All About my Father

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All About my Father

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All About my Father

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All About my Father

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All About my Father

Film Info

Norway | 75 min. Director: Even Benestad

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Project / Host

European Film Awards

All About my Father

Synopsis

All about my father is a personal documentary about a well-respected doctor and transvestite in a small religious town, directed by the one person most likely to convey his story with warmth, humor and irony: his son. Armed with a small video camera, and with the use of old nostalgic S8mm and 16mm archive family footage, he set out to make a film about his transvestite father.

Cast & Crew

Director

Even Benestad
Producer

Bjørn Eivind Aarskog
Screenwriter

Even Benestad, August B. Hanssen
Director of photography

Bjørn Eivind Aarskog
Main Cast

Espen Benestad, Elsa Almås, Elisabeth Benestad, Even Benestad
Editor (Cut)

Erik Andersson
Original Score

John Erik Kaada

Director's comment

Contrary to my father 's idea that this film will promote him as a colourful and different person who uses all his time and effort to combat the cultural bureaucracy, I wish to make a deeply personal portrait where the father-son problem area is considerate, and where the amount of harm one person's self-realisation can have on others is established. Dad's transvestism forms the Basis of the film, and is a recurring theme that will guide us through a somewhat different family saga.
I have made this film on my own terms. lt is important to show that my family is not unique - there are many families like mine, and by making this film I hope others can see their families in perspective. In order to do this, I could not compromise - confrontation was both pertinent and meaningful to make this a genuine film.