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“BUTTERFLIES IN BERLIN- DIARY of a SOUL SPLIT IN TWO”, written, directed and designed by Monica Manganelli.

Genre: historical dramatic docu-animated film (30′ minutes).
Status: completed (2019). Italy-Germany coproduction: A LATTEPLUS BERLIN FILM PRODUCTION + ALEXANDRA CINEMATOGRAFICA SRL, in collaboration with RAI CINEMA, with the support of BKM/German Federal Ministry of Culture and Media, EMILIA ROMAGNA Film Commission and MIBACT-Italian Ministry of Culture and Cinema. Now available in distribution on AmazonPrimeVideo&HereTV for North America.

Techniques: mix of 2D animation, motion graphics 3D, cut out computer animation, old photos, collage/pastiche, mattepaint-concept art. Each shot is conceived as a painting, as an hommage and citation of some artists/painters.

Synopsis: For the first time in cinema a story about Holocaust and gender identity together. Alex moves to Berlin in 1933, during the Weimar Republic period. Looking for his place in the world and his sexual identity, he becomes the first out-of-surgery transsexual in History. That happens unfortunately during the National-Socialism rise, a social disruption that turned the capital of sexual freedom in the most repressed country of all times.