Director Elhum Shakerifar
Country/Production UK
Release 2006
Length 17 mins
Format Colour / DVD / PAL / All region
Location Iran / Middle East /USA / America
Language English/Persian (English sub)
Collection Goldsmiths, University of London
Order No RAI-200.4004
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This film is an exploration of transsexuality in the Islamic setting of Iran. The film follows 22 year old Bardia, a female-to-male transsexual, now living in America, who war previously known as Roya, when he was a girl, and as Omid, when he dressed up as a boy. His testimony of sex change contrasts with those of Handry, Lila and Donya, male to female transsexuals still living in Iran and enduring the difficulties of losing the rights they enjoyed as men, and embodying their new roles as women, an inferior sex.
