The life of the boy Fedya changed dramatically after the arrival of the volost commissar in the village. Fedka knew how to read and write, so he was appointed clerk of the village committee of the poor. The whole village is happy about Soviet power. But the fists try to harm, not even stopping at killing. And when the commissioner dies from an enemy bullet, Fedka becomes a real fighter for a better future.
This Transgender Day of Remembrance, let us take a look at six films about transgender children grappling with their identity in a heteronormative world that despises their kind and tries its best to invalidate their feelings.
Years before Mexican director, Alfonso Cuaron, was winning Academy Awards for movies like Gravity (2013) and Roma(2018), he directed a small, intimate film about two best friends who decide to embark on an improvised road trip to spend time with an older, attractive woman who miraculously agrees to go with them. Y tu Mamá También is a deep journey into the raw sexuality and friendship of the young protagonists, as well as a subtle social and political commentary on Mexico at the time.
'The Invisible Man' triumphs in tension even as it drops the ball on genuine surprise for the audience.
'Reservation Dogs' is stacked with an array of Native American performers and crew telling their own story.
Netflix’s Shadow and Bone has a complicated relationship with race. It has a diverse cast, but not without its problems. Based on Leigh Bardugo’s two book series, the show features characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which is very straight and white, and the Six of Crows duology, which is much more diverse. When bringing together a cast and writing about these characters, the team behind the show expanded upon some of the representation missing from the first trilogy, then seemed to take away representation from the duology. Shadow and Bone seems to play a bit of a push and pull game when it comes to portraying diversity onscreen.
A summary of the films featured in this annual event taking place in Westchester.
