Our production mySELFie celebrates its worldwide premiere at the 62nd edition of the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film on October 29th, 2019 at 7:15 p.m. in the Wintergarten of the Passage Kinos.

With great joy we announce that the DOK Leipzig has selected the film by director Anne Scheschonk. Since 2017 we have been working on the documentary film about the girl Maya, who has been living with Alopecia Areata (spot baldness) since she was 12 years old. However, it is not primarily about her illness, the documentary film rather shows a special perspective on growing up in today's world. Markus Kloth's cinematography observes sensitively, comes close to the girls without being voyeuristic. mySELFie is a documentary film that observes the levels of self-perception and external perception on which Maya and her friends move. A coming-of-age film that portrays Maya's individual destiny and the confrontation of a generation with itself.

This year's DOK Leipzig will take place from 28th of October to 3rd of November in various cinemas in Leipzig. In addition to the Premiere on the 29th of October at 7:15 p.m. mySELFie will also run on the following dates:

Cinestar 2, 30.10.2019, 9 a.m.

Schauburg, 31.10.2019, 5 p.m.

Cinestar 4, 01.11.2019, 10 a.m.

The film was funded by the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) and was produced in co-production with the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR). We thank the whole team for the great cooperation and look forward to the premiere and the exciting program of the DOK Leipzig.