What if your whole life is a play? Almost ten years after her grandfather's death, director Anne Vaandrager finds out that he was a gay man in a heterosexual marriage and died of AIDS. Using interviews, archive material, and fictional scenes, she attempts to reshape her family history. In this way, she unravels a family story that is about shame, the inability to talk to each other, and her own identity.
Eelco Smits
Nazmiye Oral
Diron Sterk
Anne Vaandrager
Teije Rijnhart
What if your whole life is a play? Almost ten years after her grandfather's death, director Anne Vaandrager finds out that he was a gay man in a heterosexual marriage and died of AIDS. Using interviews, archive material, and fictional scenes, she attempts to reshape her family history. In this way, she unravels a family story that is about shame, the inability to talk to each other, and her own identity.
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