Luciano

"Luciano cuts a slight figure as he wanders through the narrow streets of the improvised Barrio Tablada on the edge of Rosario, taking care of his mother and sister and the makeshift home they share, finding occasional work on building sites as the search for a proper job continues, lifting weights at the gym. Manuel Besedovsky lays out the different episodes of this precarious, if not atypical existence with such deliberate deemphasis that it feels almost like a plot twist when Luciano meets with a consultant to talk about the various options for constructing a penis. And yet this part of Luciano’s experience has actually been there all along – another thread woven often imperceptibly into the fabric of the film with gentleness and care.
Handing CVs out, hormone injections, smoking joints with buddies from the neighbourhood, talking to his mother about the daughter that is no longer there, some slightly awkward rapping, thinking about having children – the most radical thing about this portrait is how each challenge, each diversion, each encounter is presented with the same sense of normality with which Luciano experiences it. Class, gender identity and their seldom-seen intersection shown as nothing more than getting on with life."
(James Lattimer - DOK Leipziig)

Luciano vive con su madre y su hermana menor en un barrio marginal de la ciudad argentina de Rosario. Estudia, ayuda con las tareas domésticas y como el dinero siempre escasea, acepta cualquier tipo de trabajo temporal que pueda conseguir para ajudar a su familia, mientras busca un trabajo estable. Tras años de pasar largas horas en un gimnasio popular, finalmente ha logrado verse en el cuerpo que anhelaba. La vida, sin embargo, le impone nuevos desafíos en su incesante búsqueda por la construcción de su propia identidad.