The Journey of Monalisa (2019)

Original title

El viaje de Monalisa

Directed by

Nicole Costa

Genre

documentary film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Chile, United States

Runtime

1h 32m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows a transgender artist named Iván Monalisa as she lives in self-exile in New York. It shows her working as a prostitute and navigating her life away from home.

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What happens

The Journey of Monalisa (Spanish: El viaje de Monalisa) is a 2019 Chilean-American documentary film directed by Nicole Costa (in her directorial debut) and written by Costa, Daniela Camino and Melisa Miranda. It is about the journey of the transgender artist Iván Monalisa in her self-exile in New York where she worked as a prostitute. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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