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- DirectorCarlo LavagnaStarsOndina QuadriMassimo PopolizioValentina CarneluttiAs Arianna, 19, deals with the problems of development, memories creep to the surface when she explores her body during a visit to the family lake house.
- DirectorFulvio Balmer RebullidaStarsFulvio Balmer RebullidaYannick GeiserMarie MatuszLarry, goes back home with a girl he met in a bar. But when they reveal their intimacy to each other, he discovers that what she has between her legs is not exactly what he was expecting. This disturbing discovery will lead Larry to a quick trip into the depths of his sexual identity and his perception of gender.
- DirectorRoz MortimerFour intersex women tell their stories with eloquence and candor. This film questions how medicine and society have treated the intersexed, and breaks the codes of silence and secrecy that have surrounded their lives.
- DirectorAjae ClearwayOne in 2000 explores the lives of people who are born with sex anatomy that doesn't fit into standard male or female categories. Interweaving current stories with 1950's educational films, the experiences of intersex people are demystified.
- DirectorAjae ClearwayStarsSteve BilichLaurie CokerJeet LeeA classic coming-of-age story takes a powerful turn when Sean's struggle to understand who he really is explodes the lie that goes to the core of his being, his relationship with his father, and his future as a man.
- DirectorCyra K. PolizziStarsRichard ParoMarcus PetersonKatie Knutson13 GENDERS is an intimate and personal documentary. The interviewees attempt to articulate their interactions with and attitudes toward their own gender expression, intersex and transgender issues, gender in entertainment and the workplace, sexual preference and the future of gender. The non-expert interviews, woven together with music and movie clips, are sometimes funny, often contradictory and occasionally surprisingly similar.
- DirectorGrant LahoodStarsMani MitchellWhen a baby is born, the first question we ask. Is it a boy or a girl? What if it's neither?
- DirectorPhoebe HartStarsPhoebe HartBonnie HartJames DavidsonDocumentary filmmaker, Phoebe Hart, comes clean on a journey of self-discovery around her hidden intersex condition.
- DirectorJ.B. Ghuman Jr.StarsSavannah StehlinRodney EastmanRobert L. BradvicaA colorful and foul-mouthed feature musical comedy. A film about a frizzy-haired, pink-cheeked outcast named Spork who is trying to navigate her way through the annals of junior high. When a school dance show provides a chance for Spork to show up a mean girls gang, her trailer-park neighbor steps up to coach her with some "booty-poppin" moves. Featuring a vintage '90s soundtrack (that includes 2-Live Crew, JJ Fad's "SuperSonic," Dimples T's "Get It Girl"), a score by Casey James and the Staypuft Kid; and extended school hall dance sequences, Spork is a film about standing out and fitting in.
- DirectorMahesh BhattStarsParesh RawalPooja BhattSharad S. KapoorIn 1975 Mahim, Bombay, eunuch Tikku is the only child of yesteryear Bollywood actress Nazneen Begum, who has fallen upon hard times, is virtually destitute, and is dependent on Tikku, who does make-up/hairdressing of Bollywood actresses. When she passes away, Tikku is beside himself with grief. After the funeral, he witnesses a woman leaving a child in a garbage bin. Longing for human company after his mother's death, Tikku picks up the girl-child, decides to keep her, names her Tamanna, and brings her up on his own. When she is old enough, he arranges for her education in St. Mary's High School's hostel. When she completes school, she returns home to find Tikku in the guise of a Hijra and shuns him, but subsequently relents. Then Tikku finds out that Tamanna is the daughter of up-and-coming politician Ranvir Chopra, and when he tells her, she goes to his palatial house. How will this impact the entire Chopra family? And what excuse do they produce for abandoning her?
- DirectorJake YuznaStarsTempest CraneJendeen ForbergGaea GaddyInterweaving love stories centering on real individuals who are utilizing medicine to explore new frontiers of love, sex, and the human form.
- DirectorPorter GaleLaleh SoomekhKristi Bruce and Howard Devore, both born intersex, talk eloquently about their experience of a medical model based upon shame, secrecy, and forced "normalization."
- DirectorSimon SavoryStarsCassandra PetersonSheena MetalAshleigh SumnerEarlene arrives at Venice Beach after running away from an estranged lover, only to become fast friends with an Australian skater who is also lost. Together, they set out into the desert to find themselves.
