Through a life story the film deals with issues related to human rights, such as the right to difference. The character's life is presented from others, otherness as a logic. The spectators complete the senses and gradually realize that this is a homosexual who, still in his adolescence, became a transvestite; "Amapoa" is a term that comes from Yoruba and has become transvestite slang for women. The film has a brutal ending, revealing that the character suffered a strong violence. Homophobia. The approach leads to identification with the character and allows reflections on the intolerance of today's society.
Kiko Goifman
Director
Welcome to Chechnya69%
Public Speaking70%
Disclosure78%
McQueen74%
Directed by John Ford70%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Extremis69%
The Class of ‘9271%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Tongues Untied66%
Harmontown66%
I Am Divine73%
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear70%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Looking for Richard68%
The Celluloid Closet72%
The Captains63%
Sherman's March67%
