Samira
- Director: Nicola Mai
- Writer: Nicola Mai
- Producer: Isabelle Arvers; Nicola Mai
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Samira is a 28 minutes two-screen art-science installation presenting an ethnographic account of the life history of Karim, an Algerian migrant man selling sex as a travesti at night in Marseille. Karim left Algeria as a young man as his breasts started developing as a result of taking hormones. He was granted asylum in France as a transgender woman, Samira. Twenty years later, as his father is dying and he is about to become the head of the family Samira surgically removes her breasts and marries a woman in order to get a new passport allowing him to return to Algeria to assume his new role.
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Samira EN from Nicola Mai on Vimeo.
Cast & Characters
Karl Sarafidis as Karim;
Emmanuel Girard-Reydet as OFPRA Case Worker;
Nicola Mai as Anthropologist;
Marion Thierry-Mieg as Doctor