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The Two Lives of Li Ermao

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Jia Yuchuan, China 2019, 90 Min., OV with English subs, DCP

In this documentary film that stretches over almost two decades, Li Ermao’s life of love, desire, vulnerability and perseverance is portrayed on screen in an intimate and heartbreaking way. The film unfolds Li Ermao’s life as a transgender rural migrant worker, in which she lives in the borderlands, constantly surviving between the urban and the rural, love and loss, “man” and “woman”.