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202639 minGdocumentary

Dressing Up Together

202639 minGdocumentary

Elly travels from Berlin to Michigan to meet her grandfather Dixie, revealing contrasting views on queerness shaped by their email exchanges since 2015.

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Lilli Strakerjahn,

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Elly travels from Berlin to Michigan to meet her grandfather Dixie, revealing contrasting views on queerness shaped by their email exchanges since 2015.

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Elly Jarvisdirector

Lilli Strakerjahndirector

Célia Caroubidirector

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Elly travels from Berlin to Michigan to visit her grandfather Dixie. Their long-standing email correspondence, begun after their respective queer coming-outs in 2015, finally takes shape in person, revealing mismatched expectations: Dixie associates queerness with physical connection, while Elly does not.

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