Valentina

[Available to watch between Oct. 16 at 12 a.m. and Oct. 22 at 11:59 p.m. as part of the 8th annual Cine Latino at Home festival at the MSP Film Society at the St. Anthony on Main Theater; for information, log on to mspfilm.org or ticketing@mspfilm.org.] When a strong-willed, transgendered, 17-year-old high school student (Thiessa Woinbackk) finds herself bullied at her former school in Brazil and moves with her protective mother (Guta Stresser), who works as a nurse and is separated from her husband (Rômulo Braga), to another town with the hopes of getting a fresh start and registering with the school administrator (Maria de Maria) at a new school in this award-winning, poignant, well-acted, realistic, inspirational, coming-of-age, 95-minute film, she finds herself supported by a lonely, gay student (Ronaldo Bonafro) and a pregnant teenager (Letícia Franco) especially after a classmate (Pedro Diniz) and his brother (João Gott) expose her secret.
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