All About My Father

Director: Even Benestad (NO)
Genre: Documentary
Norway, 2002 / 71 min (35 mm), b/w, colour & sound

The Film
Even Benestad has made a personal documentary about a well-respected medical doctor and transvestite in a small Christian town in Norway. It is directed by the one person most likely to convey his story with warmth, humour and irony—his son. Armed with a small video camera and the family’s Super 8mm films, he sat out to make a personal portrait of his transvestite father.

Even Benestad
Even Benestad studied directing at the Film and Television Academy in Oslo. “All About My Father” is his first longer work, following a number of short films and short documentaries. This film was shown in the Panorama programme of the Berlinale international Filmfestival in Berlin, in 2002.
Even Benestad / All about my Father has received the following awards and nominations:
- FIPRESCI, Int. Film Critic's Award, Gothenburg Film Festival -02.
- TEDDY for best doc, Berlin Int. Film Festival -02.
- SPECIAL DOC. PRIZE, Int. Doc. Film Festival Munich -02.
- GOLDEN AWARD, for best int. doc, HotDocs, Toronto -02.
- THE DOC. AWARD, for best doc, The Norwegian Short Film Festival -02.
- AMANDA AWARD, for best feature film, The Norwegian Int. Film Festival -02.
- AUDIENCE AWARD, Festival of Festivals, Århus –02.
- SECOND PRIZE, for best doc, Valladolid int. Film Festival -02.
- NORDIC COUNCIL'S FILM PRIZE, nominated for best feature -02.
- EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY AWARD, nominated for best doc. -02.
- HONORABLE MENTION, The Church of Sweden –02.
- FILM CRITIC'S AWARD, for best feature film, Oslo -03.

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