Donkey girl

Farouzi (12), a Dutch-Arabic girl is daydreaming while she is looking outside during her work at a fishery. She doesn’t care about the boys in the fishery, the only one that really means something to her is her donkey Soufiane, who always follows her. One day a girl comes by the fishery on a scooter. The arrival of this self-willed girl makes Farouzi jump on her donkey, leaving to search for luck.

“Donkeygirl,” directed by Ties Schenk, won the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival in Australia. The festival attracted 25,000 attendees, making it one of the largest LGBTQ+ film festivals in the world. “Donkeygirl” is about 12-year-old girl Farouzi who discovers that she is in love with another girl. In 2007, the film also received the Golden Kinderkast for the best Dutch children’s television program. Since then, the film has been screened at nearly forty international film festivals. Diula Rietveldt Franken and Alomai Huisman made their acting debut in “Donkeygirl.”

“Where do the fish pee?
For the time being it’s a guess.
They live above judgment,
Because fish don’t judge.
For a fish there’s no water
And for the water there’s no fish.
The water is the fish.”