Far from the queer communes and feminist festivals of the big city lives a 64-year-old in their parents’ house in the countryside in northern Sweden. Between poems and sawing machines, we follow Mats/Maria and their thoughts about growing up transgender in a place without room for difference.
Mats/Maria is of 0 hour(s) and 13 minute(s). It is Produced By: . It was released on 2020-01-25.
Genres: Documentary
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