This years Trans Film Fest Stockholm takes place March 28th at Föreningen Midsommargården, Telefonplan 3.
Free entrance as always!
Doors open from 11.30-22.00!
Fika and vegan dinner!
Merch!
LONGING- 12.00-13.30
In the mood for a good drama? Or do you have boyfriend troubles, estranged family or unraveling memories? LONGING is a collection of four films inviting you to reflect on lifes journeys, big and small, with a full spectrum of emotion from doubt to love.
This program is approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes long.
Devils in the Bush – Juliet Belisario
In a summer’s sweltering heat, 20-something Fei begins to suspect her boyfriend is cheating. As doubt takes root for Fei, she searches for connection elsewhere.
Greenhorn – Sabrina Way
Learning that her estranged father has been in a car accident, 20-something masculine presenting Logan must return home to care for him. Preparing her father’s home for his return, Logan discovers her father’s old western wear from his time as a ranch hand. Curiosity getting the best of her, she tries it on and discovers a new-found comfort in it. Logan begins to wear it around the house and her hometown. Upon his return, what was meant to be a warm reunion turns sour as her father’s disgruntled behaviour and discomfort with Logan’s appearance begins to show through the cracks.
Beyond the Golden Line – SJ Rahatoka
Midnight. The moon is shining and the night is feverish in the colorful queer club. A wounded pole dancer is haunted by mysterious phone calls. Fear of rejection has prevented him from saying who he really is, and kept him hidden away from people close to his heart. What if tonight, the magic of his pole offered him the chance to reconnect with the people he loves, and reveal his full radiance?
Äned am Bärg (Yonderland) – Renée Steffen & Li Tavor
Äned am Bärg (Yonderland) follows Red and Blue as they rift through the rooms of a secluded house beyond the Swiss mountains, caught in the quiet repetition of days that seem to stretch, fold, and begin again. The house feels less like a home than a residue of past lives and desires, a place where time lingers and identities start to unravel. Blurring the line between memory and reality, the film explores waiting, disappearance, and queerness as a state of suspension rather than arrival.
TOGETHER– 14.00-15.00
Trans Film Fest LOVES love, and in TOGETHER we bring a trans parade of relationships both sweet and tender, nostalgic and dreamy, desperately lusting and certainly hot! Bring your friends and lovers to experience dreamy meet-cutes, motorbikes and sunset kisses, polyamorous cuddles and some sweaty tboy wrestling!
This program is approximately 1 hour long.
Mis-Angel – Wyatt Carson
Mis-Angel is a love story between two people who will never meet. A transgender girl explores an overlap of gender and sexual fantasy as she recalls a brief interaction with a stranger at a bus stop.
Sailor’s Wife – Timothée Schaller
After her husband dies at sea, a woman mourns a man she never truly knew. One night, she stumbles upon an underground queer club, where she begins to remake her body and forge a new persona.
PDX TBOY WRESTLING MATCH – J Jackson
A Transmasc Wrestling match held in Portland, Oregon for the first time ever.
it’s human, to look back – Chris Hale
Using footage of a real queer wedding, “it’s human to look back” recontextualised the video to tell a story of the slow decay of a marriage.
Black Tea – Be Steadwell
An artist and a collector argue over an antique teacup. They make their cases over a cup of tea and a crush develops.
The Fondness – Dardo & Musidora Escobar
Martirio, the mourner, falls in love with Sagrario, the bullfighter, when she watches her bullfighting the only bull in her small town. To get closer to his beloved, he will burn this bull alive so that the two of them coincide at the animal’s funeral. There they will meet and begin an intense relationship, where at night they will search for the bull’s killer throughout the region. Finally, it will be Martirio who will offer to play the role of the bull on the motorcycle.
WATER – 15.30-16.30
Have you ever wondered where the fish go when they migrate? To Trans Film Fest, of course! Take a deep breath and dive into the wonderful waters of deep sea creatures and aquatic transformations, with 7 films pondering on our relationship to WATER.
This block is approximately 1 hour long.
Wildlife Leaflets – Anna Dossmann
Are animals cisgender and straight? That’s what animal documentaries would make us believe. In Wildlife Leaflets animals ‘hack’ the documentaries they are the subject of, to assert their queerness with fervour and humour.
Supramuses – Lina Rivera
An idea, embodied in the body of a queer person, travels through handcrafted textile landscapes inside a creator’s mind – changing garments as they discover new facets of themselves, until realizing they are truly alive.
