A film by Sebastián Lelio. "A Fantastic Woman" won the Oscar 2018 for The Best Foreign Language Film. "A Fantastic Woman" celebrated its world premiere in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival 2017 and won the Silver Bear Best Screenplay and the Teddy Award
Marina and Orlando are in love and planning for the future.
Marina is a young waitress and aspiring singer. Orlando is 20 years older than her, and owns a printing company.
After celebrating Marina’s birthday one evening, Orlando falls seriously ill. Marina rushes him to the emergency room, but he passes away just after arriving at the hospital.
Instead of being able to mourn her lover, suddenly Marina is treated with suspicion. The doctors and Orlando's family don't trust her. A woman detective investigates Marina to see if she was involved in his death. Orlando's ex-wife forbids her from attending the funeral. And to make matters worse, Orlando’s son threatens to throw Marina out of the flat she shared with Orlando.
Marina is a trans woman and for most of Orlando’s family, her sexual identity is an aberration, a perversion.
So Marina struggles for the right to be herself. She battles the very same forces that she has spent a lifetime fighting just to become the woman she is now – a complex, strong, forthright and fantastic woman.
Participant Media (USA) presents a Fabula (Chile) production, in co-production with Komplizen Film (Germany), Muchas Gracias (Chile), Setembro Cine (Spain) and ZDF/Arte, funded by Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y Las Artes, Corfo, Ibermedia, Medienboard, FFA and DFFF.
Marina Vidal
Daniela Vega
Orlando Onetto
Francisco Reyes
Directed by
Sebastián Lelio
Screenplay
Sebastián Lelio
Gonzalo Maza
Director of Photography
Benjamín Echazarreta
Editing
Soledad Salfate
Production Design
Estefanía Larraín
Costume Design
Muriel Parra
Sound Designer
Tina Laschke
Original Music
Matthew Herbert
Line producer
Eduardo Castro
Executive Producers
Jeff Skoll
Jonathan King
Rocío Jadue Z.
Mariane Hartard
Ben von Dobeneck
Co-producers
Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Maren Ade (Komplizen Film)
Fernanda del Nido (Setembro Cine)
Producers
Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Sebastián Lelio, Gonzalo Maza (Fabula)
Berlinale 2017
Competition - Silver Bear Best Screenplay and Teddy Award
Festival du Film de Cabourg
Winner Grand Prix (Best Film) & Prix de la Jeunesse (Youth Award)
Lima International Film Festival
Winner Special July Prize and Best Actress
Mar del Plata International Film Festival
Latin American Best Mercosur Feature Film
Fenix Ibero-American Awards
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress
Palm Springs International Film Festival
Fipresci Jury Award: Best Actress in a Foreign Language
Film Independent Spirit Award
Nominated for Best International Film
Goya Awards
Best Iberoamerican Film
Oscars 2018
Best Foreign Language Film
Platino Awards
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Actress - Daniela Vega
Berlinale Competition
Transilvania International Film Festival
Biografilm Festival Bologna
Festival du Film de Cabourg
Art Film Fest
Moscow International Film Festival
T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival
Lima International Film Festival
Cine Ceara Festival Ibero-americano de Cinema
World Cinema Amsterdam Festival
Telluride Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Adana International Film Festival
Athens International Film Festival
San Sebastian International Film Festival
International Adana Film Festival
FilmEmiki Istanbul
BFI London Film Festival
Jio MAMI 19th Mumbai Film Festival with Star
Busan International Film Festival
Los Cabos International Film Festival
Stockholm International Film Festival
Films from the South
Mar del Plata Film Fest
International Film Festival of India, Goa
Human Rights Film Festival Zagreb
Fenix Ibero-American Awards
Costa Rica International Film Festival
Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano
Kerala International Film Festival
Golden Globes
Palm Springs International Film Festival
Bengaluru International Film Festivall
