Director Alain Berliner has made a film about difference: the story of a little boy who dreams of being a little girl. What seems normal to Ludovic, does not seem normal to other people. When he says, "I’m a boy now, but one day I’ll be a girl," it makes perfect sense to him.

"Children live in a world of possibilities, a poetic, open world where the threshold between dreams and reality barely exists," says Berliner. "Nothing is definite, nothing is final. An adult’s vision, on the other hand, is already dominated by appearances, social codes and ideas about what is normal and what isn’t. For adults, it’s always blue for a boy and pink for a girl."

When Pierre and Hanna move into a smart Parisian suburb, they try to make friends with their new neighbours by holding a housewarming party. Their seven year old son, Ludovic, appears as a fairy princess in an outfit of tulle... For Ludovic’s parents, it takes real courage to accept their child’s difference because what terrifies them most is the prospect of being seen as different themselves. They are hurt by the disapproval that shows in their neighbours’ faces. A cross between comedy and drama, dream and reality, ’Ma Vie En Rose’ was shown at the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes in May and chosen to open the Edinburgh Film Festival this summer.