Adjustment

The nine-year-old Shahrokh, assigned male at birth, wants her family and friends to recognize her as a girl and to adjust to this new identity.

Directed by Mehrdad Hasani
Produced by Hasan Mohammadi

Director’s Bio: Mehrdad Hassani is a writer and director, sculptor and a photographer who is from Rafsanjan. He participated in feature film making as a director’s consultant and costume and set designer. Hassani successfully completed the directing courses of Mr. Asghar Farhadi and the acting courses of Mr. Hamid Samandarian. He is also a graduate of Bachelor of Art Studies from Sooreh University of Tehran. He has made five fiction short films as a filmmaker so far, which has received more than 85 appearances and 25 international awards.

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The Kids Are Alright: Trans and Nonbinary Asian Childhood

While many countries and communities are starting to embrace transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming (TGNC) people, stigma remains in some places. Around the globe, TGNC people are being attacked by anti-trans legislation. Certain US states ban gender-affirming care; others prevent gender or name changes. Some countries put trans people in jail or worse. In the US, the supporters of anti-trans laws say they want to protect children while ignoring the trans youth they’re hurting. They say children don’t and can’t identify as TGNC because they’re too young. These shorts feature trans youth from the US, South Korea, and Iran coming to terms with their identities and finding their community, proving anyone at any age can be trans.