Australian filmmaker Jordan Bryon has been living and working as a journalist and filmmaker in Afghanistan for more than | dG1fbTBWRFBQOFRISVk
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:03 If the Talibs knew,
00:05 [FOREIGN]
00:07 It's absolutely possible that they would kill me.
00:10 [MUSIC]
00:14 Teddy and I are spending a lot of time with this Taliban unit.
00:18 >> He matter.
00:19 >> And as we get drawn deeper into their world,
00:22 there are things about ourselves that I have to be very careful not to reveal.
00:29 >> I think I am the first person to have their testosterone injection in
00:33 a meeting room.
00:34 [LAUGH]
00:36 >> For most of my life, I've been caught between identities.
00:40 >> I'm asking a question for myself.
00:42 How much of that gender is influenced by society?
00:46 >> I feel more comfortable with the Taliban in Afghanistan than I do in
00:51 a queer bar in Sydney.
00:52 Cuz in Australia, I've got this label on my forehead with these Talibs on,
00:56 I'm just a man.
00:57 [FOREIGN]
01:02 [MUSIC]
01:06 >> My nerves are shot.
01:08 There are too many interwoven threads.
01:12 [MUSIC]
01:13 Afghanistan is falling to pieces and everybody is trying to leave.
01:17 Are they going door to door?
01:19 >> [FOREIGN]
01:20 >> Teddy has so much to be stressed about.
01:23 >> This is the first time that I didn't trust you.
01:26 >> He has to bond with the very people that destroyed his country.
01:29 So he has all this and covering for me to worry about.
01:33 [MUSIC]
01:35 >> You don't know anything.
01:36 As far as you understand, I'm a man.
01:39 Promise me.
01:40 >> [FOREIGN]
01:41 [MUSIC]
01:46 >> Every time one of them gets a phone call, my heart skips a beat.
01:49 [MUSIC]
01:50 I will come back and we will both leave together.
01:53 >> We don't have anywhere to go.
01:55 >> You trust me, right?
01:56 [MUSIC]