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5.7
/10
117 Ratings

THEY

Directed by Anahita Ghazvinizadeh
United States, Qatar, 2017
Drama

Synopsis

Fourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun “They” and lives with their parents in the suburbs of Chicago. J is exploring their gender identity while taking hormone blockers to postpone puberty. After two years of medication and therapy, J has to make a decision whether or not to transition.

Synopsis

Fourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun “They” and lives with their parents in the suburbs of Chicago. J is exploring their gender identity while taking hormone blockers to postpone puberty. After two years of medication and therapy, J has to make a decision whether or not to transition.

Our take

A tender portrait of identities in flux, Anahita Ghazvinizadeh’s coming-of-age debut parallels adolescent blues with the doubts of adulthood. Compassionately charting the emotionally-charged journey of gender transition, the film captures how the path to self-actualization is rarely a straight line.