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Transvestite Love

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  • 2026
  • Running Time
    1 hour 8 minutes
  • Genre
    Documentary
  • Language
    Spanish
  • Completed
    May 7, 2026, Argentina

A teenager in transition and her mother’s fears. Ballroom culture becomes a source of political and emotional support for the trans community.

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About the film

Directed by Lucrecia Mastrangelo, the film follows Aurora, a teenager navigating her gender transition while gradually building her identity and imagining her future. Alongside her personal hopes, uncertainties, and fears, her relationship with her mother occupies a central place in the story, revealing the emotional complexities that accompany change, understanding, and acceptance within a family.

The film also enters the world of the Ballroom Movement, which becomes an important space of belonging, affection, and political support for Aurora and the trans community. Within this environment, she finds connection and a community where diverse identities can be expressed and affirmed. Through Aurora’s intimate journey, the documentary explores identity, family relationships, community, diversity, and the importance of spaces where trans people can find support and recognition.

 

About the director

Lucrecia Mastrangelo is an Argentine filmmaker, audiovisual communicator, educator, and documentary director from Rosario. A graduate of the Provincial School of Film and Television of Rosario, where she later taught for more than 20 years, her filmmaking developed from an early engagement with social realities often overlooked by society. Her documentary work has consequently focused particularly on women, marginalization, social exclusion, gender, and human rights. She has also served on documentary evaluation and festival juries and was recognized as a Distinguished Artist of the City of Rosario. Bio Filmografía actual Bio Filmografía actual

Her filmography includes De Carne y Sueño (1997), Refugios (1997), Sexo, Dignidad y Muerte (2010), the documentary series Nosotros Detrás del Muro (2012), and El Laberinto de las Lunas (2019), a documentary about trans motherhood and childhood that received several awards and international festival selections. Her later documentary Amor Trava (2025), centered on the travesti/trans community, continued this commitment and received awards at international festivals, including Best LGBT Film at the Palermo International Film Festival and Best LGBT Documentary at the Orlando Independent Film Festival.

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Cast

Aurora Sánchez
Estela Sánchez
Gala Curimba

Crew

Lucrecia Mastrangelo — Writer & Director
Verónica Rossi — Script & Editing Consultant
Marcos Garfagnoli — Director of Photography
Jimena Chaves — Production Sound
Dafne Usorach — Original Music
Santiago Zecca (ASA) — Sound Post-Production
Jeronimo Cabassi (IAAVIM) — Color Post-Production
Carla Luchini — Production