Gender Trouble

In this lyrical and moving documentary, four intersex women tell their stories with bravery and candour. Set against beautiful yet unsettling backgrounds of organically transforming family photographs, orchids and topiary gardens, Melissa, Mary, Barbara and Sara give unmediated accounts of their hermaphrodism and the secrecy surrounding their conditions and lives.

These aren't rare conditions – more than one in every 2000 people are born with some sort of intersex condition, but you would never know it. Most intersex people live in secrecy and silence, but is society really so unable to accept difference?

A sensitive meditation on gender and society.

"I actually find hermaphrodite to be a rather poetic word. I would like it to be reclaimed because it does have a hint of freakishness to it and I don't think we need to think of these conditions as being freakish." Sara