Transpapa (2012)
Fifteen-year-old Maren wants to get away – far away. Aside from all the boys thinking she’s frigid, her recently love-struck mother is driving her round the twist. But she also has a father who she hasn’t seen for years. When Maren decides to get in touch with him, her mother finally spills the beans: He now goes by the name of Sophia and lives as a woman – just what she needs! Irrespective of her vexation, Maren risks a meeting and finds in Sophia a person just as hormonal and puerile as herself – a person who would actually prefer to be her best friend, at best even her mother. Can Maren accept that this life makes her father happy? TRANSPAPA is a compassionate and funny story of gender role-breaking, tolerance and the search for identity.
Director: Sarah-Judith Mettke
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Luisa Sappelt as Maren |
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Devid Striesow as Sophia |
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Sandra Borgmann as Ulrike |
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Horst Sachtleben as Wolfgang |
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Florence Kasumba as Tessi |
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Fritzi Haberlandt as Silke |
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Arno Kempf as Volker |
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Henriette Nagel as Zora |
| Writing | Sarah-Judith Mettke | Writer |
| Directing | Sarah-Judith Mettke | Director |