Normal Burger – Eli Campero
Joan, a young man who feels frustrated and disillusioned with what his life is like, goes for a walk by the waterfront. What he doesn’t expect is the fantastical adventure that awaits.
ANADROMOUS – Ari Grubb
Anadromous
[ uh-NAD-ruh-muhs ]
Adjective
(of fish) migrating from fresh water to sea water to spawn.
When they find themselves evolving out of their aquarium home, two fish set off on a musical journey of self-acceptance and queer joy, and find community in a freaky fish gay bar in the deepest depths of the ocean.
ALZOU – Ugo Woatzi
The queer community that once thrived in the Alzou Valley has disappeared. After years of exile, Alzou* – the river’s deity – returns. As they move through the dense forest, the environment seems to breathe with them, and the land begins to reveal fragments of the community’s memory. Through a ritual act, Alzou seeks to reconnect with the valley’s living forces, attempting to rekindle the bond between nature, spirit, and those who once inhabited this sacred place.
*Alzou takes its name from a river that flows through the Rocamadour valley in southwestern France, a place where, since my childhood, I have been able to observe the coexistence of nature, mysticism, and legends.
Return to Water – Kate Malyon & Sé Malaïka Nomyo
At the Walpole Tidal Pool in Margate, England, a swimmer reflects on how water becomes a space for transformation and self-discovery. As the tides shift and the pool appears and disappears, so too does their visibility and understanding of their gender identity – sometimes opaque, sometimes clear. Through swimming in the sea, the boundaries between body and environment soften, offering a way to understand queerness as expansive, fluid, and deeply connected to place.
The Tale of Tran Thanh Duong – Hachul Le Do
In a world where men are fish, and women are shrimp, which body of water carries ones who are neither?
ON THE ROAD – 17.00-18.00
Engines, motorcycles, long windy roads and many, many deliveries: Trans Fest is ready to step on the gas, rev your feelings and go ON THE ROAD! Ready your hearts and prepare for a road trip filled with love, suspense and drama, as we present 6 films all taking place in or on motor vehicles.
This program is approximately 1 hour long.
In the Light of a Miracle – OJ Parker
Andre, a pretty boy with dreams of sainthood is swept away and embarks on a killing spree with Clint, a hot older voyeur, while trying to cross the Texas border to evacuate from a hurricane.
Homemade Gatorade – Carter Amelia Davis
A woman embarks on a late night road trip to deliver her homemade sports drink to a mysterious online buyer.
Dread – Gabe Gabriel & Loren Loubser
A Black transmasculine Uber driver’s car becomes dangerously possessed when a German hippie offloads her trauma demon on a ride through the racially segregated, tourist-infested Cape Town.
Last Orders – Adam Ali
Whilst trying her best to deal with the loss of her grandfather, Joy and her seemingly ruthless best friend Nora must flee a hate march, abandod their beloved pub and the fight for a future worth living, but they must first save their friendship.
Pickup – Kaye Hurley
My body is a machine that carries me. Rev your engine.
The City, by Motoboy – Mariana Vita
On a Friday night in a small town São Paulo state, a delivery rider tears through the streets. As he moves across town, it becomes clear: the walls divide far more than property lines. Only a transgressive love can ease the weight of his exhaustion.
BEYOND – 19.00-20.30
Trans Film Fest goes up and beyond as we explore the stars and our futures with four fantastical science fiction trans films! Boy bands, giant lobsters, androids, trans superheroines and futuristic witches: all and more is promised in BEYOND, a program exploring our bonds to ourselves and to others, and the futures we can make along the way.
This block is approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
SHEMERGENCY – Paolo Accogli
Sher is a transgender superheroine, guardian of the trans* and queer community. Not all of Sher’s missions consist in defeating supervillains; some are more mundane, at times ridiculous, but still with the support and help of her sisters in the times of need in mind.
Sky Rogers: manager to the stars – Ciel Sourdeau
Sky Rogers tries to fashion a failed boy band as its biggest icon slips away. Will the manager stare at the heavens while his stars slip away? Success stories, giant lobsters and cosmic love; these are the watchwords of Sky Rogers’ tragic epic.
Iloveyou, Iloveyou, Iloveyou (…) – boy princess
A film that doesn’t exist. Or rather, a film that is a promise. “Euteamo Euteamo Euteamo (…)” presents itself as a trailer – a remnant of something that will never be completed, a moment captured between possibility and absence. In a distant world governed by a queer dictatorship, the decision of a non-binary couple to marry defies social norms, blurring the boundaries between gender and love in a universe where reversals are the rule and limitations are nothing but mere illusions. But this gesture – getting married, affirming oneself, existing – is not fixed in a single time or space. It repeats, fold onto itself, just like the film’s title, endlessly echoing.
