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Ventana Docs: Portraits of Mafalda Creator Quino, Intolerance, Family Relations, Trans Figures and Rebellious Youth in Cuba (EXCLUSIVE)

Mafalda cartoonist Quino, and “Habana Libre,” a take on rebellious youth in Cuba, look like potential standouts at Ventana Docs, a selection of 12 doc features from across Latin America and Spain. A notable number have been developed at prestigious labs, whether Sundance Festival programs (“Bleeding Heart,” “Violent-House-Fiction”) or Spain’s Pompeu Fabra University. Two tell trans stories (“I Believe,” “Yren”) and with it, chart resistance and intolerance, main banes of other Ventana Sur titles.
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LGBTQ+ Features Transgender SPY A distinguished soldier and a cunning spy: The story of Europe’s first known openly transgender person
transgender spy enthralled Georgian England. As if being the first openly transgender person recorded in modern European history wasn’t interesting enough, the Chevalier (meaning ‘knight’) d’Éon also led a remarkable life as a decorated soldier, diplomat and spy. Charismatic, popular and fiercely intelligent, d’Éon fascinated the public. Born male in 1728, Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d’Éon de Beaumont came from Burgundy aristocracy.
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