Instructions for Survival

by Yana Ugrekhelidze
  • 2021 Yana Ugrekhelidze
  • 2021 Yana Ugrekhelidze
  • 2021 Yana Ugrekhelidze
  • 2021 Yana Ugrekhelidze
  • 2021 Yana Ugrekhelidze

    Synopsis

    The film is about love story of one couple Alexandre and Marie. Alexandre is a transgender and lives with his girlfriend Marie. Because of his trans identity and mark 'female' in passport, Alexander has to lead a secret life. Such people  like him are threatened with persecution and death in his homeland.
    In order to escape this hopeless situation, Marie decides to make a surrogacy. With this money, the couple wants to flee to Europe and finally live in freedom.
    With the time their pragmatical plan wrecks, because Alexandre and Marie fell in love with the child in Mari's belly.

    Festivals

    2021
    71 Berlinale PANORAMA
    36 DOK.fest Munich
    Inside Out LGBT Film Festival