Julia is a young transgender woman who left her home country of Lithuania. Now living in Germany, she walks the streets of Berlin, working as a prostitute to survive. This documentary revisits Julia over a ten-year period of her life.
Direction
Baier's patient, non-exploitative gaze builds devastating trust.
Editing
Ten years compressed into 89 minutes of lived-in intimacy.
Director
Johanna Jackie Baier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the rare documentaries centering a trans Eastern European sex worker without poverty porn sensationalism — radical for 2013 Berlin queer cinema.
Julia's Lithuanian identity matters: post-Soviet migrants in Berlin's Tiergarten sex work scene faced compounded marginalization that German-born trans women often didn't.
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