KIN – 12.30

In the mood for a good drama? Whether through humor, a dance number or a lingering camera, these four films will take you on a journey exploring friendship, family and looking for a place to belong. 

This block is 1hour long and start at 12:30.

Koupepia

Sophia Vi & Yorgo Glynatis

At his son’s engagement party, a widowed Cypriot father bonds with a transgender woman over a traditional Cypriot dish, koupepia, challenging his beliefs about identity, heritage, and acceptance. 

Flowering Man

Soumyajit Ghosh Dastidar

Shashi undergoes metamorphosis when a flowering plant starts growing from inside his mouth. His distanced teenage daughter undertakes a journey toward embracing the new image of her father. 

A Bird Called Memory

Leonardo Martinelli

A bird called memory has forgotten how to come back home. Lua, a trans woman, searches for Memory in the streets, but the city can be a hostile place. 

LOLO

Ana Gutiérrez Salgado & Alex Moreno-Novelo

LOLO lives and works on his late grandpa’s chinampa in Xochimilco. While striving to make a living with their harvest, despite the tranquility in that piece of land, LOLO doesn’t feel themselves. One afternoon at the tanguis market, LOLO reunites with KAT, an old friend. Alongside her and other friends, LOLO discovers an open safe space where they feel fre to start cultivating their own true self.


WACKY (TRANS SENSIBILITIES)- 14.30

Come meet a dancing fox helping out a new friend, a giant goddess seeking fun (and love), or a divorced man in crisis. Why not also a polycule squeezed into a one-room apartment, or a gender reveal party gone entirely wrong? In WACKY (Trans Sensibilities), friendship, love and discovery is explored through the fun, the magical and the heartfelt.

This block is 1hour long and start at 14.30.

Gender Reveal

Mo Matton

Rhys, a dedicated people pleaser, winds up at their boss’ gender reveal party with their two partners. The trans throuple soon realizes that they are dealing with more than they were prepared for and their ability to survive the event comes into question.

Nocturnal Animals

Indigo Braga & Paulo Abrão

Over Rio de Janeiro looms the monstrous shadow of Mutante, a giant goddess, who, standing over 100 meters tall, constantly provokes the world below. Through her window peeping, she encounters Mulher, an artisan who will transform her world.


Dragfox

Lisa Ott

Sam’s search for identity gets interrupted by a mysterious neighbourhood fox. Together they embark on a magical journey to the attic to discover the surprising things they might have in common, and how to celebrate the ways in which they differ. 

Family with Benefits

Linua Land

Vicky, Sky, and Sepp have an unusual living situation: all three live in a tiny one-room apartment. The fact that they are still in a polyamorous relationship together does not make the situation any easier. Two voyeuristic documentary filmmakers are now trying to capture the everyday life of the three. 

Tito

Nano Arenado

Tito is a short film about a recently divorced man going through an internal crisis and transformation. In the midst of his emotional turmoil his eccentric friends support him in unexpected ways. 


T ❤ T – 16.00

Love is in the air at Trans Film Fest! 

Reminiscing cowboys, a bit of trans family drama and a new crush between witches: this program has a little bit of everything. But navigating the matters of the heart is certainly on the agenda.

This block is 1hour long and start at 16.00.

Mother Returns

Amy Stone

Suzy (Sharlene Esse) returns to the city after years away to visit her daughter Lia (Aurora Jamelo) and her husband Manu (Caeu Fidelis). During the reunion, secrets are revealed, and the complexities of a trans-centered family are exposed.

The Lonesome Pony

Milo Richards

Finding himself at a crossroads, ‘Pony Boy’ takes a trip through ‘Lonesome Town,’ reminiscing on the relationship he once shared with a fellow drag king. Through profound flashback, we witness their deep parallels, through fond card games, sunset cigarettes, and ultimately, mutual interconnection. 

Toxic Astrology Ex-Best Friends

Jack Warren

Arla and Emmie share everything: They’re both witches, they love astrology, and they cohost a podcast to help other trans people with their relationship problems. But all is thrown into question when Arla realizes that, for the first time, she has a secret she can’t talk about on the mic: she has a crush on Emmie. Will their friendship survive?


LOUISE WEARD – 19.00

Did someone say 80s slasher-style, techno-erotic, trans horror? Absolutely! In this retrospective, we welcome you to Louise Weard’s world of video nostalgia, digital lust and body, body, body horror!

This program is 1 hour and 15 minutes long, and starts at 19.00.

🎬 Hide (2014)

🎬 S.I.D.S. (2014)

🎬 Chasing Rewind (2016)

🎬 House That Kills People (2014)

🎬 Ambition (2020)

🎬 Framing Story for Unfinished Computer Hearts Anthology (2014)

🎬 Computer Hearts (2022)


FLESH – 21.00

The horror! The bugs!! The flesh!!!

