Trans Allegories in Film: 'Your Name' (2016)
Our protagonists perform as the opposite gender while still preserving the parts of their personalities that makes themselves who they are.

A clever parrot becomes the sole witness to a violent murder and may hold the answers when it mimics the victim's final words.
Our protagonists perform as the opposite gender while still preserving the parts of their personalities that makes themselves who they are.
Behind all the action, 'Space Sweepers' is a surprisingly heartfelt and progressive story about building community.
The quiet ache of guilt sitting at the dinner table, the silence after a truth is buried, and the way pain is passed down like a name.
The Franke kids seemingly lived a normal life, until their mom met the infamous Jodi Hilderbrandt.
One of the reasons I love watching movies is that, much like books, they serve as windows into other times and different places. Productions from around the world offer valuable insights into the history and culture of their respective countries. And just like literature, cinema can help us understand the present by showing us the past.
I came across Urchin by chance and decided to watch it because of the title. It made me think of the spiky animal that lives at the bottom of the ocean, and the old Dickensian novels, where an urchin was an orphaned, homeless child in shaggy and dirty clothes.