
14 Feb 2005

Transamerica
A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
While painting intuitively, Fran recounts defining moments of her journey as a trans woman. In an intimate space, the short film builds, through voice and color, a sensitive narrative about identity, body, and hope. Between brushstrokes and silences, a life is revealed—one that resists and finds recognition through art.

14 Feb 2005

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

09 Nov 2022

By approaching the process of sexual reassignment, the work mixes data and experiences, focusing on family relationships and the nuances of the feminine.

12 Nov 2016

A personal transgender documentary. From the time of coming out to the time of having sex reassignment surgery.

06 Jun 2017

Tailor is a transgender cartoonist that shares in his web page other trans people’s experiences and their challenges in society. Film about transgender, made by transgender crew.

14 Sep 2009

Sixteen year olds Palani and Karthik want to become "ladyboys." They're bullied in school and beaten by their families. Their parents would like to see them grow up as normal boys, but they're falling deeper and deeper into the world of the "Aravanis." Loved as dance performers but hated as homosexuals, their stories emblazon the inner conflicts of India's gender culture today.

08 Nov 2019

Over the course of 10 months, a camera travels to Buenos Aires, Argentina and Hanover, Germany to meet with Magalí, María Belén, Ivana and Carla, the founding members of the Archivo De La Memoria Trans Argentina, the first existing Trans Archive in the world. Taking the shape of a photo-novel, the documentary not only recounts the founding members lives as trans women under the Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983), the AIDS epidemy, state repression and mass assassinations but also years of fighting for their rights, sorority and the exaltation of life and laughter in times of death. Filming each one of them is filming them embracing their new role as curators, archivists and historians while a collection of 7,000 photos goes through the filter of their memories.

16 Aug 2017

A 50-year-old trans woman forgets she had gender reassignment surgery upon emerging from coma. Her 7-year-old daughter helps her recollect her memories.
23 Oct 2022
The struggle of a trans woman to have her identity recognized at her workplace.

16 Dec 2024

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08 Nov 2019

The documentary tells the story of Camille Cabral, Northeastern woman, transsexual, first Brazilian elected in France.

21 Feb 2019

The story of ten trans girls who form a co-op theatre to be able to stop working as prostitutes. The protagonists tell us their dreams, show their daily struggles and share their experiences and realities to be accepted and belong to society as well.

11 Oct 2014

A young woman makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend.

16 Apr 2015

Fragmentary perspectives on Human Rights and transgender (trans*) People in Turkey. What remains at the place where a murder happened? What constitutes trans* life? How to cope with daily violence and hatred? We begin to search for traces. We follow the tracks of resistance and survival. We are collectors of the expelled. We gather fragments of trans* lives inspired by texts of Nazim Hikmet, Foucault, Benjamin and Zeki Müren. Trans*BUT is a documental research study driven by the question: “What keeps you going when all else falls away?”

11 Oct 2017

Renata, while waiting for her friend's arrival at a restaurant, is faced with a family celebrating the pregnancy of Márcia and her husband. The discovery of the baby's gender brings to light an important reflection.
27 Oct 2018
This is the love story of Shirley and Luciana. The first marriage between two trans women in Latin America, thanks to the gender identity and marriage equality laws in Argentina.

09 Sep 2017

In this raw and graceful testimony of intersectional womanhood, a trans girl has to care for her Italian grandmother. She assumes that her Nonna disapproves of her - but instead discovers a tender bond in their shared vulnerability.

22 Oct 2016

After years away from home, Duna returns to his home village to get reunited with his ill father. Upon arrival, she will feel rejection and misunderstanding about her trans-sexuality. Will she reconcile with her past and father?

01 Jan 2017

Fee is out celebrating with her friends, but a voice from the past keeps plaguing her. Escaping the pub for a breath of fresh air, Fee comes across a church and follows her impulse. As her heels echo in the silence of the cathedral, that voice, the person who has rejected her all her life appears.

10 Jul 2015

It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.

10 Oct 2024

After embracing her female identity, Rubén rejects her Bar Mitzvah. When tragedy strikes years later, she returns as Mumy Singer to celebrate it her way.