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Big hall
Gender Youth Programme
WASKRACHT!
1999, Netherlands, 2 min. short animation
Mister Waskracht explains the meaning of transsexuality to a little girl.
JUST CALL ME KADE
Sam Zolten, USA 2001, 26 min, documentary, video, in English with Dutch subtitles
Articulate and insightful, Kade is a 14-year-old who knows who he is and what he wants to be. This remarkable story about a transgendered youth includes inspirational testimonies from Kade’s family and friends who, throughout his transition, demonstrate a surprising degree of understanding and positive support.
DE DAG DAT IK BESLOOT NINA TE ZIJN
The Day I Decided to be Nina (De dag dat ik besloot Nina te zijn)
Ingeborg Janssen, The Netherlands 2000, 15 min, documentary, video, in Dutch with English subtitles.
Guido is an 11-year old boy who doesn't like being a boy. He abhors soccer and prefers to play with dolls and chat and giggle with the girls in his class. After all, he would really rather be a girl. We see Guido, who calls himself Nina, as he prepares to go to a birthday party of a girlfriend. It’s the first time he’ll go to a party dressed up as a girl and his friends don’t mind at all. Sometimes one of the girls mistakenly calls him Guido but that’s not worth a big fuss. Eventually she will simply get used to calling him Nina.
XX TO XY: FIGHTING TO BE JAKE
Emily Atef, Germany 2002, 20 min, documentary, video, English, Dutch subtitles
Where Just Call Me Kade stops, this short documentary takes over. Like Kade, Jake was born female but felt since his early childhood there had been a genetic mistake: he was a boy. Nowadays Jake looks like a man. He’s even grown a beard. Now he asks himself how he could find a girlfriend who will accept him as he is.
XX to XY is an intimate portrait (using interviews, music and animations) about a person’s courage to stand up against society and the medical system, about his fears and his fight to change his gender, in order to become the man he has always thought he should have been born as.
Director Emily Atef and Jake Yearsly will be present at the screening for Q&A.
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