''Brief Story from the Green Planet'' ( es, Breve historia del planeta verde) is a 2019 internationally co-produced

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...

adventure An adventure is an exciting experience or undertaking that is typically bold, sometimes risky. Adventures may be activities with danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting, or other extreme ...

film directed by Argentine filmmaker Santiago Loza. The film centres on Tania (Romina Escobar), a young

transgender woman A trans woman or a transgender woman is a woman who was assigned male at birth. Trans women have a female gender identity, may experience gender dysphoria, and may transition; this process commonly includes hormone replacement therapy and so ...

mourning the recent death of her grandmother, who discovers that her grandmother was taking care of an extraterrestrial 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

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between

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and

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. The film premiered at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival, where it won the

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for best LGBTQ-themed feature film."Berlin: 'Brief Story from the Green Planet' Wins Teddy Award for Best LGBTQ Film"
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'', 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 {{LGBT-film-stub