Cristián is an intimate, first-person documentary told through a diary-to-camera approach, drawing the audience directly into Cristián’s world as he navigates the first year of his medical, legal, and social transition. Filmed from the inside out, he serves as both subject and storyteller, offering a perspective that refuses distance and instead insists on proximity, presence, and truth.
Through raw, immediate recordings and deeply personal archival footage captured before his transition, the film creates a layered portrait of becoming. These images are vulnerable, poetic, and at times disorienting, collapsing past and present as he confronts who he was, who he is, and who he is fighting to become. The result is not just a record of transition, but an embodied experience of it.
At its core, Cristián explores identity, vulnerability, and self-understanding, while deliberately centering trans joy as a necessary and radical force.
Set against an escalating political landscape in which trans lives are both hyper-visible and increasingly targeted, the film carries an urgent weight. By placing the audience inside this journey, Cristián challenges passive observation and instead demands emotional and ethical engagement.
At its heart, Cristián asks: What does it mean to witness oneself becoming? And what becomes possible when that transformation is seen, held, and shared?
