PL | 2010 | colour | 75 min
reż|dir Sławomir Grünberg pro|pro Jerzy Dzięgielewski, Aleksander Kutela, Anna Skonieczna, HBO Polska sce|Sc Sławomir Grünberg zdj|ph Sławomir Grünberg muz|mus Philip Glass mon|ed Katka Reszke ob|cast Anna Grodzka, Bartek, Mała Ania, Greta, Stanisław Balaun, Izabela J. Barry dys|dis HBO Polska

The film is about Anna Grodzka, a transsexual, president of “Transfuzja Foudation”, and about one of the most important moments in her life: a legal gender change. Anna Grodzka was born in a male body, and tried to live like this for many years. A man, that was her until 2009, got married, became a father. Nevertheless he couldn’t fully enjoy life. As a mature man, father of a grown up son, he decided to start the long process of gender change. The crew accompanies Anna in important moments of her way to femininity – in the court, in clinic in Bangkok, where she was operated, but also in common moments: while talking with her son, shopping, at work. Anna is surrounded by people, who help her to survive this difficult process.

DIRECTOR | Sławomir Grünberg (1951)
Independent artist, creating films concerning social, identity, political and ecological issues. Producer, director and cameraman of documentaries. Graduated from Łódź Film School. He emigrated to United States in 1981. Since than Sławomir Grünberg directed and produced over 40 television documentaries. His film School Prayer: A Community at War premiered in 1999 in PBS, has been awarded with Emmy. In 2004 Sławomir Grünberg received DreamCatcher Award during the Hope and Dreams Film Festival for his sacrifice and engagement in creating documentaries. He was also a recipient of Guggehheim New York Foundation for the Arts i Soros Justice Fellowships.