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Title
Off Road (Fuoristrada)
Director
Elisa Amoruso
Country
Italy




Cast
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Production
A Films, Tangram Film
Distribution
Meproducodasolo
Genre
Documentary
Duration
72'
Year
2013
Festivals
Roma (Prospettive Award), Thessalonica, Boston (LGBT), Queer Lisboa, Frameline (San Francisco, LGBT), MIX Copenhagen, Seattle, Zinegoak (Bilbao), Guadalajara
First showing in
Spain
TRANS SCREEN
Off Road
EPino is a cheery, hard-working mechanic and handsome off-road rally racing champion who decides to become a woman, naming himself Beatrice. As a transgender, he meets Marianna, a nurse from Romania who is devoted to taking care of her elderly mother. Beatrice and Marianna fall in love. Fighting the prejudice of established society, both dressed as brides, the two of them manage to get married in Rome. As a consequence of their marriage, Beatrice becomes a father to Marianna's son, Daniele. Now wearing work clothes over prodigiously high heels, Beatrice continues to work as a mechanic and to pursue her undying passion for off-road racing, speeding across country far the asphalt.

Off Road is a touching love story between two veritable forces of nature, a story that also takes us on a ride along unknown paths through the life of a most unconventional family that lives in a very conventional country: Italy.