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Alèssi Dell'Umbria - 2015 copyright Laura Morsch-Kihn

Alèssi Dell’Umbria – 2015
copyright Laura Morsch-Kihn

Alèssi Dell’Umbria grandit à Marseille où il vit encore actuellement. Au début des années 1980, Alessi Dell’Umbria participe à la première vague de révoltes des banlieues françaises1. Il assiste ensuite, impuissant, à sa défaite et à la mise en place de ce qu’il considère comme un véritable apartheid social2.

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Stephania Mirza Curbello copyright Laura Morsch-Kihn

Stephania Mirza Curbello
copyright Laura Morsch-Kihn

Stephania is a transvestite born in Nicaragua. As a boy, he was adopted by a couple of Uruguayan leftist activists in the midst of the Sandinista revolution. At the moment, Stephania earns her living watching parked cars in Montevideo. The film follows Stephania in her journey to rediscover her home country, where she was once a son, a brother and a boy who taught literacy and where she now wants to be accepted as the woman she is.

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Letícia Simões - 2015 copyright Laura Morsch-Kihn

Letícia Simões – 2015
copyright Laura Morsch-Kihn

Letícia Simões was born in Salvador, Brazil, 1988. Graduated in Social Communication at PUC-Rio and studied Cinema at the London Academy of TV and Media and Fine Arts at the University of London.
In 2011, she published her first poetry book, “People from whom I stole sentences” by Brazilian publisher 7 Letras. In the same year, she directed her first feature film, the documentary WIDE SARGASSO SEA, selected for the Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival, Sao Paolo Film Festival and Tiradentes Film Festival, among others.

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