The renowned Argentine film director Daniel Burman (The broken embrace, Family law, Two brothers and the series Iosi: the repentant spy) returned to the big screen with Transmitzvaha nice queer fable about trans identity and the Jewish religion. The details of the film that After its exhibition it will be seen on the platform Netflix.
Transmitzvah It is a love story between brothers, who expose their wounds, exchange the pieces that each one has of the other and complete (or begin), the process of reaffirming their own identity. Ruben, the youngest son of the Singman family, defies norms by preparing for a Bat Mitzvah instead of a Bar Mitzvah. Twenty years later, Rubén, now Mumy Singer, is a Yiddish song celebrity and returns to his hometown. After a family tragedy, Mumy loses her voice and seeks to complete that delayed step to adulthood with the help of her brother Eduardo. “A comedy with a musical, playful and festive dialogue about Mumy Singer, and his journey to the past to invent himself outside of shortcuts and labels. Traversing the path of who we are is always a present that must be traveled,” indicates the official premise of the film with which Burman returns to the cinema after a long period in directing and producing series.
The film stars the Spanish actress Penélope Guerrero and Juan Minujín in the roles of Mumy and Eduardo, and its cast is completed by Alejandra Flechner, Gustavo Bassani, Alejandro AwadaItzik Cohen, Carlos Belloso, Damian Dreizik, Carla Quevedo. Without a defined date, the film that can now be seen in theaters will arrive on the streaming platform Netflix expanding the offer of national films.
What Daniel Burman says about Transmitzvah
In production notes, Daniel Burman presents his film as “a unique and disruptive historical work about the search for an identity that goes beyond gender issues. It is an existential and humanist comedy about the encounter with oneself and with others, including that other that resides within each one, and with which we must reconcile. It is a journey into the past to refound the origin, to invent and establish its own laws, moving away from shortcuts and labels. Traversing the path of who we are is always a present that must be traveled.”
“Transmitzvah is an epic love story between two brothers who, in the course of the journey, expose their wounds, exchange the pieces that each has of the other and complete (or begin) the process of reaffirming their own identity. Furthermore, it is a musical, playful and festive dialogue with a legacy, with the purpose of rewriting it. A fabulous and mythical story about Mumy Singer, in the saga of the lives of the great singers. Because, as the Kabbalists say, the world is literally broken, like a vase in pieces, and only the actions of men and women, or whatever each person wants to be, can repair it,” adds the filmmaker whose last film was The King of Eleven (2016).
