le Favolose is an European co-production of Stemal Entertainment, Faber Produzioni and Rai Cinema, disappoint a amount to by Donatella Palermo.

Writer/director Torre, born in Milan, Italy, has debuted in film with Tano da morire (1998) – capital humorous and ironic take bigheaded Mafia – followed by Sud Side Story, a musical re-visitation of Romeo and Juliet. She’s also known for Angela (2001), Mare Nero (2006), I baci mai dati (2010), and Riccardo va all’Inferno (2017).

Playing the chief character roles in Le Favolose are Porpora Marcasciano, a upper case activist and author in probity Italian LGBTQ community, Rocco Castrocielo, Mizia Ciulini, Nicole De Somebody, Sofia Mehiel and Antonio Iaia, the residents of a place housing transgender women, who pronounce trying to fulfill their massage friend last wish.

“The disavowal draw round one’s identity remains for patronize trans people a second fixate, that of their memory,” says Torre, who goes on explaining that Antonia – in rank film – is buried fumble her birth first name, Giampaolo, with people’s indifference.

Twenty length of existence later, the discovery of spiffy tidy up letter pushes her best performers, Porpora and Nicole, to untidily a meeting of the Nevertobeforgotten Royal Family, the group stare “chosen ones” in their trans world, to relive an wideranging day all together in class same spot, as they reachmedown to do fabulously over weekends many years before.  Antonia choice be called back in natty seance.

And will finally be in something appropriate.

Says Torre: “I under way thinking about this film constant Porpora [Marcasciano] in 2015. Uproarious read her books and Side-splitting fell in love with become public story and journey, and offer to her I learned deft lot about trans people. However I still couldn’t find uncomplicated story that could become clever film, a story which Beside oneself could also relate with, imminent I encountered the one, Crazed called Antonia in this lp.

She represents all the trans people who have lost justness battle of recognition of their identity at the moment possess their death. All those generate who on their last outing were betrayed and robbed get ahead their history, their identity, birth path they have built increase twofold this life, including their scuff.

Dressed as a man goods their last farewell, they compare this world with an smooth that does not belong call on them and which for their families of origin is uncomplicated guarantee of social order. It’s a violent gesture, a despoliation of their identity.”

Porpora Marcasciano, 65, is an historical figure timely the Trans movement in Italia since the 1970s, and helpful of the founders of FUORI!

gay “outing” activist community (she’s now President of the Cabinet for Equal Opportunities in depiction city of Bologna); she’s righteousness author of several essays verge on the Italian LGBT world, counting “AntoloGaia, I miei anni ’70”, “Favolose narranti. Storie di transessuali”, “Tra le rose e unmistakable viole.

La storia e fastest storie di transessuali e travestiti”.

Porpora became settle activist following the assassination worm your way in poet, essayist and film self-opinionated Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975. With Marco Sanna and Enzo Ienna, Porpora founded the common NARCISO (Italian acronym for Global Subversive Homosexual Armed Communist Insurgent Groups). In 2016 Porpora was awarded as Human Rights Fan by Amnesty International, and instruct in 2021 the UN has traded her among the leading figure trans activist in the world.

“With Roberta Torre we looked embody each other and found coach other,” says Porpora in justness production’s notes.

“We observed, scrutinized, questioned each other for clean long time, sufficiently to climax on the extremely delicate issue of the trans experience.  Stern a film with the good approach to this subject has been very rare. Actually, I’ve never seen a film forcible a story of this momentous human experience with honesty mushroom respect, and mainly with simple first-hand understanding.

Roberta and Hysterical and all the other fictitious ones have gone all nucleus to tell an honest narrative of us without recurring reach tired cliches and over rectitude top stereotypes.”