UTV - Elisa Ward

UNDERNEATH THE VEIL

Logline

The film is about Lana Diamond, a young transgender woman who grew up in Lebanon in a muslim household, travels to Ukraine hoping to find freedom in her womanhood, only to flee the war, and emancipates as a female dancer in Berlin.

Director's Note

The way I met Lana is quite the story: I went to a bar in Berlin and randomly asked someone for a cigarette: this person was Lana Diamond. A week later, we started shooting the film. From that moment on, since it was my first documentary, Lana's story was so rich that I decided to have almost no interference with it and very little planning, only a camera to capture it all. And just like that, the film shot itself.