Documentary Academy: A Lecture and Discussion After the Screening of the Film “It’s Always Been Me”


Friday, 10 May | 11:00 a.m. | Kino Muza 1

Documentary Academy: Lecture and Discussion (approx. 45 min.)

after the screening of the film “It’s Always Been Me”, dir. Julie Bezzera Madsen

Suggested age group: 14+

Teachers who bring their classes to the festival educational screenings will receive special educational materials to work on the film at school. The cost of a group ticket is PLN 14 per student. Payment will be collected at the cinema box office before the screening. You can sign up your class for as many screenings as you wish by sending an online application form: https://forms.office.com/e/PxJGgQJZZ8.

About the film: Max was born as a girl but just came out as a transgender boy. Bastian is born as a boy but most of the time he feels he is a girl. Max and Bastian struggle with their bodies as they develop, feeling it is not going in the right direction.

Expert: AGNIESZKA PIXIE FRĄCZEK – Gestalt psychotherapist, and activist. She specialises in therapeutic and developmental work with LGBTQIA+ people of different ages. As a therapist, she is associated with the Stonewall Group Association in Poznań, where she runs support groups and individual consultations. She is certified as a therapist by the London Pink Therapy School, which has been training people working therapeutically within gender, sexual and relational diversity for many years. She is also an HV/AIDS awareness counsellor.