Things We Dare Not Do
“A secret, many kids, a party, a dead body, silence, voices, laughs, and games. A boy asks his parents for permission to dress as a woman.”
In the small Mexican coastal village of El Roblito, 16-year-old Ñoño lives what seems to be an idyllic existence with his loving family. But he holds a secret. Defying gender norms, Ñoño works up the courage to tell his family he wants to live his life as a woman, a fraught decision in a country shrouded in machismo and transphobia.
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Bruno Santamaría Razo Director · Tomás Barreiro Composer Andrea Rabasa Editor
United States release October 14, 2020 · Produced in Mexico · Production Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía
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Ojo de Vaca
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Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad
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Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía
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foprocine
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Mexico
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Original title
Cosas que no hacemos
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Spanish
Release dates
Canada · April 30, 2020
Premiere · Hot Docs
United States · October 14, 2020
Premiere · Chicago Int'l Film Festival (Best Documentary)
United States
October 25, 2021 · TV · PBS "POV" (possibly a TV edit)
Finland
January 29, 2021 · internet DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival
Germany
May 1, 2021 · DOK. fest München
Mexico
March 20, 2021 · FICUNAM
Netherlands
November 21, 2020 · virtual cinema International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
Peru
August 21, 2020 · internet Festival de Cine de Lima
Poland
September 3, 2021 · Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
Serbia
September 11, 2021 · Beldocs
South Korea
September 17, 2020 · Premiere · DMZ Int'l Documentary Film Festival
United Kingdom
September 12, 2020 · Premiere · Open City Documentary Film Festival, London - European premiere
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