THE HISTORY

Once a year, two plastic surgeons from Belgium and the Netherlands fly to Havana to operate on five transgender people as part of a new state program led by Mariela Castro. Over the course of a year, the filmmakers followed the three protagonists of the documentary, Odette, Juani and Malú, showing how they face the reality of being transgender in Cuba. Meanwhile, they wait for the surgeons who will give them what they want most in life.

Netherlands, 2016

Director:

Daniel Abma

Script:

Alex Bakker

Production:

Stefan Kloos

Boudewijn Koole

Iris Lammertsma

Music:

Alex Simu

Edition:

Jana Dugnus

Duration: 86'

Country of production:

Netherlands

Producers:

Kloos & Co. Medien GmbH

Witfilm

Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

BNN-VARA

BNN

Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB)

ART

Distributors:

Cinema Delicatessen

Rise and Shine Cinema

BNN TV

 DIRECTOR

Daniel Abma was born in 1978 in the Netherlands. Previously he studied Primary Education and worked as a youth worker in Berlin and Brandenburg. He studied film direction at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, with a focus on documentaries. Your movie NACH WRIEZEN (Beyond Wriezen) was shown at the IDFA and numerous other festivals and won, among others, the prestigious GRIMME AWARD in Germany. HOLLAND OF THE SUN competed at DOKLeipzig, DOK.Fest Munich and in Krakow. TRANSIT HAVANA It is his film debut.

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

• Movies That Matter
• Roze Filmdagen,
• Dok.Fest Munich,
• Karlovy Vary IFF
• East End Film Festival
• Bergen IFF
• MIX CPH
• Antenna
• Filmkunsttage Sachsenanhalt
• Cinedoc Tbilisi
• Asterisk
• queersicht
• Cottbus IFF,
• Verzio
• Slovak Queer Festival
• Latin Screen St. Gallen
• The Place Without Limits
• Cork FF
• Montreal LGBT Image+Nation
• This Human World
• In-Doc Indonesia
• Havanna
• Beyond Berlin Film Festival San Francisco