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52 Tuesdays (2013)

52 Tuesdays poster
Directed by
Sophie Hyde
Genre
LGBTQ-related film
Country
Australia
Runtime
1h 49m
Rated
12
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 35 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A teenage girl navigates her mother's gender transition over the course of a year. They meet every Tuesday to maintain their relationship during this personal transformation.

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What happens

52 Tuesdays is a 2013 Australian coming-of-age drama film directed by Sophie Hyde, with the screenplay written by Matthew Cormack and story by Cormack and Hyde. The film centres on a teenage girl dealing with the gender transition of a parent. The film showed at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, where it was not only nominated for the Grand Jury Prize, but won the Best Director Award. Over the following year it won numerous other awards and garnered global critical acclaim. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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