Notes on Identity – Marisa Arraes
Notes on Identity is a Brazilian film made by Marisa Arraes, director, producer and distributor from Brasília, the modernist capital of a ‘Country of the Future’ that never quite arrives. This short film is a way to imagine a future to be elaborated with each other. Collaborating or disputing, but always in relation.
If I’m Here It Is By Mystery – Clari Ribeiro
New Rio, 2054. Renowned witch Dahlia arrives at the port with a mission: to found the most powerful Clan that has ever existed and thus defeat the Order of Truth. In the future, many people are trans – but only a few are witches.
HORROR – 21.00-22.00
When things seem bleak, and it feels like cisnormativity creeps around every corner, trans film knows exactly how to handle it: moody thrills, sweet revenge and body-body-body-gore!
This block is approximately 50 minutes long.
Her Kind – Ingrid Jungermann
Inspired by an Anne Sexton poem, HER KIND is an experimental horror short shot on Super 8 that reimagines the Changeling myth within the everyday rhythms of contemporary Brooklyn, NY. The film follows a mysterious Woman who spends her days perched at the window of a second-floor apartment, carefully tracking the routines of a Mother and her Baby who live across the street. HER KIND is a haunting meditation on identity, imitation, and the unsettling pressure places on women to inhabit roles they may not have chosen.
Fragments Pt. 2 The Asylum Footage – Eli Valencia
Content creator duo Ash and Ashley, joined by their cameraman Marco, venture into an abandoned asylum to film a subscriber special for their channel. What begins as a lighthearted exploration quickly spirals into chaos when strange, unexplainable events take over.
Taste Like Pork – Dante Dammit
An eager trans woman serves up her genitalia to a cannibalistic cis woman.
TransVengeance – Kaye Adelaide
A trans woman dies on the operating table during facial feminization surgery, but death is no match for a determined transsexual. This film is an act of vengeance. On behalf of myself and all scorned transsexuals. We’re harder to kill than we appear.
The final girl – Alice Michaud
Drawing from the legacy of horror cinema, The final girl centers on the archetype of the female sole survivor, the Final Girl, placing her at the heart of the narrative. What would happen if the Final Girl herself told the story? If she took hold of the “found footage”, how would she show it?
LOVE SEX MEDIA – all day
16mm, VHS, video games, archival collage, and grain mingling with pixels! LOVE SEX MEDIA is this years edition of our Media Room, showcasing films that process, unravel and reshape our bodies and identities with reflexivity, playfulness and experimental techniques.
This block is approximately 45 minutes long and screens on a loop all day long.
Thank You For Your Love – Jin Lim
Bodies, represented as both ambiguously gendered and genderless dogs, timidly grapple in their search for intimacy.
Our Joyful Endings – La Fille Renne & Levon Babayan
Our Joyful Endings follows the diary of a trans-masculine person who sees his own and others’ views of his body change during his transition. Between desire, apprehension and questioning. From there, comfort grows with people who share this experience.
Naturally… A Woman – Sarah Estrada
Through a careful selection of images and sounds extracted from various archives, the director of this short film offers a profound reflection on the process of discovering and blossoming her identity. In this personal journey, moments of stumbling, uncertainty and beauty are intertwined, revealing the complexity and richness of the search for authenticity and acceptance.
Leather Graves – Malic Amalya
Leather Graves is an experimental 16mm film that explores the permeable boundaries between exile and ecstasy. Cruising amongst gravestones queers defy death by devouring candy-coated blossoms.
dancing on the soft knife – april forrest lin 林森
Braiding together videos from their phone storage into a cut scene, april forrest lin 林森 experiments with the visual novel video game form as autofictive vessel. Here, the visual novel’s interactive possibility, with its branching storylines and multiple choices, is approached as an exercise in the narrativisation of one’s self. Created in response to OHYUNG’s song “dancing on the soft knife”, the film coalesces both artists’ journeys in rehoming their bodies, of claiming transness as theirs, into one.
Love is like – Ibimina Dominique Thompson & Mariah Hanson
Love is like is a silent French noir film that explores the concept of self love through a black non-binary lens.
giiwe πρό bizhiw / bizhiw πρό giiwe – mystery byrd
A home video, dedicated to my baby.
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