Iran in reel life; Toronto's documentary festival focuses on Iranian filmmakers
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=9899734/17/2008
"Excerpt: McDonald says it will be a shame if the Iranian filmmakers
don't make it to the festival to attend screenings of their eight
moving documentaries, including Be Like Others, a film about the
transgendered community in Iran.
"Despite the fact, or perhaps because of the fact, that homosexuality
is punished by death in Iran, they have one of the highest per capita
rates of transsexualism in the world, and the film follows a number of
people who are transgendering, which is, oddly enough, sanctioned by
the government," McDonald says."
