Film: Benim Çocuğum / My Child - Rotterdam

My Child will be screened in Rotterdam at Lantaren Venster.

My Child tells the story of five homes in Turkey. Parents talks about raising their lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans children. Denial, trauma, despair, shame, acceptance, and rebirth are common themes. A mother talks about her anxiety that her child will come to harm; while another remembers the first bras she bought for her transsexual child. “Is it given by God?” a grandmother asks, ready to accept God’s word. They have accepted their children for who they are, and now share their experiences with the public, radically redefining what it means to be activists in this conservative, homophobic, and trans-phobic society.

My Child takes its power from the love these parents feel for their children, telling us in intimate words the touching story of a most courageous form of resistance against homophobia and transphobia.