GEN_. 2025. France/Switzerland/Italy. Directed by Gianluca Matarrese. New York premiere. In Italian, English; English subtitles. 104 min.
At a Milanese public hospital for gender transition and infertility assistance, one of the few of its kind in Italy, Dr. Maurizio Bini presides over a team of medical professionals who provide humane, ethically responsible care in brave defiance of a conservative government and a profiteering pharmaceutical industry. Filmmaker Gianluca Matarrese makes all-too-human the abstractions of in-vitro fertilization and gender-affirming therapies as the women and men who pass through Dr. Bini’s clinic, seen at their most vulnerable and resilient, seek the fullness of life in their wish to have a child or realize their true identity.