XXY

directed by Lucia Puenzo

with Ines Efron, Martin Piroyanski, Ricardo Dar’n, Valeria Bertuccelli

Foreign Film Premieres

This story of a 15-year-old hermaphrodite living as a girl with her parents in a coastal Uruguayan town explores her painful search for gender identity. Matters are complicated when her parents invite a plastic surgeon to visit who brings his teenage son, who is experiencing his own sexual confusion. "The film's most astonishing trait is its openness and lack of judgment as it tackles this difficult, emotional topic." (Toronto Film Festival) more at filmmovement.com. 35mm

2008, color, 1 hour 26 minutes, Argentina / France / Spain