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Riddhi Sen won a National Award for his performance as a transwoman who goes through several hardships in this tragic Bengali film by Kaushik Ganguly.
This English biographical film chronicles the life of artist Lili Elbe, one of the first-known people in history to undergo gender-affirming surgery and her romantic relationship with Gerda Wegener.
Probably one of the first Hindi films to have a mainstream actress play a transgender character in the lead role, it is also one of the few rom-coms in Bollywood that showed an LGBTQIA+ relationship.
This Kannada film is based on the real-life story of trans and Dalit rights activist Living Smile Vidya, and the late actor Sanchari Vijay won a national award for his performance.
A Golden Globe award winner, this Belgian film follows the story of a child's struggles with their identity and the family and society's struggle with acceptance of reality.
This Pakistani film caused a lot of controversy but also received a lot of appreciation for its brave love story of a transgender person in a patriarchal society. It is also the first Pakistani film to feature a transgender person in a lead role.
Vijay Sethupathi sensitively portrayed a transwoman's struggles in a beautiful parent-child story in this Tamil hyperlink film by Thiagarajan Kumararaja.
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