The filmmaker Pink boiler28, who has experience with transgender theme films, watched the movie “Emilia Pérez”Three times to understand the lines of the work and the depth of criticism made to the film that competes for 13 Oscar statuettes. In an interview with CNNHe states that-even in the face of problems-the repercussion of the French feature is important.
“We are talking about many contradictions, but also about a trans community that faces many challenges. The trans community in Brazil and internationally has huge structural challenges. We are always fighting for the right to lifewith a 37 -year life expectancy and high giant suicide rates. We are debating very basic issues. So there is no way not to say that having a protagonist trans actress of one is not some kind of victory. It is obvious that it is a breakthrough, because we are talking about a population still very marginalized within society, ”he says.
Boiler – which identifies itself as a trans – Declares that it brings him an important trans representativeness, but one cannot but make the necessary criticisms not to advance in the debates “anyway”. He believes that having an international is essential.
“Just as we debate about cis actors interpreting trans characters, we need to question the realization of narratives about countries and cultures without proper representativeness. ‘Emilia Perez’ has an outdated view of trans reality, extolling a. Does not discuss the transition processonly shows a character going from a stereotype of extreme masculinity to a femininity stereotype without showing nuances. A is much less about physical aspects and much more about social aspects. ”
The filmmaker explains that this film does not contribute to the debates that the trans community wants to bring about the gender transition, speaks more about transitions of physical than social aspects. For this reason, the criticism of production has a foundation because the film, according to him, is stereotyped.
“We need more humanized representations of trans people in the cinema. It is not this kind of movie that will reduce trans mortality or increase our presence in the job market. What will make a difference is to bring more trans people to work in the movies and talk about their own stories. People identify more for similarities and not by differences. There is no more room for this type of product, ”he points out.
From real life to movie screens
The latest work of Rosa Caldeira, “Anba Dlo”, in co-production and coding with Luiza Calagian, was one of the only two Latin American films selected for the Berlin Festival in 2025, and talks about the mourning theme. But his trajectory in the cinema began with the short film “Perifericu” in 2019, which addressed the trans experience on the outskirts of São Paulo.
He says he tries to talk about his work on matters that cross his own experience from a trans perspective. Thus, the process of transition from Caldeira, as a trans person, was crossed by the arts, because – as an artist – understood his transition also from his artistic expressing.
“I think as a trans person, anything I say has the power of a person who had to cross and hit the whole system to be who is, but not necessarily talks about this experience. My question with cinema is not necessarily related to my transition, but I am militant within the cinema by trans narratives and more trans people in the cinema, because they are really spaces that we do not go so much, since cinema is a very elite art, ”he says.
The filmmaker comments that the trans community fights more and more for this space of trans people talking about their own perspective – something that was possibly not thought by. He points out that telling the story of a transgender woman is not only having her in front of the cameras, but also behind the productions.
“This is because it is very symptomatic to have so many productions on trans theme being indicated in, but only a trans director has been nominated as director. We had several films with trans themes awarded Oscar. ”
