Be like Others
Please note that the 3 minutes trailer will be followed by the discussion.
Original title: Transexuel en Iran
Original language: French
Running time: 73’
Country: France
Genre: Documentary / Society
Year of production: 2008
Director: Tanaz Eshaghian
Submitted by: FRANCE 5
Produced by: Zadig Productions
Total budget in Euro: € 260.000,-
Presenter: Thibaut de Corday
Shopsteward: Liana Saleh
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, a country with strict social morals and traditional values, sex-change operations are legal. Over twenty years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa making sex change permissible for “diagnosed transsexuals“. Yet homosexuality is still punishable by death.
