From Luca Puenzo (The Fish Child) comes the highly acclaimed XXY, an intimate coming-of-age portrayal of a teenager torn between the love of her parents, her own personal desires, and the daunting, inevitable path into adulthood. Starring Ines Efron (Glue, The Headless Woman, The Fish Child) and winner of the Best New Director Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival, XXY has drawn comparisons to Celine Sciamma’s Tomboy, Julia Solomonoff’s The Last Summer of La Boyita and Alain Berliner’s Ma Vie En Rose.
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Drama from first-time Argentinian director Lucia Puenzo. Alex (Ines Efron) is a 15-year old hermaphrodite who's more female than male. Her family have moved to a relatively uninhabited, remote island in an effort to keep her out of trouble, but when the first boy who takes a liking to her discovers her secret, he ends up with a broken nose. Then, to the disquiet of her embarrassed parents, she quits the medication that keeps her mostly female. At her wit's end, Alex's mother Suli (Valeria Bertuccelli) invites old family friend, plastic surgeon Ramiro (German Palacios) and his teenage son Alvaro (Martin Piroyanski) to spend a weekend on the island to talk about the 'normalisation' operation that would define Alex forever as either girl or boy. As the adults wrestle with the dilemmas that will arise when Alex reaches adulthood, Alex and Alvaro begin to develop strong feelings for each other...
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