''Brief Story from the Green Planet'' ( es, Breve historia del planeta verde) is a 2019 internationally co-produced
science fiction adventure film directed by Argentine filmmaker
Santiago Loza
Santiago Loza (born April 15, 1971, in Córdoba, Argentina) is an Argentine film director. He studied at Universidad Nacional Film School, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA)´s Escuela Nacional de Experimentación y Realizaci ...
. The film centres on Tania (Romina Escobar), a young
transgender woman mourning the recent death of her grandmother, who discovers that her grandmother was taking care of an
extraterrestrial
Extraterrestrial refers to any object or being beyond ( extra-) the planet Earth ( terrestrial). It is derived from the Latin words ''extra'' ("outside", "outwards") and ''terrestris'' ("earthly", "of or relating to the Earth"). It may be abbrevia ...
alien and embarks on a quest with her longtime friends Daniela (Paula Grinszpan) and Pedro (Luis Sodá) to return the creature to where it was originally found.
The film is an
international co-production between
Argentina,
Brazil,
Germany and
Spain.
The film premiered at the
2019 Berlin Film Festival
The 69th annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 7 to 17 February 2019. French actress Juliette Binoche served as the Jury President. Lone Scherfig's drama film '' The Kindness of Strangers'' opened the festival. The Golden Bea ...
, where it won the
Teddy Award for best LGBTQ-themed feature film.
"Berlin: 'Brief Story from the Green Planet' Wins Teddy Award for Best LGBTQ Film"
'' The Hollywood Reporter'', February 16, 2019.
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2019 films
2010s science fiction adventure films
2019 LGBT-related films
Argentine science fiction adventure films
Argentine LGBT-related films
LGBT-related science fiction films
Films about trans women
2010s Spanish-language films
Argentine coming-of-age films
LGBT-related coming-of-age films
2010s Argentine films
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