Transpapa
22/11/2012
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.
Movie Information
Luisa Sappelt
as Maren
Devid Striesow
as Sophia
Sandra Borgmann
as Ulrike
Horst Sachtleben
as Wolfgang
Florence Kasumba
as Tessi
Fritzi Haberlandt
as Silke
Arno Kempf
as Volker
Henriette Nagel
as Zora
