Your birth name: identity anchor or invisible cage? This 12-min doc will wreck you softly.
A short documentary that begins with an experience of Uriel, a young trans man, and then draws an analogy with a part of human identity tied to the name we are given at birth.
Direction
Escárate's patient, non-exploitative gaze
Editing
Seamless weaving of personal and universal
Director
Tatiana Escárate
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 2020s Latin American trans docs using brevity as political strategy—too urgent for feature-length patience.
Escárate cast herself to mirror Uriel's journey, blurring subject/director lines in ways the film never acknowledges directly.
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