JAKE – dir. Francisco Paco Carrascosa

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Original Film Title: JAKE

Director’s Name: Francisco Paco Carrascosa

Writer’s Name: Francisco Paco Carrascosa

Producer: Francisco Paco Carrascosa

Country of Origin: Switzerland

Country of Filming : United States, Switzerland

Language: English, French, German, Swiss German

Runtime: 1 hour 56 minutes

Film Description:

JAKE: A 16-year-old Appenzell (Switzerland) girl from a good family gives birth to a child after a language study trip to New York. The father: African-American, unknown. The child is immediately given up for adoption by the mother’s family. She is given the name Jacqueline and grows up in a rural, conservative, strictly Catholic environment. At the age of eight, she realizes that she was born into the wrong body. Jacqueline now knows that she is a boy. Three years later, the teenager discards the hated girl’s name and henceforth calls herself Jeremy. He embarks on a long journey of identity search and transformation, characterized by inner turmoil, drama and conflict.

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