All About My Father
2002 Norwegian film
- Even Benestad
- August B. Hanssen
- Bjørn Eivind Aarskog
- Ola K. Hunnes
- Gloria Azalde
- Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad
- Elsa Almås
- Elisabeth Skaflem Benestad
- Even Benestad
- Erik Andersson
- Anders Refsn
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Exposed Film Productions
Release date
- 22 February 2002 (2002-02-22) (Norway)
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All About My Father (Norwegian: Alt om min far) is a 2002 Norwegian biographical documentary film written and directed by Even Benestad. All About My Father is a personal documentary about the director's parent, the famous sexologist and trans person Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad, who lives in the southern Norwegian city of Grimstad.
The film won the Teddy Award for best documentary at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival, the Critics' Award at the 2002 Gothenburg Film Festival, and the Documentary Award at The Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad. It also won the 2002 Amanda Award for Best Film (Norwegian). The film was well received by critics, getting five out of six points from reviewers in Aftenposten, Dagbladet, Verdens Gang and the NRK radio show Filmpolitiet.[1]
Internationally, the film was shown in several film festivals.[2]
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Teddy Award winners for Best LGBT Documentary Film
- Rights and Reactions: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial (1988)
- Tiny & Ruby: Hell Divin' Women (1989)
- Tongues Untied (1990)
- Paris Is Burning (1991)
- Voices from the Front (1992)
- Silverlake Life (1993)
- Coming Out Under Fire (1994)
- Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter (1995)
- The Celluloid Closet (1996)
- Murder and Murder (1997)
- The Brandon Teena Story (1998)
- The Man Who Drove with Mandela (1999)
- Paragraph 175 (2000)
- Trembling Before G-d (2001)
- All About My Father (2002)
- Talk Straight: The World of Rural Queers (2003)
- The Nomi Song (2004)
- Feline Masquerade (2005)
- Beyond Hatred (2006)
- A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007)
- Football Under Cover (2008)
- Fig Trees (2009)
- The Mouth of the Wolf (2010)
- The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2011)
- Call Me Kuchu (2012)
- Bambi (2013)
- The Circle (2014)
- The New Man (2015)
- Kiki (2016)
- Small Talk (2017)
- Tranny Fag (2018)
- Lemebel (2019)
- If It Were Love (2020)
- Alis (2022)
- Orlando, My Political Biography (2023)
- Teaches of Peaches (2024)
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