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Trailer for "Tales of the Waria" a feature-length documentary about transgender women searching for love and romance in Indonesia.
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TALES OF THE WARIA
While many in the Western world view Islam as socially repressive in Indonesia the world's largest Muslim country exists a community of biological men who ...
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Tiara shows a group of lovely warias how to work the catwalk.
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Suharni adjusts to life in Bali.
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