Little Uli wants to become a pirate or the pope, but in no way does she want to fit into the role stereotypes of her Bavarian village. After her father dies, her mother hands her his "secret" box as an inheritance. The contents suddenly change her view of her father, herself, her family and the society in which she grew up. A true story about family secrets, gender roles and a childhood in the Bavarian province - told as a tragic-comic rollercoaster ride through animated and documentary images.
With: Monika Decker, Cordula Decker, Helmut Decker, Uli Decker, Irmtraud Karlitschek, Herbert Karlitschek, Christl Spiegel, Inge Schleußinger and special appearance by Cora Frost.
Festivals/Awards
2022 International Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis, Germany – Jury Award Best Documentary & Audience Award Best Documentary Achtung Berlin Festival, Germany, Jury Award Best Documentary & Award of the Ecumenical Jury International Documentary Film Festival Thessaloniki, Greece - WIFT Award: Women in Film and TV Dok.Fest München, Germany - Nominated for the Goethe Insitut Award DOKKA, Karlsruhe, Germany - Opening Movie Filmkunstwochen München, Germany Festival des Neuen Heimatfilms, Freistadt, Austria - Honorary Mention Documentary Competition Fünf Seen Filmfestival, Germany Queerfilmfestival Nürnberg, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Köln, Wien, München, Berlin, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Fürstenwalde, Halle, Leipzig RIFF, Reykjavik, Iceland Filmtage Oberschwaben, Ravensburg, Germany Queer Streifen, Regensburg, Germany Pride Pictures Karlsruhe, Germany - Audience Award Best Queer Movie Perlen Filmfestival Hannover, Germany - Audience Award Best Queer Movie Porn Film Festival Berlin, Germany Film Festival Radstadt, Austria - Audience Award Best Documentary Queer Sicht, Bern, Switzerland Mix Brasil - Queer Film Festival São Paulo, Brasil - Prémio Ida Feldmann Kasseler Dok Fest, Germany Dialogues - Calcutta International LGBTQIA+ Film and Video Festival, India Festival Internacional de Documentales Buenos Aires - FIDBA, Argentina - Jury Award Best International Documentary Duhok International Film Festival, Iraq
2023 shortlisted #lola23 – Deutscher Filmpreis Dokumentarfilm Best Documentary 2022 by Readers of epd Film nominated German Documentary Award Bavarian Film Award
Cast and Crew
Director Uli Decker
Producer Katharina Bergfeld, Martin Heisler
Screenwriter Uli Decker, Rita Bakacs
Director of Photography Siri Klug, Uli Decker
Editor Amparo Mejías, Frank Johannes Müller
Sound Philip Hutter, Ludwig Fiedler, Jannik Flieger, Silvio Reichenbach
