Brief Story from the Green Planet

Brief Story from the Green Planet
Film poster
SpanishBreve historia del planeta verde
Directed bySantiago Loza
Written bySantiago Loza
Produced byPaulo Carvalho
Ángeles Hernández
David Matamoros
Luana Melgaço
Constanza Sanz Palacios
StarringRomina Escobar
Paula Grinszpan
Luis Sodá
CinematographyEduardo Crespo
Edited byIair Michel Attias
Lorena Moriconi
Production
companies
Anavilhana Filmes
Autentika Films
Constanza Sanz Palacios Films
Zentropa
Release date
  • 11 February 2019 (2019-02-11) (Berlin)
Running time
75 minutes
CountriesArgentina
Germany
Brazil
Spain
LanguageSpanish

Brief Story from the Green Planet (Spanish: Breve historia del planeta verde) is a 2019 internationally co-produced science fiction adventure film directed by Argentine filmmaker Santiago Loza. The film centres on Tania (Romina Escobar), a young transgender woman mourning the recent death of her grandmother, who discovers that her grandmother was taking care of an extraterrestrial alien and embarks on a quest with her longtime friends Daniela (Paula Grinszpan) and Pedro (Luis Sodá) to return the creature to where it was originally found.[1]

The film is an international co-production between Argentina, Brazil, Germany and Spain.

The film premiered at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival,[2] where it won the Teddy Award for best LGBTQ-themed feature film.[3]