THRESHOLD – LIMIAR
Coraci Ruiz | Brazil 2020 | 77 Min. | OmeU
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European Premiere
Coraci Ruiz accompanies the gender transition of her adolescent daughter with her camera and with it the conflicts, certainties, and uncertainties that she engages in during the search for her identity. In the 1960s, her mother had protested for women’s rights in Brazil. She desires to break through outdated paradigms and face her fears and prejudices because it is not only her daughter who is experiencing a transformation.
The autobiographic documentary THRESHOLD follows three generations of a family in their struggle for self-determination against the backdrop of the Brazilian government’s authoritarian rise.
Director and Cinematographer: Coraci Ruiz
Screenplay: Coraci Ruiz and Luiza Fagá
Executive Producer: Julio Matos
Editor: Luiza Fagá
Original Soundtrack: Natalia Mallo
Sound Designer and Mixer: Guile Martins
Colorist: Tobias Rezende
Impact Distribution Production: Rodrigo Diaz Diaz
Post-Production Coordination: Lucas Lazarini
Illustration: Noah Silveira Ruiz
Screenings and Awards
28º Festival Mix Brasil 2020: Best Direction
14º For Rainbow – Festival de Cinema e Cultura da Diversidade Sexual e de Gênero 2020:
Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Photography and Best Sound Design
Mostra Transversa – Presenças Trans no Cinema Brasileiro / Escola Porto Iracema das Artes 2020
Hot Docs 2021 International Spectrum: Competition
9ª SP Transvisão / SP Escola de Teatro2021
Festival Cajubi 2021
Santos Film Fest – Festival Internacional de Cinema de Santos2021
Biography
Coraci Ruiz has a degree in Dance, a Master in Audiovisual Culture and Media and a PhD in Multimedia, all from Unicamp. 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 nee feature film: “Blooming on the asphalt” (to be released in 2021).
