Call Me Agnes
Daniel Donato
Fiction : 94' / Trans, Musical, Migrations, Family

Closing Night

 

The film brings together documentary, fiction, and musical elements to recount the story of Agnes Geneva, an immigrant trans woman from Indonesia, living in the Netherlands. Following her daily routine, such as playing badminton with her queer friends, or working at a restaurant she herself opened in her own house, alongside her best friend Rini, Agnes is eventually confronted with the arrival of her younger brother Indra, who had only experienced the masculine socialization with Agnes, before her transition.
From a transfeminist point of view, Agnes’ musical tale weaves layers and poeticizes them in daily life, through gender, belonging, love, self-esteem, and spirituality issues. And in doing so, it strengthens the complexities inherent to the existences of trans people inside the cis-gender order of this ruined world; while at the same time, highlighting the pain in searching new ways to build and inhabit, so as the inventiveness in other imaginable places where life is possible. H.P.

/ EXHIBITION

Lisboa
September 28 | 21h00 | Cinema São Jorge - Sala Manoel de Oliveira Buy Tickets
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/ Details

Year: 2024

Country: Netherlands

Language: indonesian, english, dutch and portuguese

Subtitles: english and portuguese

With: Agnes Geneva, Mak Rini, Gianluca Koeswanto, Fernando Belfiore

/ Direction

Daniel Donato

Brazil


Daniel Donato (Fortaleza, Brazil, 1987) is a filmmaker and cinematographer with a Master in Cinematography (Viewfinder Erasmus Mundus Joint Master) and a Master in Artistic Research in and through Film (Netherlands Film Academy).



Filmography

2024 - Call Me Agnes (Feature Film)

2019 - Hello Cinta Pertamaku, Câmbio e Desligo (Short Film)

2016 - What You Are? (Short Film)

2016 - Ø (nullset) (Short Film)

2009 - Morning Routine (Short Film)



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