Pride: MICKEY (2026)
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Poly Platonic: Queer Communities
Presented through a generous partnership with Iowa City Pride
“A vivid examination of identity, queerness and self-acceptance, and the role memory plays in the process of defining ourselves and the world around us.”—Matthew Joseph Jenner, International Cinephile Society
Dano García’s Mickey is a lyrical and swirling portrait documentary of their childhood friend, a transgender woman named Mickey. This moniker of “childhood friend” might be a bit of a misnomer, as Mickey began as a person of admiration and grew to be a personal friend later in life. “We met when I was 11 years old, we’re both from Sinaloa, where we went to the same Catholic school,” García says. “She would put makeup on, and this had a big impact because it’s such a conservative area. To see a trans woman out and open, especially at that age, was very impactful.” Mickey recovers the past through reinvention and imagination, a hopeful and inventive ode to both friendship and self-love.
Presented through a generous partnership with Iowa City Pride
“A vivid examination of identity, queerness and self-acceptance, and the role memory plays in the process of defining ourselves and the world around us.”—Matthew Joseph Jenner, International Cinephile Society
Dano García’s Mickey is a lyrical and swirling portrait documentary of their childhood friend, a transgender woman named Mickey. This moniker of “childhood friend” might be a bit of a misnomer, as Mickey began as a person of admiration and grew to be a personal friend later in life. “We met when I was 11 years old, we’re both from Sinaloa, where we went to the same Catholic school,” García says. “She would put makeup on, and this had a big impact because it’s such a conservative area. To see a trans woman out and open, especially at that age, was very impactful.” Mickey recovers the past through reinvention and imagination, a hopeful and inventive ode to both friendship and self-love.
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