Cinema of Disobedience: Julia

Original title: Julia

88 Min. | DE | 2013

Language: OmU, OmeU | Original language: german

Director: J.Jackie Baier

“I can’t say I’m a woman, but I’m not a man either. I am something… – a creature of God, but a crooked creature of God. God didn’t pay attention when I was born.”

That’s what Julia says about herself. She never accepted authorities other than this God who was wrong.
For more than ten years, photographer and filmmaker J. Jackie Baier accompanied trans* woman Julia through her life as a sex worker, outlaw and non-conformist. Julia comes from Lithuania and speaks an archaic German that has not been used in this country since the early 19th century. She graduated from art school in Klaipéda and earns her living as a whore on the streets of Berlin and in dingy sex cinemas.

An authentic portrait of an extraordinary woman.