The Regretters

Marcus Lindeen

23 September 2023

Cinema Ideal, Lisboa

Cinema

At centre stage sit Mikael and Orlando. Both men, now well into their 60s, share a common bond—they were men who became women and decided to change back. In this raw and candid tête-à-tête, Mikael and Orlando explore their pasts and trade war stories of their individual journeys through gender reassignment and back again. Mikael, deciding to become a woman later in life, was immediately hit with a wave of regret post-surgery and now longs to feel “whole” again. The flamboyant Orlando, one of Sweden’s first cases of gender reassignment, chooses not to live as a woman anymore, but is comfortable with the fluidity of his somewhat undefined current gender. Regretters offers a rare and penetrating look at a subject seldom talked about.

The film won the Prix Europa for best documentary in Berlin in 2010, the Swedish Academy Award (Guldbagge) for best Swedish documentary 2011 and has, besides been presented at numerous international film festivals, also been screened at The Museum of Modern Art in New York and The National Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow. Regretters also won Best Documentary at Queer Lisboa in 2010.

Sessions

23.09.23

Cinema Ideal, Lisboa

19:30
Direction
Marcus Lindeen
Production
Kristina Åberg
Editing
Marinella Angusti, Kristin Grundström
Cinematography
Erik Persson, Andréas Lennartsson
Music
Martin Willert
Cast
Orlando Fagin, Mikael Johansson
Production
Atmo Media Network AB
Co-production
Swedish Television (SVT), Finnish Television (YLE)
Funding
The Swedish Film Institute, Nordisk Film & TV Fond
Language
In Swedish, with Portuguese subtitles
Bilhetes
5€
4€ (students)