DocFest: The Secret of Me
October 22, 2025
A shocking medical discovery turns a college student’s life upside-down in this gripping film from the team behind Three Identical Strangers.
Subject Jim Ambrose scheduled to attend.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Baton Rouge, Louisiana—1995. During a feminist studies class, college student Kristi opens her textbook to discover something that turns her world upside down. For as long as she can remember, Kristi has felt different—now she knows why. Demanding her medical records, Kristi is confronted with the devastating truth: she has been lied to all her life by those she trusted the most. What begins as a personal reckoning eventually exposes something much bigger: a far-reaching medical scandal that ensnared thousands of unwitting participants in a now-discredited psychological experiment that falsely claimed gender can be imposed on children at birth. Combining archival materials, firsthand testimony, and expert insights from the widely misunderstood intersex community, director Grace Hughes-Hallett (producer of Three identical Strangers [SIFF 2018]) deftly lays bare the details of this shocking medical scandal, creating a fascinating exploration of consent, identity, and resilience that never sensationalizes its participants.
- Director: Grace Hughes-Hallett
- Principal Cast: Jim Ambrose
- Country: United Kingdom
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 97 min.
- Producer: Flora Stewart, James Rogan
- Cinematographers: Julian Schwanitz
- Editors: Esther Gimenez Sanchez
- Music: Scott Twynholm
- Awards: OUTshine LGBTQ+ Film Festival (Jury Award: Best Documentary Film)
- Filmography: Debut Feature Film
- Language: English
- International Sales: Dogwoof