3xFTM
North American Premiere 
Documentary | South Korea | 2008 | 115 minutes
Director: Kim II Rhan
Language: Korean + English subtitles
Produced by Collective For Sexual Minority Cultures pinks
This is a story of 3 Korean FTMs (Female Toward Male) who struggle to have their true lives.
Synopsis
This documentary portrays the diversity within FTM transgenders in South Korea through the experiences and life of three FTMs. Each individual has different processes of identification and diverse reasons why he wants to be an FTM, or has no other choice but to undergo FTM surgery: ‘H’ has always wanted to be a man with physical power and tough behaviour from his childhood; ‘K’ has been always confused with who he is, ever uncomfortable with and unfit for any gender role and only recently found 
who he has been since learning about transgender; finally, ‘J’, who met a girlfriend at a lesbian community, decided to be a man for a better career and to satisfy his girlfriend’s demands.
This documentary also tries to encourage each of them to affirm their sexuality over the binarism of gender which is clearly divided into male and female. For non-transgendered individuals, it can be an opportunity to discover and expand their own perceptions of diverse sexuality.
Selected Awards
2008 Official Selection Seoul Independent Film Festival
Women Make Waves Film Festival (Taiwan)
Pusan Int’l Film Festival
Seoul Int’l Women’s Film Festival
The Filmmaker
Il-RHAN KIM (Director)
Born in Seoul in 1972, Kim completed her study in the department of Film Theory at the graduate school of Advanced Imaging, Science, Multimedia and Film of Chung-Ang University, and has been working at ’pinks, Collective for Sexual Minority Cultures’. She co-directed Mamasang: Remember Me This Way in 2005. 3xFTM is her second film.
