September 9, 2017
Release Date

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For Nonna Anna (2017)

Name: For Nonna Anna
Genre: Drama
Released: 2017-09-09

13m

Running Time

September 9, 2017
Release Date

External Links & Social Media

Plot.

In this raw and graceful testimony of intersectional womanhood, a trans girl has to care for her Italian grandmother. She assumes that her Nonna disapproves of her - but instead discovers a tender bond in their shared vulnerability.

Where to Watch.

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Cast & Crew.

Maya Henry

Chris

Jacqueline Tarne

Nonna

Anna Pecchia

Mom

Remy Barone

Young Chris

Luis De Filippis

Producer / Director / Writer

Lucah Rosenberg-Lee

Producer

Nava Rastegar

Producer

Kristy Neville

Editor

Kelly Jeffrey

Director of Photography

Details.

Release Date
September 9, 2017

Status
Released

Running Time
13m

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2025-02-13

This Movie Is About.

grandparent grandchild relationship

grandmother

trans woman

short

Wiki.

For Nonna Anna is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Luis De Filippis and released in 2017. The film stars Maya Henry as Chris, a young transgender woman caring for her ailing Italian grandmother Anna (Jacqueline Tarne).

According to De Filippis, the film was inspired by a desire to avoid the sensationalized aspects of many transgender-themed media representations, by writing a film in which the process of gender transition was not the driving narrative conflict.

The film premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. It was subsequently screened at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Award, and at the 2018 Inside Out Film and Video Festival, where De Filippis won the Emerging Canadian Artist award.

At the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019, the film was shortlisted for Best Live Action Short Drama.