Directed by Raúl Vidales Bohórquez

Starring Daniela Maldonado, Sahory Balaguera, María Fernanda Cepeda, Yoko Ruiz Ruiz

Colombia, 2022, 91 minutes

“Every Time I Die” is a hybrid feature film that blends documentary with fiction. The feature film approaches cinema as a ritual of symbolic transformation in the death experience of seven transwomen. The film’s testimonies, along with surreal and fantastic scenes, come together to narrate death viewed from different angles: as related to transfeminicides and as social death that seeks to nullify through exclusion and silence those seen as uncomfortable by others. The film also deals with the multiple deaths that we experience in life; death that speak of resignations, of forgetfulness, of separations, of changes. “Every Time I Die” is an invitation to shake off mourning through delirious weeping or through sagacious bursts of laughter, with the aim of seeing death through the eyes of those who radiate life, celebrate life, and struggle for life.”

Surreal, emotional and incredibly powerful, we are very proud to be screening this visually captivating piece of LGBTQ+ cinema as the opening feature length film of our first ever festival. It perfectly encapsulates so much of what this festival stands for and we can guarantee it’s a film you’ll still be thinking about long after the end credits begin to roll.