Leitis in Waiting

Leitis in Waiting

Queer Film Club Short Selection, August 2021

Theme: Queer Indigenous Cinema in Honour of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, August 9th

A documentary on the Tonga Leitis, an intrepid group of transgender women fighting a rising tide of religious fundamentalism and intolerance in the South Pacific Kingdom.

Joe Wilson, Dean Hamer & Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, 2018, Tonga
72 minutes

Suggested by Rhys
CW: Deals with transphobia and colonialism
Language: English & Tonga

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