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| Directed by | Lucía Puenzo |
| Written by | Lucía Puenzo |
| Based on | Cinismo by Sergio Bizzio |
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| Cinematography | Natasha Braier |
| Edited by | Alex Zito |
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Running time | 91 minutes[1] |
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| Language | Spanish |
| Box office | $2,728,869[2] |
XXY is a 2007 Argentine drama film written and directed by Lucía Puenzo and starring Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Inés Efron and Martín Piroyansky. Based on the short story Cinismo (Cynicism), included in the book Chicos (Boys) by author Sergio Bizzio, the film tells the story of a 15-year-old intersex person, the way her family copes with her condition and the ultimate decision that she must eventually make as she struggles to define her own gender identity within a society that expects certain behaviors from every individual.
XXY received positive reviews from critics, winning the Critics' Week grand prize at the 2007 Cannes film festival, as well as the ACID/CCAS Support Award.[3] It was nominated for eight awards at the 2008 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards, winning three of them including Best Film, and was nominated or won awards at a number of other foreign film festivals. It was chosen to close the 2008 Melbourne Queer Film Festival and had a short run theatrical release before being released onto DVD. The film also won the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film and the Golden Crow Pheasant at the International Film Festival of Kerala.
- ^ "XXY (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 2008-03-18. Retrieved 2013-06-15.
- ^ XXY at Box Office Mojo Retrieved June 15, 2013
- ^ Leffler, Rebecca (May 26, 2007). "Critics Week grand prize to 'XXY'". Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-06-25.