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Regretters gives heartfelt voice to two transgendered people who underwent sex change surgery to become women. Now, years later, they would like to return to their original, masculine selves. Through their experiences we learn how very complicated gender identity is; morphing from one gender to anot...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lindeen, Marcus
Format: Video
Language:Swedish
English
Language Notes:Swedish, subtitles in English.
Published: New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2010.
Series:Filmakers library online.
Subjects:
Regret.
Transsexuals > Identity.
Transsexuals > Sweden > Interviews.
Transsexuels > Identité.
Transsexuels > Suède > Entretiens.
Regret
Transsexuals
Transsexuals > Identity
Sweden
Documentary.
Streaming videos.
documentary film.
Nonfiction films
Documentary films
Interviews
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Regretters gives heartfelt voice to two transgendered people who underwent sex change surgery to become women. Now, years later, they would like to return to their original, masculine selves. Through their experiences we learn how very complicated gender identity is; morphing from one gender to another is not accomplished solely by sexual reassignment surgery. Orlando and Mikael are Swedish, now in their sixties. Meeting for the first time, they face one another on a stage and engage in a spontaneous dialogue. Orlando, an androgynous dandy dressed in a red velvet suit, had one of the first sex change operations in Sweden in 1967. He tells of his eleven year marriage to a man who never suspected that his wife had not been born female. Mikael, dressed as a man, underwent the surgery in the 1990's when he was fifty years old. He has tried to convince his doctors to change him back, as he feels desperately lost between genders, trapped inside a body that is not his. Regretters is frank without being sensational. It will be important material for any discussion of gender.
Physical Description:1 online resource (60 min.)
Audience:For College; Adult audiences.
Awards:Western Psychological Association Convention Festival, 2011, Film Festival Winner
Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival, Toronto, 2010
Inside Out LGBT Film Festival, Toronto, 2010
Prix Europa, 2010; Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, N.C. 2010
Silverdocs Film Festival, Washington, D.C. 2010
Production Credits:Cinematography, Erik Persson, Andreas Lennartsson ; editing, Marinella Angusti, Krsitin Grundström ; music, Martin Willert.