A plucky Filipino transsexual hopes porn and prostitution will form a gateway to international travel and true love in The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela. Shot digitally and semi-improvised, likeable if rambling first feature by Icelandic helmer Olaf de Fleur Johannesson (Africa United) evinces the helmer's background in documaking, and reps a kind of quasi-doc itself with real-life trannies riffing on their own personas. Pic took top feature prize at the Berlinale's Teddy Awards and should globetrot around gay fests.
Raquela (Raquela Rios), a "lady boy" who's not yet had full gender reassignment surgery, works as a prostitute in a Filipino city. An avid chatroom user, she hopes to find a foreign husband who will fly her overseas. She's drawn into the world of Internet pornography via Michael (Stefan Schaefer), a sleazy Yank pornmeister, who suggests a meeting in Paris, but first Raquela journeys to Iceland to earn cash in a fish factory. Although pic doesn't shy away from the dangers of its heroine's lifestyle, all ends happily enough, making for a kind of gritty fairy tale.
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