Tangerine

Part of the special series THE EMPATHY OF SEAN BAKER

It's Christmas Eve in Los Angeles, but instead of contemplation and charity, transsexual prostitute Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) has other things on her mind. Freshly released from prison, she meets up with her friend Alexandra (Mya Taylor), who also works as a prostitute, and learns some shocking news: Her boyfriend Chester (James Ransone), who is also her pimp, is said to have cheated on her with a ‘real’ woman! Of course Sin-Dee doesn't want to take this lying down and, with Alexandra in tow, she sets off to confront both the cheating boyfriend and his affair. Although she is determined not to cause any drama, the friends‘ odyssey through L.A.’s colourful transgender scene is not without its minor upheavals...

The sensation of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival! A film shot entirely on an iPhone, following Baker's passion for a donut shop in his neighbourhood, a dodgy area with a notorious reputation on Santa Monica Boulevard. However, it is not only the innovative style of the film that is exciting and unusual, but also its captivating protagonists, above all Sin-Dee Rella, a black, transsexual prostitute. Her quest for revenge is pretty much the craziest, fastest and wildest thing you've seen on the big screen for a long time.