06.05.25, 20:30, Vestida de Azul (1983)

Madrid 1983. Encantada Eva, Nacha, Loren, Josette, Renée and Tamara. Six gorgeous ladies dressed in furs tip-toe along Calle Jorge Manrique until police cars with flashing lights and sirens cordon off the street. The six trans women are led away. Over a breezy brunch, they talk on camera about their experiences as artists and sex workers, about marginalisation and repression, about their youth and the discovery that they have long been trapped in the wrong body. Through hair removal sessions, hormone treatments and fitting hip pads, we get to know these engaging trans women better.

Director Antonio Giménez-Rico crossed not only the taboos of his time, but also the formal boundaries of filmmaking by combining staged scenes and documentary footage. This made the film a provocative, groundbreaking documentary that became a classic of Spanish queer cinema. It is hard to imagine Pedro Almodóvar's films without the path this film first took.