Lufe Steffen

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Lufe Steffen

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We Are the Future
1h 43m
Movie 2023

We Are the Future

In the 1980s, the musical and futuristic teacher Clara Celeste arrives at a school surrounded by bullying problems driven by issues of ethnicity, sexuality, gender, physique, and behavior. With the teacher's help, a group of students are finally able to find their voice and experience empowerment, with the freedom to live as they wish. Despite this, prejudice still surrounds the school, always seeking to intimidate the students. To win this battle against intolerance and censorship, the group will need to stick together and believe in the power of change.

Biography

Lufe Steffen is a filmmaker, writer, and journalist from São Paulo, Brazil. He graduated in Communications and Acting and works in media outlets targeted towards LGBTQ+ audiences, developing films related to the theme since 1997, when he first began his research on Brazilian queer cinema. Produced and directed two feature documentaries, both on São Paulo's queer night scene: "São Paulo in Hi-Fi" (2016) and "Freak Night Fever in São Paulo" (2012). As a writer, producer, and director, he made ten short films, all traversing the LGBTQ+ universe of the Brazilian city.