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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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Trailer for "Tales of the Waria" a feature-length documentary about a community of transgender women who search for love and romance in Indonesia the ...
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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Mami Ria reminisces about the
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Suharni adjusts to life in Bali.
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