Nurik is a simple laborer who works as a mover during the day and drives a taxi in his spare time. In the past, he was addicted to gambling, but thanks to his wife, he managed to quit. One day, his friends start mocking him, and difficult life circumstances push him back to the card table. Playing in secret from his wife, Nurik begins to earn good money, buys an apartment, a car, and it seems like life is finally looking up. However, his luck doesn’t last long, as a professional player from Turkey named Kemal arrives in the city.
This Transgender Day of Remembrance, let us take a look at six films about transgender children grappling with their identity in a heteronormative world that despises their kind and tries its best to invalidate their feelings.
“Trust your gut" is one of the most common pieces of advice you’ll receive during your lifetime. And as a person inclined to trust my intuition above all else, it’s the most common advice I find myself giving in real life and in my online socialising. But what happens when your gut is trying to warn you that something is seriously wrong without you being able to identify what triggered it in the first place? How can you act on a feeling or make it go away when you don’t have a clue about what could be wrong? How can you trust your intuition when you don’t know what makes it act out in the first place?
Written and directed by Eva Victor, who also plays Agnes, the main character, Sorry, Baby is slow and artsy, but extremely effective. It shows how the trauma developed after a sexual assault has a ripple effect and loudly echoes in the victim and her life for years after.
Unfortunately, People We Meet on Vacation didn’t hold up quite as well as I’d hoped.
It’s 2021 and what few LGBTQ+ films that are produced by major film studios continue to star cisgender heterosexual actors, rather than actual LGBTQ+ people.
