TranScreen presents: Morir de Pie (Die Standing Up)

Saturday, 10 January

TranScreen presents: Morir de Pie (Die Standing Up)

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Jacaranda Correa Morales, Mexico, 2011, Spanish w/ Eng subs, 72min

This film is the inspiring story of Irina Layewska, a tireless fighter in the war for personal freedoms, who continues to work for progressive causes from her wheelchair despite a severe disability. It is also the love story of Irina and her partner Nelida, whom she married as a man. Irina was born into a male body; she grew up idolizing Che Guevara and spent much of her young life fighting in the Cuban solidarity movement. When her condition suddenly threatened her eyesight she became aware of an internal, emotional imbalance, and a need to explore her feminine side and identify as a woman.

Jacaranda Correa, the renowned Mexican journalist and anchorwoman, skillfully intercuts home movies and archival material with sensitive, intimate footage of Irina and Nelida’s present-day lives. They bravely open a window on their most personal moments, as they live to the fullest a life that neither of them could have ever imagined.

Bar opens 19.30
Film starts 20.30

! Please reserve tickets via info@filmhuiscavia.nl and pick them up by 20.00

 

Date & Time: 

Saturday, 10 January, 2015 - 20:30

Category: 

  • bar/cafe
  • film
  • music/concert

Topics: 

  • Gender
  • queer

Price: 

4,-
Filmhuis Cavia
Van Hallstraat 52-1
1051 HH Amsterdam
Netherlands

Directions: 

Go through the gate. Cavia is on the right side of the buidling, above the gym. Take the stairs.

Squat: 

Former squat, now legalised

Filmhuis Cavia is a counterculture cinema, (legally) founded by a squatters movement in 1983, which programs films you aren't likely to see anywhere else.

categories: 

  • film

opening times: 

We're open a couple of days in the week. Look us up to find our monthly program.
Doors always open half an hour before the film starts.