With a flower name
Director: Carina Sama
Feature film · Argentina · 2020 · 63'
Malva lives in a nursing home in the province of Buenos Aires and has the ailments of old age that are beginning to hinder her. He keeps his house in Villa Urquiza, where he goes on weekends, where he has evidence of his life, such as crossing on foot from his native Chile, abandoning his roots, creating other worlds. Who, who is that grandmother: Cook, Writer, Dressmaker. Malva is 95 years old, and she is a transvestite who exceeds the average trans life by three. Almost a century of life when differences were abysses of marginality. Maybe a minotaur inside Pandora's box. Malva died a week before starting the film we dreamed of, but for a year and a half she told us about her life in front of the camera. Together with the Trans reference Marlene Wayar, we try to reveal the mystery, analyzing her avant-garde militant activity and the commotion it caused in our lives.