XXY [videorecording] / Film Movement presents ; a film by Lucia Puenzo ; producers, Luis Puenzo, Jose María Morales ; productor asociado, Pyramide Productions ; Historias Cintematográficas en coproducción con Wanda Vision ; une coproducción Argentina Española.
Public performance. Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Germán Palacios, Carolina Pelleritti, Martín Piroyansky, Inés Efron. Based on the story "Cinismo" by Sergio Bizzio. This month's short film : The Pick-up artist (13 min. ; director, Steffen Weinert, in German with English subtitles). Special features: Biographies, XXY theatrical trailer.
Summary:
The dramatic story of a 15-year-old hermaphrodite, born with what the doctors call 'ambiguous genitalia,' whose parents moved from Buenos Aires to an isolated cabin outside of Piriápolis, Uruguay, to protect their child from prejudice.
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