My Emptiness and I

Raphi is young, androgynous, and naive. In Barcelona, she begins a gender transition as well as an arduous journey to find her true identity. We follow this brace trans woman during this essential, if confusing, period of metamorphosis: We see her in her everyday life, as she talks candidly with colleagues, queer friends, and the men she meets through apps. Despite all the advice she receives, it turns out that it is mostly time and experience that will help her embrace her place in this world. Created in response to an urge (or the urgency) to portray the life of trans people in the first person – not only making them participants in the project, but placing them at the core of the creative process, becoming active subjects, and not objects of representation – this delicate, emotionally intelligent feature shot by the director of Sediments (Special Jury Prize at the 2021 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival) reformulates the ever-timely issues of identity politics and inclusion.