A father and mother are faced with the painful task of washing their deceased transgender daughter, but when no one agrees to wash her, how far is the father willing to go to make sure his "son" is washed?
Acting
Kamel El Basha's simmering desperation, barely contained.
Direction
Alyaseer stretches 11 minutes into unbearable eternity.
Writing
Every word costs something. No fat, all marrow.
Director
Ahmad Alyaseer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Islamic washing rituals (ghusl) strictly gender-segregate; the film exposes how this erases intersex and trans people even in death.
Jordanian filmmaker Alyaseer shot this following real cases where trans women were buried as men against their wishes.
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