Having faced constant rejection because of her identity, the trans woman behind Pepsi’s alias gathers enough courage to tell her story. While shooting the documentary, the relationship between the team and the protagonist strengthened, which resulted in a highly sensitive yet hard-to-watch film that is currently touring around film festivals like Barcelona’s L’Alternativa or Amsterdam’s International Queer & Migration Film Festival. When presenting his film in the Catalan city, we sat down with the Italian director to speak about cinema as a form of social change, as a link between people and as a frontier-breaker.