Directed by Zaïde Bil, Sam Peeters, Heleen Declercq • Documentary • 2023 • 45 minutes
Hanne Gaby Odiele is an international topmodel. At the age of 17, she discovered being intersex while reading a teenage magazine. Only at that moment she understood the surgeries she had during her childhood. Today she uses her topmodel status to stop cosmetic operations on intersex children. Charlotte Adigéry is a Belgian singer and musician with Caribbean roots. On the verge of her great breakthrough, she tries to come to terms with racial trauma. To Charlotte as to Hanne, it seems the world cannot accept them for who they are. How to get rid of those concepts of others, that do not serve us?
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