Camila José Donoso

Casa Roshell is a space in Mexico founded by the trans activist Roshell Terranova. A small, intimate room with a stage sets the scene for performances, workshops, and lip-syncs. For its members, Casa Roshell is somewhere where they can assume an alternative gender role and explore their identity.

A father reflects on his strict upbringing in early 1960’s Puerto Rico, as Hi8 videos - filmed by his son - reveal his son's fascination with violence during his carefree, playful youth.

Yermén is a transsexual woman in her mid-thirties that works as a tarot reader, and lives in the emblematic low-income neighbourhood of La Victoria. Looking for a sex reassignment, she decides to try for a plastic surgery TV show, where she will meet an enigmatic immigrant who wants to get an operation to look like Naomi Campbell.

Josefina, a radical homemaker, committed a crime of passion that led her to self-exile at a coastal town. She tries to find peace in solitude, immersed in the house routine, while coexisting with a past of lovers and Molotov cocktails. Her body suffers the metamorphosis of aging, and she must undergo cataract surgery.

In a city battered by capitalism, overwork, and loneliness, a group of Caribbean women recently arrived in Chile survive working at the popular “cafés con piernas” –literally “coffee with legs”–

The players of the Chile women's national football teamnot only fight against other teams but they also face the prejudices and inequalities of a historically male field.