Eleven-year-old Emma has a perfectly normal family until the day she learns that her dad, Thomas, is transgender. As Thomas transitions to Agnete, both father and daughter struggle to maintain their relationship, while accepting that everything they have known is changing. A sensitive debut by director Malou Reymann, based loosely on her own experience as a child, the film includes impactful home movies and wonderful performances especially by Kaya Toft Loholt who plays Emma.
Winner–Big Screen Award - Rotterdam International Film Festival
“A Perfectly Normal Family is an engagingly sincere picture of good people trying to negotiate barely charted territory to the best of their abilities.”–Jay Weissberg, Variety
In collaboration with ReelQ Film Festival.
Available for viewing November 12-22 in PA, WV, and OH only.
Watch the trailer:
- Year2020
- Runtime97 minutes
- LanguageDanish
- CountryDenmark
- PremierePittsburgh
- DirectorMalou Reymann
Eleven-year-old Emma has a perfectly normal family until the day she learns that her dad, Thomas, is transgender. As Thomas transitions to Agnete, both father and daughter struggle to maintain their relationship, while accepting that everything they have known is changing. A sensitive debut by director Malou Reymann, based loosely on her own experience as a child, the film includes impactful home movies and wonderful performances especially by Kaya Toft Loholt who plays Emma.
Winner–Big Screen Award - Rotterdam International Film Festival
“A Perfectly Normal Family is an engagingly sincere picture of good people trying to negotiate barely charted territory to the best of their abilities.”–Jay Weissberg, Variety
In collaboration with ReelQ Film Festival.
Available for viewing November 12-22 in PA, WV, and OH only.
Watch the trailer:
- Year2020
- Runtime97 minutes
- LanguageDanish
- CountryDenmark
- PremierePittsburgh
- DirectorMalou Reymann