Zuhurs Töchter (Zuhur’s Daughters)

Film program, DE 2021, 89 min., dt./arab. OV + engl. UT

By: Laurentia Genske & Robin Humboldt

(FSK 12)

We are happy to welcome director Robin Humboldt and protagonists Lohan and Samar at the Pornfilmfestival.

Life in a refugee shelter is often hard, but transsexual siblings Lohan and Samar seize the opportunity that their new life in Germany offers them to finally live the way they are. Their parents, religious Kurdish Syrians, had more traditional ambitions for their two sons, the eldest of their children. But all the two teenagers want is to finally live as women. The filmmakers follow them for several years, in which they are living their trans identities and are taking the slow and complicated path towards gender confirmation, made even more difficult by the language barrier. Even though they are struggling to understand Lohan and Samar’s transition, the parents are nevertheless fully behind their children.

Molly Shanker

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