FR 2023 | Director, Script: Paul B. Preciado | Camera: Victor Zebo | Editor: Yotam Ben David | Sound: Arno Ledoux | Music: Clara Deshayes | Cast: Oscar-Roza Miller, Janis Sahraoui, Liz Christin, Elios Levy, Victor Marzouk, Paul B. Preciado, Kori Ceballos, Vanasay Khamphommala, Ruben Rizza, Julia Postollec, Amir Baylly, Naëlle Dariya, Jenny Bel’Air, Emma Avena, Lillie, Arthur, Eleonore, La Bourette, Noam Iroual, Iris Crosnier, Clara Deshayes | Production: Les Films du Poisson | Colour | DCP | 98 min | french OV with german SUB | FSK 12 | Salzgeber

In "Orlando" (1928), Virginia Woolf tells the story of a young man's transformation into a woman. Nearly 100 years after the publication of the novel, now considered a seminal queer text, philosopher and trans activist Paul B. Preciado writes a cinematic letter to Woolf, in which he calls out: "Your character has come to life; today's world is full of Orlandos!" Preciado traces his own transition and lets 25 other trans and non-binary people ages 8 to 70 slip into the role of Orlando to give them a voice. "Woolf's fictional character allowed me to imagine my own life, to desire and express change." Thus Preciado's film is also a "political biography", written along the lines of his own and of all other Orlandos' collective histories. It's still a history of the struggle for recognition and visibility within a heteronormative regime.