- DirectorMonika TreutStarsSusan StrykerTexas TomboyAnnie SprinkleMonika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several transgender individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine, Gendernauts, enters a minority sector of San Fransisco culture. The individuals in this film are people whose assigned gender at birth does not match their social gender identity. The subject is pinpointed in the film independent of sexual orientation. Leave your conservative hats at the door, this is going to need your special attention.
- DirectorCynthia ArraMélissa ArraStarsMaud-Yeuse ThomasTom ReucherVincent AvronsFar from the usual way of addressing trans and intersexe issues, L'ordre des mots takles this community's questions on sexual identity head on.
- DirectorEli se Mbessakwini
- DirectorPhyllis WardStarsCheryl ChaseKathryn ClarkSallie M. FoleyThis video tape is addressed to medical and mental health professionals, but is quite accessible to a lay audience as well. "Intersex" is the general term used to denote a variety of conditions in which a person is born with mixed sex anatomy. It is important to note that intersex conditions sometimes involve "ambiguous genitalia" but that intersexuality is not always evident from an external examination. Intersexuality may be caused by congenital adrenal hyperplasia, mixed gonadal dysgenesis, androgen insensitivity syndrome (complete or partial), 5-alpha reductase deficiency, and many others. The traditonal standard of care held that normal gender identity could be assigned through genital plastic surgery and by limiting information given to parents and patient. Many patients were subjected to multiple surgeries. Over the last ten years, new evidence and advances in medical ethics have led to the need for revision in the standard of care for the treatment of intersex. This film outlines the problems with many current practices and provides guidelines for a new standard of care that is more advanced scientifically and ethically. We gathered a group of experts, including medical professionals, an adult with intersex, and a parent to talk about these issues.
- DirectorMauricio López FernándezMaría (13) is an intersex girl (hermaphrodite) who is forced by her father to impersonate the Holly Virgin Mary at the procession of their town, because he thinks this is the only way she can "get fixed"
- DirectorVertna WestStarsWhisper Leigh SmytheYou feel like you're a girl, but to everyone else and on the outside, you're a boy. You go along with it, just to not make waves, but then during puberty you develop breasts. Eventually, you marry as a man and even father children. Until one day, you decide that enough is enough. Born an XXY male, 61 year old Leigh Smythe has always been "in between" male and female. Leigh lived as a man for over 58 years, but always felt like there was a woman trapped inside. Although she yearns to live 24/7 as a female, currently, she must bounce back and forth between being a woman and a man. She lives her social life as a transgender activist and aspiring drag performer (competing against contestants less than half her age); and his work life as a man delivering newspapers (the only job he can find). Watch as she/he speaks candidly of her/his inner struggles of living with dual gender identities. Vertna Bradley's "Whisper Leigh" questions the notions of the strong and hard socially constructed and widely accepted definitions and characteristics of what it means to be male or female as it reveals the slippage of identity that can occur in defining gender.
- DirectorAntony ThomasStarsGore VidalCalpernia AddamsBeth AynsleyExamines the diversity of human sexual and gender variance around the globe, with commentary by scientific experts and first-hand accounts of people who do not conform to a simple male/female binary.
- DirectorMichael SpierigPeter SpierigStarsEthan HawkeSarah SnookNoah TaylorAs his last assignment, a temporal agent is tasked to travel back in time and prevent a bomb attack in New York in 1975. The hunt, however, turns out to be beyond the bounds of possibility.
- StarsKatie CouricKatie Couric sets out to explore the rapidly evolving complexities of gender identity.
- StarsIlizane BroksXenia BroksSteph TonnerA documentary on intersexual children and adults.
- DirectorDel La Grace VolcanoStarsDel La Grace VolcanoDel embarks on a journey with his intersex cousin to unravel the mysteries of her medical history.
- DirectorRené FéretStarsPhilippe VuilleminValérie StrohVéronique SilverIn 1856, fresh from life with nuns in an orphanage school, Alexina Barbin comes to a coastal village in La Rochelle to teach the village girls. She is deeply religious. She shares the classroom and a bedroom with the young and vivacious Sara, with whom she falls in love. Alexina has another secret: her gender is mysterious. She and Sara begin a scandalous love affair, but Alexina seeks marriage and social acceptance. She discloses her secrets to the village priest, to her mother, to the bishop, and to the bishop's physician. After the church and court rule on her petition, marriage to Sara becomes Alexina's sole purpose and hope.