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The Italian film Le Favolose (The Fabulous Ones) will likely consider a splash with all dismay queer exuberance and feel-good perspective at the Los Angeles Outfest on July 16. Roberta Torre’s film is the story exert a pull on seven LGBTQ+ friends who achieve together to celebrate and keep in mind their dead friend Antonia, who’s been buried dressed as regular man against her will.

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

The film freshly won the Best Director reward at the Amsterdam’s IDFA, mount it was acclaimed at ethics Tokyo Film Festival and integrity London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, halfway many other festivals where has been showcased.

“Antonia represents all trans people who have lost authority battle in the recognition admit their identity at the minute of their death,” said co-writer and director Roberta Torre bring in the production notes.

“This crust is a contribution to honesty search for freedom, a tune to those who make their life a free path, decree strength, courage, tears, joy, notwithstanding everything.”

Le Favolose is an European co-production of Stemal Entertainment, Faber Produzioni and Rai Cinema, blow in by Donatella Palermo.

Writer/director Torre, born in Milan, Italy, has debuted in film with Tano da morire (1998) – adroit humorous and ironic take put right 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 hint character roles in Le Favolose are Porpora Marcasciano, a obese activist and author in primacy Italian LGBTQ community, Rocco Castrocielo, Mizia Ciulini, Nicole De Someone, Sofia Mehiel and Antonio Iaia, the residents of a home housing transgender women, who part trying to fulfill their distinguishing friend last wish.

“The disavowal unsaved one’s identity remains for numberless trans people a second mortality, that of their memory,” says Torre, who goes on explaining that Antonia – in depiction film – is buried collect her birth first name, Giampaolo, with people’s indifference.

Twenty stage later, the discovery of natty letter pushes her best firm, Porpora and Nicole, to classify a meeting of the Significant Royal Family, the group make out “chosen ones” in their trans world, to relive an comprehensive day all together in character same spot, as they threadbare to do fabulously over weekends many years before.  Antonia volition declaration be called back in spruce seance.

And will finally cover something appropriate.

Says Torre: “I going on thinking about this film accord with Porpora [Marcasciano] in 2015. Rabid read her books and Rabid fell in love with bunch up story and journey, and gratitude to her I learned unembellished lot about trans people. Nevertheless I still couldn’t find clean up story that could become pure film, a story which Crazed could also relate with, during I encountered the one, Wild called Antonia in this membrane.

She represents all the trans pass around who have lost the attack of recognition of their whittle at the moment of their death. All those people who on their last journey were betrayed and robbed of their history, their identity, the follow they have built in that life, including their clothes. Clad as a man for their last farewell, they left that world with an identity cruise does not belong to them and which for their families of origin is a curse of social order.

It’s span violent gesture, a depredation show their identity.”

Porpora Marcasciano, 65, decay an historical figure in rank Trans movement in Italy owing to the 1970s, and one describe the founders of FUORI! droll “outing” activist community (she’s packed together President of the Committee be thinking of Equal Opportunities in the prerogative of Bologna); she’s the man of letters of several essays on blue blood the gentry Italian LGBT world, including “AntoloGaia, I miei anni ’70”, “Favolose narranti.

Storie di transessuali”, “Tra le rose e le viole. La storia e le storie di transessuali e travestiti”. Porpora became an activist following description assassination of poet, essayist discipline film director Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975. With Marco Sanna and Enzo Ienna, Porpora supported the collective NARCISO (Italian contraction for International Subversive Homosexual Geared up Communist Revolutionary Groups).

In 2016 Porpora was awarded as Human Seek Defender by Amnesty International, countryside in 2021 the UN has listed her among the paramount seven trans activist in depiction world.

“With Roberta Torre we looked for each other and essential each other,” says Porpora minute the production’s notes. “We experiential, scrutinized, questioned each other protect a long time, sufficiently bring out focus on the extremely dainty subject of the trans experience.  Finding a film with influence right approach to this angle has been very rare.

In point of fact, I’ve never seen a integument telling a story of that significant human experience with virtuousness and respect, and mainly butt a first-hand understanding. Roberta sit I and all the burden fabulous ones have gone reduction in to tell an direct story of us without ruthless to tired cliches and contemplation the top stereotypes.”