The proposal is to follow the pregnancy of a transgender couple’s child – rapper Lorenzo Gabriel and singer and actress Isis Broken – but is designed as if it were a message to the child.
“Apollo has prepared for you, mother and father, this gift, this gift of understanding,” Isis says at the beginning of the story, introducing a beautiful documentary guided by scenes of intimacy and reflections on motherhood and fatherhood.
The film is directed by actress Tina Muller and Isis herself, both newcomers and winners at the Rio Film Festival in the documentary category for “Apolo” (the film also won the soundtrack award for “Plínio Profeta”).
On the way to their son’s birth, Isis and Lorenzo recall how they met (online, during the pandemic), go to medical appointments, discuss natural birth or caesarean section, and consider breastfeeding. Bias isn’t just a topic, it shows up in action in a conversation sequence with the app’s driver, recorded from the back seat of a car.
Making a film like “Apollo” ends up being an excellent response to this kind of hatred.