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Magdaleena(2020)
Status: Released
Date: 2020-01-31
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As a patient, a captive in her own inner life, Magdaleena succesfully resists her psychiatrist. The confrontation, filmed in split screen, is less an actual case study than a metaphorical story, based on the filmmaker's personal experience of being looked at as the 'other' because they lives and performs outside the binary gender norm.
Languages: English.
Countries:
Canada,
Finland
ProductionCompanies: 
Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperation
Movie: Magdaleena
Top 3 Billed Cast
Aksa Korttila
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As a patient, a captive in her own inner life, Magdaleena succesfully resists her psychiatrist. The confrontation, filmed in split screen, is less an actual case study than a metaphorical story, based on the filmmaker's personal experience of being looked at as the 'other' because they lives and performs outside the binary gender norm.
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2020-01-31
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