Sean Baker’s transgender drama was named best fiction film as Rio De Janeiro Film Festival top brass celebrated the best LGBTQ films of this year’s festival.

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The inaugural Suzy Capó award named after the festival programmer and original creator of the Felix prize who died earlier this year went to 72-year-old transgender TV star and personality Rogéria.

The Felix award for best documentary went to El Hombre Nuevo (The New Man, Uruguay-Chile-Nicaragua) by Aldo Garay and the special jury prize was presented to Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon’s Seashore (Beira-Mar, Brazil).