Nature's humor / directed by Mohammad Reza Arab.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Arab, Mohammad Reza., Director.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

Persian

Subjects (All):

Trans people--Iran.

Trans people.

Transgender people--Iran.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (67 min.).

Other Title:

Original title: Shokhi tabiat

Place of Publication:

Honolulu, HI : Asia Pacific Films, 2009.

Language Note:

In Farsi, western (Persian).

Original language in Farsi, western (Persian).

Summary:

Director Mojtaba Mirtahmasb writes: "Trans-sexuality is a sexual identity disorder that is not regarded as an illness in our culture and people consider such individuals as having sexual perversion. Transsexuals are always mocked and rejected by their family and society." Stereotypes, misunderstandings, distinctions and the pain of being the wrong gender in the eyes of their Iranian families and society are original discussed by men and women, boys and girls interviewed in this intimate, honest documentary. Poignant descriptions of being outcast and scorned move the transsexuals' original discussion about identity toward the pointedly personal. They discuss God and the anger that some of them feel over the way they were made. A mother talks of her pain in having a son who wants 'the surgery' to change sex organs. How they live as sex workers to survive, their love lives, their agony over cutting ties with family, there is not much that is off-limits in the frank talk. Their complaints, suffering and pain cast a universal shadow over transsexual life and the challenges faced by those all over the world who feel they were given the wrong body.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Aug. 6, 2013).

OCLC:

865004572