Julia

A tale of passion, humiliation and loneliness, of desperation and turmoil.

What exactly would drive a young male art student to leave his home in Klaipeda, Lithuania, and reappear as a young woman selling her body on the streets of Berlin, in sweaty back rooms, and on the sticky seats of a sex cinema?

For over ten years the photographer and filmmaker J. Jackie Baier has accompanied and documented the socially unconventional life of the now 30-year-old transsexual Julia K. — streetwalker, outlaw and nonconformist.

Julia speaks an archaic form of German that hasn't been used in Germany since the early 19^th century. She paints watercolors "for relaxation", as she says. She was at the top of her high-school class and is a graduate of the art school of Klaipeda — and now, in Berlin, she is a transsexual streetwalker who sometimes can't find her way home.

AWARDS:

2014 Jury Prize for Best Documentary, Queer Lisboa - Festival Internacional de Cinema Queer