Vera (1987, Brazil)

Vera was brought up in an orphanage and behaves as a boy.

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Gender bending is taken to extremes unimagined as director Sergio Toledos guides the stunning Beatriz Nogueria (1987 Berlin Film Festival Winner for Best Actress) in this story of a young woman who wants to reinvent herself, literally, as a man. Lesbianism is the norm in the orphanage where this 18-year-old Brazilian Butch Baby with an eat-your-heart-out-Anne-Murray haircut claims to be a man, but her lover, Clara (Aida Leiver), another orphan, insists they be equal as women -- "If I wanted a man I could have one!"

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