"If you marry one day, marry a man with a beard," Meral's grandma used to say when Meral was a little girl. Now an adult, Meral doesn't know how to teach her family what an important role beards play in her life.
awards & Festivals
- Audience Award „Made in Germany“, Gay Lesbian Film Festival Hamburg, Germany, 2010
- Lolly Award for Best German Queer Short Film, XPOSED International Queer Short Film Festival Berlin, 2011
- Third Place Audience Award “Goldene Perle”, PERLEN – Queer Film Festival Hannover, 2011
- Shnit Film Festival Cologne, Germany, 2010
- Gay Lesbian Film Festival Hamburg, Germany, 2010
- Brussels Pink Screens Film Festival, Belgium, 2010
- QUEERSICHT lesbian-gay Film Festival Bern, Switzerland, 2010
- Turkish Film Festival Frankfurt, Germany, 2010
- Roze Filmdagen, G & L Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2011
- Torino GLBT Film Festival, Italy, 2011
- International Women’s Film Festival Seoul, South Korea, 2011
- Pink Apple lesbian-gay Film Festival, Zurich, Swizzerland, 2011
- MIX Milan - Cinema GayLesbian & Queer Culture, Milan, Italy, 2011
- identities Queer Film Festival Vienna, Austria, 2011
- XPOSED International Queer Short Film Festival Berlin, 2011
- Philadelphia QFest, USA, 2011
- 4th Moabinale Open Air Shortfilm-Evening, Berlin, Germany, June 2011
- Europride 2011, Rome, Italy, June 2011
- Espressofilm Open Air Film Festival, Vienna, Austria, 2011
- Queer Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011
- Some Prefer Cake, Bologna Lesbian Film Festival, Italy, 2011
- Side by Side LGBT Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia, Oct 2011
- 3. Queer Film Fest, Rostock, Germany, 2011
- International Film Festival Homochrom, Cologne, Germany, 2011
- Barcelona International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Spain, 2011
- Queer Film Festival Hannover, Germany, 2011
- Chéries-Chéris Paris Gay Lesbian Trans Film Festival, France, 2011
- FemFest Wurzburg, Germany, 2011
- Bamberger Kurzfilmtage, Bamberg, Germany, 2012
- Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney, Australia, 2012
- Cinhomo G&L Film Festival, Valladolid, Spain, 2012
- Flying Broom Int. Women’s Festival, Ankara, Turkey, 2012
- Outtakes Reel Queer Festival, Wellington/Auckland, New Zealand, 2012
- International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Andalusia, Sevilla, Spain, 2012
- Eurolesbopride, Marseille, France, 2013
