Beto Rosero

Soul of the Desert

A documentary on the road that tracks the journey by Georgina, an elderly transgender woman forced to cross the sandy peninsula Guajira, on foot, to obtain the thing she has desired for almost half a century: a document that will hand her the right to be what she has always felt she was, and will allow her, at long last, to vote.

Red Flag

The happy summer atmosphere on the beach in the downtown area of the Colombian city of Cartagena is rudely disrupted by bulldozers and excavators dumping huge boulders in the surf. The work is to combat the dangers of rising sea levels caused by global climate change. To protect the coastline, this part of the beach will soon have to close: no more sunbeds and parasols, no more jet skis, no more seaside fun and games. But what are the regular visitors, beach vendors and lifeguards supposed to do now?

Two-Spirit

A transgender woman in a small indigenous community in Colombia, Georgina counters the hostility directed at her with the words, ‘I have only love’.