Being Impossible(HKLGFF 2019)

Official Selection: SXSW 2019, Taipei Film Festival 2019, Boston Latino International Film Festival

Ariel is a young pious dressmaker whose first intimate encounter with a boy proves to be an extremely painful experience. She knows there is something odd with her body. After visiting the family doctors she obtains a dubious diagnosis. At night she cares for her dying mother and during the day as a dressmaker she is surrounded by judgmental women; she delves deeper into her past discovering that, indeed, she was born differently and underwent several surgeries as a baby to correct her intersexual body. She slowly begins to find her own self outside gender binaries and tentatively begins a romance with a confident woman.

The film is intercut with intersex individuals relating their experiences.