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English Titles G

Girl hearted

Original title: Mädchenseele
German title: Mädchenseele
Germany, 2016, 38 min.

Director: Anne Scheschonk
Production company:
Anne Scheschonk
Streiberstraße 8
D-06110 Halle (Saale)
Germany
www.annescheschonk.com

Age recommendation: 14 years and up
Film genre: Documentary

Synopsis:
It’s quite plain to 7 year old Nori: She is a girl, because she has a girl’s heart. But her body is that of a boy …
Five years ago: Each and every day mother and son argue about what appears trivial: the colours of pants and shirts suddenly matter, soon all he agrees to wear are skirts and dresses, he likes to put barrettes in his still short hair. The neighbours start gossiping. Then one day, the boy reveals his favourite dream to his mum. A wizard will turn his penis into a vagina so he could be a “real” girl … It’s that day something comes to an end. It’s that day Josephin realises that she doesn’t have a son, that he had never existed – but that there is still a kid, a daughter. It becomes clear to her that she will have to break new ground to see her daughter grow up happily.
The documentary GIRL-HEARTED portrays young Nori and her mother’s conflict of enabling her daughter a life worth living out of the norm. A film about being a girl.

Comments:
The documentary GIRL-HEARTED portrays young Nori and her mother’s conflict of enabling her daughter a life worth living out of the norm. A film about being a girl.

Marketing strategies:
FILM FESTIVAL AGENCY
Markus Kaatsch
aug&ohr medien
Riemannstr. 21
10961 Berlin, Germany
+49 (0) 176 - 62965299
markus@augohr.de
www.augohr.de

Festivals:
2nd RAPIDLION SOUTH AFRICAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 2018
6th SOCIAL IMPACT MEDIA AWARDS 2018, Los Angeles, 2018 (awarded)
21st FULL FRAME DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL, NC, 2018
19th CROSSROADS FILM FESTIVAL, 2018 (HONORABLE MENTION)
3rd CHEAP CUTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL, London, 2018
30th BFI FLARE: LONDON LGBT FILM FESTIVAL 2017
13th LEEDS QUEER FILM FESTIVAL 2017
ATHENS INT'L FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL 2017
10th THIN LINE FEST Denton 2017
13th ACHTUNG BERLIN – NEW BERLIN FILM AWARD 2017
TRANSGENDER FILM FESTIVAL KIEL 2017
12th MONACO CHARITY FILM FESTIVAL 2017 2017
8th FREDERICK FILM FESTIVAL MARYLAND 2017
2nd CIUDAD DE MÉXICO INT'L FILM FESTIVAL 2017
SPARKLE WEEKEND - SPARKLE THE NATIONAL TRANSGENDER CHARITY 2017
3rd MONTEVIDEO WORLD FILM FESTIVAL, 2017 (awarded)
14th INDY FILM FEST 2017, 2017 (awarded)
41th OPEN AIR FILMFEST WEITERSTADT, 2017
3rd FOOTCANDLE FILM FESTIVAL North Carolina, 2017 (awarded)
2nd FICIT - FESTIVAL DE CINE INDEPENDENT DE TRUJILLO, 2017
8th OAXACA FILM FEST, 2017 (awarded)
24th QUEERFILMFESTIVAL BREMEN, 2017
15th TALLGRASS FILM FESTIVAL 2017
21st PERLEN - QUEER FILM FESTIVAL HANNOVER, 2017
3rd BANGKOK THAI INT'L FILM FESTIVAL, 2017
10th CINE MOVILH - FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE LÉSBICO, GAY, BISEXUAL Y TRANSEXUAL, 2017
31st BRAUNSCHWEIG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 2017
20th QUEERSICHT FILM FESTIVAL, 2017
2nd CUCIF - CUZCO UNDERGROUND CINEMA FESTIVAL, 2017
9th FRONTDOC - INT'L DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL, 2017 (awarded)
14th VERZIO INT'L HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL, Hungary, 2017
NORTH CAROLINA FILM AWARD, 2017
9th FESTIVAL INT'L DE CINE GLBT - SANTO DOMINGO OUTFEST 2017, 2017

Website: http://augohr.de/catalogue/madchenseele

Video: Trailer

MÄDCHENSEELE (GIRL-HEARTED) - Excerpt from marc boehlhoff on Vimeo.