My Body, My Soul
A look in the mirror often reveals more than we would like to see. Can we accept ourselves as we are? Does the body match the soul? And what if it doesn’t? Only their transition enables Andreas, Amelie, and Patricia a path to self-acceptance.
Cast
- Sandra Höstermann-Schüttler
- Sandra Höstermann-Schüttler
- Patricia Sophie Schüttler
- Patricia Sophie Schüttler
- Andreas Oberndörffer
- Andreas Oberndörffer
- Amelie Jordan
- Amelie Jordan
My Body, My Soul
Clarissa Eysell
- Documentary
- Production Country / Year
- Germany 2023
- Language
- dt. OF m. engl. UT
- Format
- DCP, Color, 88min
1.78:1 (16:9), Discrete 5.1
Nominated for:
Granit – Hofer Dokumentarfilmpreis
Director & Crew
Clarissa Eysell
Born in 1995 in Pforzheim. Worked as a graphic designer. Studied Television Journalism and Documentary Film at the Bavarian Academy for Television and the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Active as a television journalist and director.
Filmography
| 2019 | Normal anders | Kurzdokumentarfilm | |
| 2021 | Social design – schön, sozial und handgemacht | TV-Reportage | |
| 2022 | Schwimmende Städte – wo der Klimawandel zum Umdenken zwingt | TV-Reportage | |
| My body, my soul | Dokumentarfilm | 2023 |
“Filming with the protagonists showed me that it’s not just about the interaction between trans people and doctors, but first and foremost about one’s own self and one’s own body. Accepting oneself is a topic that concerns each and every one of us. In the last two years, I myself had to learn not to condemn my body for pain, because I was diagnosed with an incurable chronic pain disease. For a long time, I cursed my body. But then a doctor once told me, ‘Love yourself as a whole,’ and that changed my attitude. I can only be happy and content if I also accept myself physically as I am and stop fighting it.
The shooting showed me how important it is to balance body and soul. Of course, I can’t begin to understand what it’s like to be trans, and I don’t want to presume to judge or to compare it to my own problems. But I can transfer statements to myself, and that is exactly what makes MY BODY, MY SOUL so valuable. In concrete terms, you see the protagonists dealing with themselves and their medical transition and trying to go their own way.”
Clarissa Eysell
- Music Composer
- Patrick Kuhn Botelho
- Producer
- Jana Klingseisen
- Writer
- Clarissa Eysell
- Sound Designer
- Sebastian Specht
- Sound
- Patrick Friemelt
- Michaela Kobsa-Mark
- Elisabeth Drobny
- Jeremias Brunner
- Executive Producer
- Jana Klingseisen
- Editor
- Manuel Sosnowski
- Director of Photography
- Elisabeth Neugebauer
- Jan Wittkopp
- Christoph Bockisch
