Lola at the Sea & talk on the acceptance of transgender people
Just as 18-year-old transgender Lola (Mya Bollaers, in her first role) learns she can finally have surgery, her mother, her only financial support, passes away.
Abiding by her last wishes, Lola and her estranged father Philippe (Benoît Magimel) travel to the Belgian coast and learn to re-read their family history in light of the other’s experience, getting a chance to try and make peace with a traumatic past that they’ll finally be able to share.
Belgian director Laurent Micheli explores the anger and provokes an authentic energy, while revealing tough truths in quite exceptional ways. Micheli, served by a wonderful duo of actors, captures the complexity and delves into the conflicting relationship between a transgender daughter and her overwhelmed dad, who had always rejected her, unable to accept the loss of the son he once had.
Trailer and images
Discussion
Talk about the acceptance of transgender people
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Sara Arumetsa
Sara Arumetsa is a junior research fellow and a doctoral student at Tallinn University. In her doctoral thesis, she is studying the relationship between social movements and social norms, focusing in particular on the trans movement and the animal advocacy movement. As an activist, Sara promotes the right to health for LGBT+ people.
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Moderator Sasha Milyakina
Sasha Milyakina, PhD, is a researcher in Semiotics at the University of Tartu, an artist and queer activist. She helps with Q-Space's social media and manages LGBTQ+ community centre "Behemoth" in Tartu. As a queer person herself, she sees her life goal in supporting marginalised communities and helping them to thrive.
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