I AM A GIRL! - Cineffable 2011

Susan KOENEN

Documentary filmmaker Susan Koenen is born 10 March 1974 in The Hague, The Netherlands. She is intrigued by people who can be a role model to others, in a social sense. That's why she filmed the Dutch Elena Simons, a young woman that's working on very original solutions to make this world into a fairy tale (Elena in Wonderland - 2005), and the remarkably strong girl Laura, who is only 14 years old when she looses her best friend Anne to leukemia (Laura & Anne 4 ever – 2008 - Cinekid Kinderkast Audience Award 2009). Another strikingly strong child is Joppe in I Am a Girl! (her 9th film), a 13-year old, who was born a boy but knows for sure that she should have been a girl. In 2010, her film The Wild West ended up at a shared 15th position in the IDFA Audience Award Top 50.

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October 29 to November 2, 2011

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Partners 2011