The Unconscious

"sexual difference cannot determine sexual desire,
because desire originates in the unconscious and the unconscious knows nothing of sexual difference..."

This film is a journey with men who call themselves kothi. They are men for their families and society, but for themselves they are women, and wives of other "macho" men. They lead a dual life and a few are commercial sex workers. They walk two tightropes, both of fear and disgrace of and for their families and 'husbands'. And yet, they celebrate womanhood in their world of disguises.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Manisha Dwivedi was born in Lucknow in 1969. She has studied Economics and is now at the Film and Television Institute of India studying film direction. The Unconscious was made as a documentary exercise in her second year at the institute.