“Included in the lineup of films at this year’s Palm Springs International Film Festival is Desire Lines. Desire Lines, directed by Jules Rosskam, is a revolutionary declaration of following one’s authentic desire for present-day transmasc folks in this intimate doc-fiction hybrid film.
Ahmad (Aden Hakimi) Doing Research In The Archive
Ahmad, an Iranian American transgender man named Ahmad (Aden Hakimi), explores his gay desires as he travels back and forth in time from a queer archive in the present with Kieran (played by Theo Germaine from Showtime’s Work in Progress). The queer archive is filled with photos and accounts of transmasc transgender people who discovered that they prefer sex with cis men, especially cis gay men. In other words, being a transmale but still having a vagina leaves one with the question: “Can a vagina be masculine?…”
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