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Paradise Bent: Boys Will Be Girls in Samoa (1999) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1999 · 51 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Heather Croall
- Starring
- Tom Pollard, Derek Freeman, Jeanette Mageo, Tania Grey
The documentary explores the Samoan fa'afafine—biological males raised as women who occupy a traditional cultural niche. Historically they performed women’s work, yet today many adopt Western fashions and appear similar to drag queens. Anthropologists weigh in, discussing the cultural, gender and sexual‑identity complexities that the fa'afafine embody.
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