Toby Ashraf in conversation with Uli Decker
About the film:
Little Uli dreams of an adventurous life as a pirate, Indian chief or pope. With her stubborn refusal to submit to the usual role stereotypes, she becomes an outsider even in her own family. Years after her father's death, her mother gave her his "secret" chest as an inheritance. The content: high-heeled shoes, artificial fingernails, make-up, a human hair wig. Suddenly Uli sees her own family, her father, herself and the society in which she grew up with new eyes. A true story about family secrets, gender issues and the tangles of love - told as a tragi-comic rollercoaster ride through animated and documentary imagery.
