May 2024
EVERY BODY
Director: Julie Cohen
CAST: Song Kang-ho,Gang Dong-won,Lee Ji-eun,Bae Doona
FILM INFO: 92 minutes, USA, 2023, Cert CLUB
Showing: 8.45pm Weds 1 May 2024
Language: English
Every Body is a revelatory exploration of the lives of intersex people. The film tells the stories of three individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy, and non consensual surgeries to thriving adulthoods after each decided to set aside medical advice to keep their bodies a secret and instead came out as their authentic selves. Actor and screenwriter River Gallo , political consultant Alicia Roth Weigel, and Ph.D. student Sean Saifa Wall are now leaders in a fast growing global movement advocating for greater understanding of the intersex community and an end to unnecessary surgeries. Woven into the story is a stranger than fiction case of medical abuse, featuring exclusive footage from the NBC
News archives, which helps explain the modern day treatment of intersex people.