Bad Education aka La mala educación is a film from Spain, released in 2004, starring Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar, Francisco Maestre, Francisco Boira, Juan Fernández, Nacho Pérez, Raúl García Forneiro, Javier Cámara and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, Alicia Fdez. Alberdi, Adolfo Bellido, Jorge Dorado, Ainara Gamero, Patricia Guadaño, David Martínez.
Plot: When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.