Be Like Others (2008)
- Directed by
- Tanaz Eshaghian
- Genre
- documentary film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- Iran, United Kingdom, United States, Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Rating
- 3.7 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
Modern Iran offers sex reassignment surgery but not acceptance of homosexuality. The film follows several transgender young women as they navigate clinics, families and daily life in Tehran.
intimatesoberingthoughtfulobservationalmelancholicquietly intensepersonalunsettlingclinical
What happens
Be Like Others: The Story of Transgendered Young Women Living in Iran (also known as Transsexual in Iran) is a 2008 documentary film written and directed by Tanaz Eshaghian about trans people in Iran. It explores issues of gender and sexual identity while following the personal stories of some of the patients at a Tehran gender reassignment clinic. The film played at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival, winning three awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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