(CHAIR TENDRE)
ABOUT SASHA
Drama | Running Time: 85 minutes
2022 / French
Country: France
Directed by: Yaël Langmann, Jérémy Mainguy
MENA Premiere
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French screenwriter. After studying cultural management, she worked in contemporary art before branching off into cinema. In 2015, she devoted herself entirely to writing. With Yvan Attal, she co-wrote “Le Brio, Mon Chien stupide” (2019) and “Les Choses Humaines” (2021), for which she was nominated for the Césars in 2022. 
French filmmaker. He kicked off his career as an Assistant Director, and is known for “No Limit” (2012), “The Red Band Society” (2017), and “Prof T.” (2016).
Producer
CastAngèle Metzger, Régis N Kissi, Léna Garrel, Andréa Furet, Marin Judas, Paola Locatelli, Grégoire Colin, Daphné Burki, Saül Benchetrit, Lysandre Nury
ScriptwriterYaël Langmann
Sasha (Angele Metzger) is 17 and has recently moved cities with her family starting at a new high school along with her little sister Pauline (Saul Benchetrit). "Don't forget, no one must know," says Pauline as they walk through the school gates. Gradually, what they mustn't know becomes clear: Sasha was born intersex, described as a boy by doctors and subjected to operations to make that accurate, but is now hoping for a fresh start as a girl. It is uncertain ground for everyone, including her engaged, argumentative family – Sasha's mother earnestly consults a transgender friend on how to speak about it – and Sasha herself, who has to negotiate everything from which toilet to use to managing her storehouse of accumulated anger. Winner of the French section at Series Mania, About Sasha gets to grip with an identity so little understood that it's discussed as if it were a disease.