Vera

Anderson Bigode Herzer was a Brazilian poet. He was a trans man. His poems were collected in a book. The film starts from his life. Bauer is at the centre of the story. Bauer grows up in a residential institution. What he lives through there is not easy. Prejudice meets him at every turn. After leaving the institution he takes a job. There he meets Clara. Clara is a young librarian. Something grows between the two of them. But how Bauer sees himself and how the people around him see him do not match. The film is among the earliest to put a trans man on screen. Ana Beatriz Nogueira was named best actress at Berlin in 1987. Raul Cortez and Aida Leiner also appear in the eighty eight minute film, a Brazilian production Sérgio Toledo finished in 1986.