A documentary on the road that tracks the journey by Georgina, an elderly transgender woman forced to cross the sandy peninsula Guajira, on foot, to obtain the thing she has desired for almost half a century: a document that will hand her the right to be what she has always felt she was, and will allow her, at long last, to vote.
Directed by Mónica Taboada-Tapia
transsexuality
indigenous
civil rights
social issues
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“Are there other people like me?”
This question is asked by the protagonist Georgina. An Indigenous trans woman who has never met anyone like herself. She lives a life in the desert that feels straight out of a post-apocalyptic film except there is no apocalypse – or is there?
In La Guajira, Indigenous lifes are systematically excluded. Georginas dream is to finally get her Identification Document to be able to vote after almost 50 years. Her story reflects the fate of many indigenous people in Colombia: being unable to truly take part in society. But for Georgina it’s also a fight for her own Identity.
Georgina’s life shows that the apocalypse already happened for some people suppressed by system and society. But at the same time her story is full of hope and shows us that everything is worth fighting for, no matter how unlikely things seem and how different you are.
“Are there other people like me?”
This question is asked by the protagonist Georgina. An Indigenous trans woman who has never met anyone like herself. She lives a life in the desert that feels straight out of a post-apocalyptic film except there is no apocalypse – or is there?
In La Guajira, Indigenous lifes are systematically excluded. Georginas dream is to finally get her Identification Document to be able to vote after almost 50 years. Her story reflects the fate of many indigenous people in Colombia: being unable to truly take part in society. But for Georgina it’s also a fight for her own Identity.
Georgina’s life shows that the apocalypse already happened for some people suppressed by system and society. But at the same time her story is full of hope and shows us that everything is worth fighting for, no matter how unlikely things seem and how different you are.
