Israeli film embraces transgender teen, stunned parents
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/68920/israeli-film-embraces-transgender-teen-stunned-parents/6/20/13
by michael fox, j. correspondent
Doron Eran's empathetic and touching drama "Melting Away" may be the first Israeli feature film about parents coming to terms with a transgendered child. It begins with a poignant confession.
"No one tells you what it means to be a good mother — if it's being the mother my son wants me to be, or the mother I think he needs," a 40-something woman sadly confides to us, before we realize that she is speaking to, of all people, a private detective.
Between their conversation and a succinct, effective flashback, we learn that Galya and her self-made, my-way-or-the-highway husband, Shlomo, locked their teenage son Assaf out of the house four years ago when they discovered his stash of women's clothing.
