Information and additional media about ‘The Birthday (2006)’.

The Column Film produced documentary The Birthday from Iranian filmmaker Negin Kianfar & Dutch filmmaker Daisy Mohr exploring Iran’s surprisingly liberal policies regarding trans sexuality, has completed its successful 2007 festival run with several prizes:

Best International Feature Documentary – 2008 Jacksonville Film Festival.

Best documentary on human rights. Docusur, Tenerife.

Special Mention of the jury DOCSDF 2007. DocsDF, Mexico city.

The Showtime Vanguard Award. Newfest, New York.

Honorable Mention from the Jury. Documenta festival, Madrid.

Photo by: Jeroen Oerlemans

Synopsis

A young man is followed in the process of becoming a woman through a sex-change operation in Iran, up to and beyond his operation.

We meet his boyfriend, other transsexuals (among them, a woman becoming a man), doctors, an Islam specialist and his family. All of them are religious, all of them are changing lives, but why would a ‘free’ man choose to become a woman with restrictions and lead a veiled life from now on?

A portrait of schizophrenic lives in a schizophrenic society.

Credits

Year: 2006
 Running Time: 65 min.
 Language Farsi

Directed by: Negin Kianfar & Daisy Mohr
 Producer: Gijs van de Westelaken
 Co-Producer: IKON – Margje de Koning
 Camera: Behnam Monadizadeh
 Edited by: Ewoud Hendriksen
 Music by: Rainer Hensel

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