Movie Info

Orlando, My Political Biography

"Come, come! I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another." Taking Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando: A Biography as its starting point, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado has fashioned the documentary, Orlando, My Political Biography, as a personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto which premiered and took home four prizes at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival. For almost a century, Woolf's eponymous hero/heroine has inspired readers for their gender fluidity across physical and spiritual metamorphoses over a 300-year lifetime. Preciado casts a diverse cross-section of more than twenty trans and non-binary individuals in the role of Orlando as they perform interpretations of scenes from the novel, weaving into Woolf's narrative their own stories of identity and transition. Not content to simply update a seminal work, Preciado interrogates the relevance of Orlando in the continuing struggle against anti-trans ideologies and in the fight for global trans rights.

• Genre: Documentary   Lgbtq+  

• Original Language: French

• Director: Paul B. Preciado

• Producer: Yaël Fogiel Laetitia Gonzalez Annie Dekel-Ohayon Farid Rezkallah

• Writer: Paul B. Preciado Paul B. Preciado

• Release Date (Theaters): Nov 10, 2023 limited

• Runtime: 1h 39m

• Distributor: Paul B. Preciado

• Production Co: Les Films du Poisson

CAST & CREW

Paul B. Preciado

Paul B. Preciado

Victor Zébo

Clara Deshayes

Yaël Fogiel

Laetitia Gonzalez