Anima - My Father’s Dresses
How much are we prepared to give up of ourselves in order to fit in? And how long can this masquerade succeed? FATHER is a true story - told as a tragi-comic rollercoaster ride through a universe of animated and filmed image.
Uli Decker
Director
Also Directed by Uli Decker
A documentary essay about a text that penetrates lives and lives that penetrate a text. In September 2015 teatro GRIOT - a theatre company based in Lisbon, whose actors are mostly Afro-descendants - started to rehearse Shakespeare's "The Tempest" with acclaimed director Bruno Bravo in a little coastal village. Starting with the first rehearsals the film explores Shakespeare's text and the actors' biographies, between the play and the landscape and brings up topics such as memories, home, emigration and colonialism. A complex mosaic of multiple voices.
Kelly is a Brazilian transgender person who found refuge in an Italian holiday village. While pursuing her childhood dream of becoming a singer and performer, she survives on prostitution and dreams of finding the love of her life with the help of Afro-Brazilian rituals. The film is a psychological portrait of a complex and contradictory person who reflects human hopes and dreams in an excessive way.
