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Minorities relegated to fringes of gay world take centre stage at film fest, writes Robert McKay
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The first is XXY, a film by director Lucía Puenzo, chosen to represent Argentina at last year’s Oscars, in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
It’s the story of Suli, played by Valeria Bertuccelli, a troubled teenager who is suspended from school when she punches her best friend in the nose. When an old family friend who just happened to be a plastic surgeon arrives with his wife and teenage son Alvaro in tow, ostensibly for a social call, the source of the girl’s suffering is revealed. Suli, it transpires was born intersex, exhibiting the sexual characteristics of both male and female.