Enigma

Emmy Award®-nominated director Zackary Drucker (The Stroll, PIFF 2023) returns with a fascinating exploration of two world-class performance legends and trans pioneers, April Ashley and Amanda Lear, who navigated public scrutiny of their identities in contrasting ways. April Ashley was immortalized as a trailblazer by embracing her transgender history, while Amanda Lear has consciously denied and obfuscated her personal history for decades. Their divergent paths reveal disparate but intertwined legacies in this revealing look at a vital piece of trans history of cabaret performers in Europe in the 1950s, while boldly highlighting their longstanding existence, which still resonates today.