Sinopsis
Little Uli wants to become a pirate or the pope, but in no case does she want to fit into the role stereotypes of her Bavarian village. When her father Helmut dies in an accident, her mother hands her his "secret" box, where she finds women’s clothing. She also receives his diaries, and thus uncovers the family secret that Helmut had been a “transvestite” since his youth, who only acted out his inclinations to appear as a woman in other cities.
Uli Decker, born in the Mountains of South Bavaria in Germany, is a writer, camera woman and filmmaker. After having spent a year living with farmers in the Amazon forest of Brazil, she studied Spanish & Portuguese Literature and Theatre & Film Studies at King's College London, Humboldt-Universität Berlin and Universidad Complutense Madrid.
Accompanying her studies she worked as a freelance journalist, actress, assistant director in theaters and film productions and started to make her own films. In order to specialize in documentary filmmaking, she got her Masters Degree in Creative Documentary from Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and her specialization as a Camera Woman from Film Arche Berlin.
Her debut film, Nothing Personal (2009) was nominated for two European Film Academy Awards (2010). It won six awards.
She lives in Berlin and works as a camera woman and filmmaker for video clips and documentaries and founded Ulises films in 2012
Wednesday, November 6th, 19:00
Calle de Zurbarán, 21
Free admission until full capacity is reached
Year of production: 2022
Running time: 1 hour 34 minutes
Country: Germany
Language: German with Spanish subtitles
Director: Uli Decker
Cast: Helmut Decker, Monika Decker, Cordula Decker, Uli Decker, Cora Frost, Irmtraud Karlitschek, Herbert Karlitschek, Inge Schleussinger, Christl Spiegel
Production: Katharina Bergfeld,
Martin Heisler
Screenwriters: Uli Decker,
Rita Bakacs
Cinematography: Siri Klug,Uli Decker
Producing companies:
The film was produced by Flare Film in cooperation with the Kleines Fernsehspiel of the ZDF. The film was supported by the Federal Government's Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM), the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFF), the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) and the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF).
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Selected in ... (Festivals)
Max Ophüls Award Film Festival 2022:[8]
Max Ophüls Award - Best Documentary Film
Max Ophüls Audience Award Documentary Film
International Documentary Filmfestival Thessaloniki 2022: Winner WIFT GR Award (Award for Women in Film and Television)
Achtung Berlin - Berlin New Cinema Awards 2022:
Best Documentary Film
Ecumenical Jury Prize
DOKfest Munich 2022: nominated for the Goethe Institute Prize
Premiere in Madrid
