Port Authority

Panorama

Port Authority is vehement, urgent and sensual

THE GUARDIAN
  • Archive - Festival 35
  • Director: Danielle Lessowitz
  • USA 2019
  • 101 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

On the steps outside New York City’s dizzying central bus station, Port Authority, a girl named Wye is dancing with her friends. Paul, a young drifter, watches her, transfixed by her beauty. When he finally works up the nerve to speak to her, the two hit it off immediately and Wye introduces him to the ballroom community, an underground LGBTQ subculture. Only then does Paul realize that Wye is a trans…

Danielle Lessovitz explores the themes of choice, identity and social pressure in a social realist-coming of age drama produced by Martin Scorsese.

Feature Debut


  • Director Danielle Lessowitz
  • Production Rodrigo Teixeira, Virginie Lacombe, Zachary Luke Kislevitz, Paris Kassidokostas-Latsis, Terry Dougas
  • Script Danielle Lessowitz
  • Cinematography Jomo Fray
  • Editing Clémence Samson, Matthew C. Hart
  • Music Matthew Herbert
  • Festivals Cannes
  • Actors Fionn Whitehead, Leyna Bloom, McCaul Lombardi, Louisa Krause, Will Dufault
  • Source MK2, Paris