Come join us in FLESH, a surreal and suspenseful program filled with bog bodies, murder, insects and meat. This horror-feast consists of five films exploring bodies, memory, identity, pleasure and more! 

This block is 1hour long and start at 21.00..

The Fly and the Honey

L. Connors & Elly Stern

A reimagining of one of Aesop’s fables. A fly pays dearly for its lust for pleasure. Best to not be too greedy, it may destroy you. 

Out of the Peat

Tabitha Carless-Frost & Theo Rollason

Flesh as film, and film as flesh… An amateur archaeologist arrives on a desolate peatland in Lancashire, their mind filled with the strange power that peat-bog waters hold to preserve organic matter. They have come to exhume a body. But, in digging into the peat – and into the past – they unearth much more than mere relics.

Desdemona

Clara Klaus & Franco Cavezale

Zi is a solitary and methodical person who spends most of their time working – specifically, creating realistic human body prosthetics to be used as props in films. One weekend, while they are alone, a swarm of insects begins to invade their home and consume their body. 

Mesmeralda

Joshua Matteo

In this queer neo giallo, Elena, a trans woman obsessed with 9/11 news footage, descends into a surreal nightmare after witnessing a brutal murder.

Ay! Cordero

Cielo Itturalde Carrera

The repression of desire is portrayed in a being inhabited by a duality present in everyday life, a young butcher who explores his femininity surrounded by blood, death and violence. 


AVANTGARDE – All day

AVANTGARDE presents five films, diverse in theme but joined together by an exploration in colors, forms and techniques. In this programme we investigate, question and rejoice in the body and the self in relation to explorations, transformations and resistance. 

This block is 30 minutes long and screens continously throughout the day, 11.30-22.00..

TERF/ANTITERF

Lucien Pin

I am a trans man, and this self-portait is a visual objection to the transphobic rhetoric of TERFs. In a single-shot sequence, I undress as their hateful discourse unfolds. They talk about irreversible procedures. I, on the other hand, am thrilled with my scars. My body is legitimate. I exist. Fuck them.

AUGMENTED

Raymond Rea

AUGMENTED is an experimental non-fiction short, shot completely on 16mm, centering around a conversation I had with close firend Max Wolf Valerio discussing commonalities between my medical agumentation, spinal surgery, and Transgender alignment. 

Fire

Nico da Costa

Fire (2024) is a hybrid work that mixes animation and other tools from the visual arts and cinema. This work arises from an investigation of what the image of transmutation would be. 

La Cresta

Nanichi Nieves Diaz

Inside a cold hospital room, a group of doctors attend the birth of a baby. In the doctor’s hands is the fleshy and feathery destiny of the newborn. What will their gender be?

CHROMA

Shan Leigh Pomeroy

CHROMA is a moving portrait of the artist discovering colour; an allegory for self-discovery and the queer joy. 


MIRROR ROOM – All day

Welcome to the Mirror Room, where we invite you to reflect on the everyday. There will be hot love, parties and work, phonecalls and friendships; a full house of trans lives from a documentary perspective.

This block is 1 hour long and screens continously throughout the day, 11.30-22.00.

En kväll mellan raderna
An Evening Between the Lines

Mika Hyvönen

An Evening Between the Lines contrasts alarmist articles about transgender people against a warm summer evening, spent with a person who has just moved into a new student apartment, misses their hometown, and calls their mother.

Travesti Opening

J Triangular

In Medellín’s beating heart, Travesti Opening pulses defiantly as La Tiana’s Travesti Gang turns survival into art. Fierce, fabulous, and fearless – watch closely, you might just become a Travesti too. 

Autogynephile

Iona Hart

Autogynephile documents a trans lesbian culture which might have existed in America during the late 2010s. What does trans culture mean, and how do we learn to desire one another within or without such culture? Testimony is taken from women involved in the filmmaker’s life. 

Daphne

Nicola Bianchi

Daphne, a performer, author, and LGBTQ educator based in Milan, navigates two worlds: by day, she juggles work, firendships and dating apps; by night, she explores the experimental underground scene of parties and drugs. The film offers an intimate look at hey journey of self-discovery.

You can’t get what you want but you can get me

Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh

A unique slideshow documenting two long-haired trans men falling madly in love. Over the course of one year, the artist couple Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh gathered photographs from real-life events such as their first kiss, meeting each other’s parents, long-distance thirst traps,  a beach wedding, and top surgery and its subsequent recovery. A sweet and steamy celebration of T4T love with life and art all tangled up.