The Rib (Director’s Cut)
New York Asian Film Festival 2023
July 14 - 30, 2023
This breakthrough film, about a 32-year-old man trying to undergo reassignment surgery, illustrates the intense stigma and obstacles that the LGBT community must face in China, offering an inside look at both the marginalized and those who condemn them.
Q&A with Zhang Wei
32-year-old designer Huanyu knows he is a woman born as a man and has a support system of transgender friends, doctors, and his straight best friend/roommate. However, sex reassignment surgery legally requires parental approval and Huanyu’s pious Christian father views it as a deadly sin. This breakthrough film illustrates the intense stigma and obstacles that the LGBTQ+ community must face in China, offering an inside look at both the marginalized and those who condemn them. Striking black-and-white cinematography with an occasional glimmer of color underlines both the authenticity and hypocrisy portrayed in this stinging real-life drama.
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