Transpapa (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.

Released Nov. 22, 2012 90 min 13+

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Keywords: tmdb.woman-director, imdb.absent-mother, imdb.mother-daughter-relationship, imdb.transgender, imdb.transgender-woman, imdb.transgender-parent, imdb.coming-of-age + 4 more, tmdb.teenage-girl, tmdb.lgbt, tmdb.lgbt-parenting, tmdb.transgender