Really Happy Someday

[Screened March 22 at 16:20 p.m. and March 23 at 2:50 p.m. at the BFI Flare Festival as part of the festival's official selection that ran March 19-30 in the U.K.; for more information, log on to https://whatson.bfi.org.uk.] After failing an audition in Toronto due to taking testosterone months before that changed his voice in J. Stevens' compelling, poignant, realistic, heartfelt, well-acted, moving, highly personal, down-to-earth, 89-minute film, a transsexual musical performer (Breton Lalama), who has a supportive girlfriend (Khadijah Roberts-Abduallah) and works at a bar with a trans bartender (Xavier Lopez) to pay the bills, struggles to regain his singing ability and decides to take voice lessons from an understanding vocal coach (Ali Garrison).
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