Fandor, the leading curated subscription streaming service today announced a mid-June spotlight on trans films, entitled Breaking Binary. Kicking off June 19, the films include narratives and documentaries by such esteemed filmmakers as Monika Treut, Doris Wishman, Xavier Dolan and even non-LGBTQ legend Ernst Lubitsch, films that challenge misconceptions and shine a light on the transgender experience. With the many facets of the transgender experience making news on a regular basis and with advances in LGBTQ rights making front page news almost every day, the time seems right to explore the varied and wondered world of transgendered cinema.
With honest and inspiring representations of how fluid gender can be, these films are as interesting and complex as the lives represented and will challenge the way you think.
Launching on Fandor June 19 is Xavier Dolan’s award-winning 2012 film, Laurence Anyways. The film won two awards at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, including the Queer Palm and centers around Laurence who tells his girlfriend Fred that he wants to become a woman. In spite of the odds, in spite of each other, they confront the prejudices of their friends, ignore the council of their families and brave the phobias of the society they offend. For ten years, they try to live through this transition, and embark on an epic journey, which, unbeknownst to them, may cost Fred and Laurence themselves and each other.
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