Orchids: My Intersex Adventure

"Daughter. Sister. Wife. Hermaphrodite."

Jun 25 2011 N/A 0h 56m
Documentary

Along the roads of Australia travels a small film crew headed by filmmaker Phoebe Hart, who is determined to turn this on-the-road trip into a journey of self-discovery. Her hermaphroditism played a painful and significant role in her past: she has had to deal with it from her adolescence on, but now this conflict has happily been solved. Even her relationship with her parents was damaged by her condition: in her opinion they were to blame for having forced her to undergo a traumatic operation to remove her internal testicles. Along the road, she will connect with other intersex people, ready to open up to her about their common condition. Will Phoebe succeed in openly confronting her mother, who is reluctant to be interviewed, and to talk about an issue that is so important for her? Will she find the answers she is looking for? A journey of self-discovery that is difficult, but at the same time light, ironic and detached.

Plot

Documentary filmmaker, Phoebe Hart, comes clean on her journey of self-discovery to embrace her future and reconcile the past shame and family secrecy surrounding her intersex condition. Despite her mother's outright refusal to be in the film, Phoebe decides she must push on with her quest to resolve her life story and connect with other intersex people on camera. With the help of her sister Bonnie and support from her husband James, she hits the open road....

Written by

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Directed by

Phoebe Hart

Cast

Phoebe Hart, Bonnie Hart, James Davidson

Crew

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Production Countries

Australia

Production Companies

hartflicker Moving Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

2 wins & 2 nominations

Trailers
Orchids: My Intersex Adventure | OFFICIAL TRAILER | A Film by Phoebe Hart
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