Movie
XXY
Overview
Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue to a head. As Alex faces a final decision regarding her gender, she meets both hostility and compassion.
Details
- Release date
- 2007-06-14
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Pyramide Films, Historias Cinematográficas, Wanda Visión, Ministerio de Cultura, Cinéfondation, Fonds Sud Cinéma, Cine Argentino, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales
- Country
- Argentina, Spain, France
- Original language
- ES
Cast
- Inés Efrón as Alex
- Martín Piroyansky as Álvaro
- Ricardo Darín as Kraken
- Valeria Bertuccelli as Suli
- Germán Palacios as Ramiro
- Carolina Peleritti as Erika
- Guillermo Angelelli as Juan
- César Troncoso as Washington
- Jean Pierre Reguerraz as Esteban
- Ailín Salas as Roberta
- Luciano Nóbile as Vando
- Lucas Escariz as Saul
Crew
- Lucía Puenzo - Director
- Lucía Puenzo - Screenplay
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