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Colourful documentary portrait of a married truck driver who wants a sex change. What does this mean for the marriage and family relationships? And how will people react in their Frisian community?
In the early 1980s, tough trucker Harm marries the shy country girl Siepie. Thirty years later, Harm tells her he wants to become a woman. This is hard to swallow for Siepie. Not just because she will lose her husband, but also because she fears the gossip in their small Frisian community. And how will people react in Harm’s male-dominated worlds of dirt tracking and truck driving? Moving, light-hearted film, largely carried by the protagonists’ tenacity, humour and rural down-to-earthness.

Credits

Executive producer
Production company
Hollandse Helden
TV company
BNNVARA

Title: Mevrouw Faber
Year: 2019
Duration : 57 minutes
Category: Short Documentary
Edition: NFF 2019

MaatschappijGenderGezondheid

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