NL. Joppe is een mooi meisje van 13 jaar. Ze heeft een oogje op Brian. Maar wat Brian nog niet weet, is dat ze eigenlijk een jongen is.
EN. Every 13-year-old girl dreams of that nice, but hard-to-get, boy. And Joppe is no different, consulting her friend on how to ask Brian out. But just how should she tell him that she was born a boy? From a very early age, Joppe - then still called Jop - liked to wear dresses and wigs and play with Barbie dolls. Jop also preferred to be addressed as a "she" rather than a "he." Halfway through the last year of elementary school, she decided to ask her classmates to consider her a girl from then on. "It really isn't a huge problem", she says. "It doesn't dominate your life, although you are confronted by it every day." Nevertheless, this brave teenager won't let anything stop her. With a striking amount of self-confidence, Joppe explains how puberty blockers and female hormones work and how she copes with her emotions.
Winner of the Jury Award for Best Short Documentary at the Los Angeles Film Festival, USA 2011.
Director: Susan Koenen.
Netherlands, 2010.
Language: Dutch.
Subtitles: English.
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