Director's Note

Making a film about transsexuals and their problems in Iran was a difficult task. And it became something of a challenge as I could see myself more as a fighter than a filmmaker. But at the same time I had to be vigilant to not falling into the trap of political slogans of the day. I had to be able to show the multi dimensional and fluctuant aspects of my society and its phenomena. I especially wanted to demonstrate the society's position towards transsexuals.
My task became much more complicated, especially, for the fact that Iran has a profoundly traditional culture.
In this film, I tried to remove the frontier between documentary and fiction cinema. I wanted to create some kind of suspense between real and non-real and with this in mind, to emphasize on the flowing aspects of sex and sexuality, or in other words, to emphasize on our identity.
Further, the most important issue for me was to throw away the unnecessary elements and to emphasize on the essentials; this approach was not only seen in the content of the film but also in its formal aspect and its unity as a whole.
khastegi (Sex My Life) is not a film about freaks or abnormal people with transsexual tag on their foreheads. It's a film about our identity in its most comprehensive sense of the word. (Bahman Motamedian)