Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields review – sensitive study of trans women’s struggles | Film
What makes this documentary about a community of transgender women in Argentina so powerful is the feeling of intimacy and closeness. Director Isabelle Solas films her subjects with sensitivity and insight – and in return they open up their lives for the camera. That said, the film doesn’t exactly make it easy for audiences outside Argentina, giving virtually no explanation or context. It opens with scenes from the 2018 trial of a man convicted of stabbing to death a trans woman, Diana Sacayán. But it takes a bit of…