THRESHOLD
Original Title: Limiar
Director: Coraci Ruiz
Documentary / 77min / 2020
Portuguese with English Subtitles
“Threshold” is an autobiographical documentary made by a mother who follows the gender transition of her adolescent son: between 2016 and 2019 she interviews him addressing the conflicts, certainties and uncertainties that pervade him in a deep search for his identity. At the same time, the mother, revealed through a first-person narration and by her voice behind the camera that talks to her son, also goes through a process of transformation required by the situation that life presents her with by breaking old paradigms, facing fears and dismantling prejudices.
Q&A with Coraci Ruiz, Director
About the director:
Coraci Ruiz has a degree in Dance (2002), a Master in Audiovisual Culture and Media (2009) and a PhD in Multimedia (2020), all from Unicamp (SP/Brazil). Also part of her background is the 2005 EICTV documentary filmmaking workshop. Among her main productions are the feature films “Threshold” (2020) and “Letters to Angola” (2012), which has participated in more than 30 festivals in 16 countries and was awarded prizes in Brazil, Angola, Portugal and Belgium; and the short films “Nostalgia, video letters to Cuba” (2005), “Another City” (2009), “Letters from Exile” (2015) and “Strong Feather” (2019). She is currently working on a feature film “Blooming on the asphalt” (selected for the LAB DOC of DOCSP 2020, with tutoring by Marta Andreu, and for the WIP of Conecta Chile, is expected to premiere in 2021).
