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Aged women talk about their rebirth - a sex operation in Casablanca - and about their exuberant and at times tragic lives.
‘Can every man become a beautiful woman?’, filmmaker Michiel van Erp asks the aged April, a gorgeous woman who used to be a man. She is one of the flamboyant protagonists in this documentary about transsexuals who in the mid 20th century underwent a sex operation. For this surgery, highly controversial at the time, they went to Casablanca, where they were helped by the unorthodox surgeon Burou. The different women - from Germany, England, Belgium and the Netherlands - talk about their experiences in those days, their admiration of Burou and their exuberant and at times tragic lives, often illustrated by photographs and other archive material. They are also followed travelling to friends, guiding young transsexuals and on a pilgrimage to Casablanca, where they were reborn.

Credits

Set geluid
Sound editing
Production company
De Familie Film & TV
TV company
VPRO TV
Distributor NL
Cinema Delicatessen

Title: I Am a Woman Now
Year: 2012
Duration : 1 hour, 26 minutes
Category: Long Documentary
Edition: NFF 2012

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