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Orlando, My Political Biography

Power to the people.

6.8(19)20231h 39m2

Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel "Orlando: A Biography" follows the centuries-spanning life of a young nobleman who awakens to find that they are a woman. Almost a century after its publication, Paul B. Preciado claims that fiction has become reality and Orlando's story lies at the root of all contemporary trans and non-binary life.

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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
$93.9K
Language
English
  • transsexuality
  • sex change
  • lgbt
  • fictional language
  • observational cinema
  • social change
  • non-binary
  • nonbinary
  • biographical fiction
  • fictional story

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France

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNew York Film Festival3 Oct 2023
    • TheatricalNR10 Nov 2023
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical12A5 Jul 2024
  • AustraliaAU

    • PremiereMelbourne Queer Film Festival17 Nov 2023
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical (limited)26 Jun 2024
    • Theatrical144 Jul 2024
  • CzechiaCZ

    • PremiereKarlovy Vary International Film Festival 30 Jun 2023
  • FranceFR

    • TVarte6 Dec 2023
    • Theatrical5 Jun 2024
  • GermanyDE

    • PremiereBerlin International Film Festival18 Feb 2023
    • Theatrical1214 Sept 2023
    • TVarte6 Dec 2023
  • IrelandIE

    • Theatrical12A5 Jul 2024
  • PolandPL

    • Theatrical29 Mar 2024
  • SpainES

    • Theatrical1211 Oct 2023
  • TaiwanTW

    • PremiereTaipei Golden Horse Film Festival10 Nov 2023
  • UkraineUA

    • PremiereSunny Bunny LGBTQIA+ Film Festival22 Jun 2023

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Orlando, My Political Biography was released on 14 September 2023.

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    CinemaSerf

    11/22/2025

    7/10

    Using Virginia Woolf’s ground-breaking “Orlando” novel, written in 1928, as an imaginative template, this documentary follows a group of people at various stages of their gender transitioning processes and tells their stories partly through contemporary interviews and partly by each of them playing characters - usually the title one - from the story. Given it’s all but a century old, the book and these speculative su…

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