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by Bruce LaBruce

Germany/Canada 2014, b/w 56 min. HD

Production: Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion, Bruce LaBruce Production

Cast: Susanne Sachsse, Paulina Bachmann, Boris Lisowski, Mehdi Berkouki, Krishna Kumar Krishnan

A trans man lost in a world of desire, symbols, and fantasies

In this newly refashioned version of a classic love story, Schönberg’s music and Giraud’s poetry provide the dramatic framework for the tale of Pierrot: A young woman that regularly dresses as a man falls in love and seduces a young girl that has no clue that her lover has the same sex. When the girl introduces her boyfriend* to her father, he becomes skeptical and unmasks the fraud. Even though, strangely, the feelings of the girl persist without shifting, the father does not allow them to ever see each other again. Furious and delusional the man* develops an adventurous plan to prove his* true ‘masculinity’ to the father of his* lover.

Festivals:

World Premiere: Berlinale Forum Expanded 2014

IndieLisboa FF 2014

Goethe Institut Porto Alegre 2014

Distral FF 2014

Asterisco 2014

Mix Milano FF 2014

Moscow IFF 2014

Edinburgh IFF 2014

Era New Horizons FF 2014

Karlovy Vary IFF 2014

Out On Screen 2014

L’Étrange FF 2014

Queer Lisboa 2014

MICGénero FF 2014

Rio IFF 2014

Pornfilmfestival Berlin 2014

Molodist IFF 2014

Sitges IFFF 2014

Florence Queer FF 2014

Ravenna Nightmare FF 2014

MIX NYC 2014

Equality Festival 2014

Zinegoak FF 2015

Przeglad Piosenki Aktorskiej FF 2015

MoMA 2015

Rome Independent FF 2015

Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul 2015

Rio Gay FF 2015

Kreives Vilnius LGBT FF 2015

Llamale H IFF 2015

Feminist and Queer IFF 2015

Award:

Special Jury Award at Teddy Awards 2014