( Als Ich Ein Junge War, War Ich Ein Madchen )
Ivana Todorovic
2013 - 30 min - Couleur - Serbie
Goca is a transvestite in Belgrade, the capital city of a country where organising or participating in a gay pride parade is forbidden. She is raising a daughter who is actually her niece. Although her eighteen-year-old boyfriend steals the money she risks life and limb to earn as a sex worker, Goca still loves him and manages to retain her sunny, open-minded nature. On her thirty-ninth birthday she decides to celebrate her coming-out on stage in front of a live audience. And so she tells them the story of her life: "When I was a boy, I was a girl."
Author-Director : Ivana Todorovic
Photography : Ivana Todorovic
Sound : Danijel Daka Milosevic
Editing : Jelena Maksimovic
Original Music : Drasko Adzic
Delegate Producer : Akademski Filmski Centar – Dom kulture
Distinctions
2015 - Festival International du Film des Droits de l'Homme (FIFDH), Paris (France) : Courts-métrages documentaires2013 - Festival international du film de Berlin - Berlinale, Berlin (Allemagne) : Compétition courts métrages