Man For A Day follows a group of women who take the plunge and sign up for a week-long workshop in Berlin with drag king extraordinaire, Diane Torr. Gender activist Torr’s workshops were legendary and the main focus of Diane’s work was an exploration of the theoretical, artistic as well as the practical aspects of gender identity.

Katarina Peters’ documentary observes a Diane Torr workshop in Berlin when a group of open-minded women come together to discover the secrets of masculinity. What makes a man a man, and a woman a woman? Precisely when and where is gender identity formatted? How much is nature and how much nurture?

Each of Torr’s workshops represented an open-ended laboratory experiment in social behaviour posing the question: is it possible to deliberately play out different roles and create a space in which to transgress both masculine and feminine characteristics? Venturing onto the streets to be a Man For A Day at the end of the ‘gender lab’, the women find that some things in life will never be the same….