Regretters gives heartfelt voice to two transgendered people who underwent sex change surgery to become women. Now, years later, they would like to return to their original male bodies. Their experiences illuminate the complicated nature of gender identity, showing that the transformation from one gender to another is not accomplished solely by sexual reassignment surgery.

Orlando is an androgynous dandy who had one of Sweden’s first sex change operations in 1967. He tells of his eleven year marriage to a man who never suspected that his wife had not been born female. Mikael underwent surgery in the 1990s at the age of fifty, but has since tried to convince his doctors to change him back, as he feels desperately lost between genders, trapped inside a body that is not his.

Together for the first time, Orlando and Mikael meet on stage and engage in a spontaneous dialogue. Regretters is frank without being sensational and provides important material relevant to any discussion of gender and all of its complexities.

Prix Europa, 2010

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, N.C. 2010

Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival, Toronto, 2010

Silverdocs Film Festival, Washington, D.C. 2010

Inside Out LGBT Film Festival, Toronto, 2010

Western Psychological Association Convention Festival, 2011, Film Festival Winner