XXY

Year: 2007

Director: Lucía Puenzo

Actors: Inés Efron, Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Germán Palacios, Carolina Pelleritti, Martín Piroyansky, Guillermo Angelelli

Language: Spanish

Brief Summary: Alex (Efron) is a 15-year-old intersex person living in the secrecy of a lonely house by the sea in Uruguay. She is constantly changing schools and longs to be ridden of her tedious life. Her father, Néstor Kraken (Darín), is a marine biologist with a book on sexuality published who lives off fishermen who handle him wounded animals. Her mother, Suli (Bertuccelli), secretly invites a renowned surgeon to her house along with his wife and estranged son (Piroyansky), Álvaro. Alex and Álvaro soon become engaged in a hopeless relationship through which they must decide on their sexuality.

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