Am I Sexy?
Film - New German Cinema Filmfest 2004

Am I Sexy?

Directed by Katinka Feistl

Info

Director: Katinka Feistl
Section: New German Cinema
Country: Germany
Year: 2003
PT: Bin ich sexy?
OT: BIN ICH SEXY?
Language: German
Cast: Marie-Luise Schramm, Birge Schade, Johanna Fritz, Ismail Streit, Andreas Schmidt
18+ (no age rating)

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Am I Sexy?

Mareike goes to high school and wants to become a model. With her determination, nothing’s going to get in her way, even if she is a little pleasingly plump. She lives with her single Mom, Jutta, her sister, Franca, and her brother, Tim, in a suburb. Jutta doesn’t make enough at her job as a department store detective to grant Mareike’s wish of going to a modeling school come true and is turned off at first by Mareike’s fixation with her body. Mareike falls for a boy of Arab descent, and, in order to impress him, takes bellydance lessons. Jutta eventually has to admit the dancing has given her daughter a genuine zest for life. But then Mareike’s hair starts falling out as the result of an immune sytem disorder. The teenager’s world falls apart...

Meet the director

Katinka Feistl