JULIA

„An all too human story of passion, abasement, self-discovery and rage directed at the whole world. What exactly makes a boy leave home and his country, Lithuania, to wind up dressed in women´s clothes on the streets of Berlin, selling his own body for money? For over ten years photographer and filmmaker J. Jackie Baier spent her days and nights alongside the transsexual Julia K., filming the life and thought of a self-appointed outlaw and guerrilla fighter in the war of life. A film that can´t be pigeonholed, the unfiltered vision of a raw, extreme reality, Julia marks a milestone in reality cinema, with the camera no longer a simple eye-witness but an accomplice or first-hand observer of a person whose identity defies all labels.“

Venice Days / Giornate degli Autori – News – The Programme (August 2013)

After more than 30 screenings in international film festivals JULIA won 1 special mention and 5 awards as Best Documentary.
JULIA was released in German theaters in January, 2015.