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Venus (2017)

Venus poster
Directed by
Eisha Marjara
Genre
comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 35m
Rated
6
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

An Indo-Canadian woman who is starting to come out as transgender finds out that she has a teenage son from a past relationship. She now has to navigate her new identity and role as a parent.

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What happens

Venus is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Eisha Marjara and released in 2017. The film stars Debargo Sanyal as Sid, an Indo-Canadian who is just beginning to come out as a transgender woman when she unexpectedly discovers that she has a teenage son (Jamie Mayers) with a former high school girlfriend. The cast also includes Zena Darawalla, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Amber Goldfarb and Gordon Warnecke. The film premiered on the film festival circuit in 2017, before going into general theatrical release in 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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