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My Body, My Love: Lesbians, Gays and Transgenders(de)
Gays, lesbians and transgender people - more and more people are admitting that they feel differently than their biological sex suggests. How openly can they live out their sexuality today? The documentary "My Body, My Love - Lesbians, Gays and Transgenders" shows people who live outside the sexual norm: a gay soccer club in Munich, a lesbian couple in Zurich, a gay police officer in Vienna, a transsexual politician. How important was "coming out" for them? Where do they encounter social boundaries? What makes life difficult for them?

We Are Transgenders(ja)
Lulu Ogawa's fascinating 1998 video documentary depicts a wide cross-section of Japanese transgendered people, from drag queens to FTMs to intersex activists to male transvestites. They tell familiar stories of exclusion and abuse while growing up, discuss the need for safe spaces where they can express their complex identities, and reveal the cost of black-market hormones and the physical pain of sex-reassignment surgery.

Transgender Nuclear Suicide Sojourner(en)
Lies can kill. Transgender Nuclear Suicide Sojourner is an exploration of propaganda, lies, and the overwhelming urge to end it all.

The Transgender Spring(en)
This blooming spring roars through the streets that there will be not a minute of silence but a lifetime of struggle. That their murdered ancestors, swept away by cement and oblivion, rise like a wave of platform flowers, their bones are the possession of all those who survive discrimination, exclusion and transphobia. Dead under the hands of the world and in their own arms, today, like a silent monument, the root of this struggle flourishes in cement. Today something does happen, today they are everywhere, in all people; because they will be able to cut each and every one of the flowers but they will not stop the spring. Right now: transvestite, trans-sexual, trans-human, trans-powerful, insurrectional spring, beautifully grotesque, wild, furious, own, crazy, free. Trans Spring

Visible: Transgender Youth Stories(es)
Two teenagers seek the fullness of their identities with time on top and normality against it. First hand testimony of transgender kids and the support of their family.

Transitioning : Transgender Children(ca)
This documentary explores the transitioning through first-hand stories told by four young people who have taken this step. Their moving statements shed light on how these boys and girls felt, both before and after making the transition, and the difficult process that parents often go through in accepting that change.

Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids(en)
Louis Theroux travels to San Francisco where a group of pioneering medical professionals help children who say they were born in the wrong body transition from boy to girl or girl to boy at ever younger ages.

Necessity: Transgender Touch(en)
Two transgender lovers lay in bed and slowly embrace each other.

Necessity: Transgender Kiss(en)
A plea for on-screen representation of transgender intimacy.

Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best?(en)
Around the world there has been a huge increase in the number of children being referred to gender clinics. Increasingly, parents are encouraged to adopt a 'gender affirmative' approach - fully supporting their children's change of identity. But is this approach right?

My Transgender Kid(en)
Two British families discuss the challenges they face raising children who identify as a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth.
Transgender, at War and in Love(en)
A transgender airman is deployed to Afghanistan as the gender he knows himself to be. But everyday he risks being discharged because outdated U.S. policy bans open trans service.

Transgender Nation(en)
Gender identification is changing rapidly and is causing heated division between the left and the right. From LGBTQ, gay, transsexual, transgender and more, lift the veil on the world of the Transgender and explore the secrets of a world most misunderstand.

Mom, I'm Not A Girl: Raising a Transgender Child(en)
A mother speaks about raising her son Penelope, who had been assigned female at birth.

My Transgender Life: Male or Female?(en)
The documentary covers what it's like to grow up in the wrong gender and eventually transition. The decision to transition from one gender to another is a life changing one not just for the transgender person themselves but also for their family and friends. Here are the Stories of Tien, Pina, James, Sandy-Leo, Kinnon, Evan and Gayle.

My Transgender Life: Paul Wears Dresses(en)
Follows the struggles of Stefonknee Wolscht, a trans woman trying to rebuild her life. Losing her home and her family, Stefonknee gives a first hand account of the many challenges trans people face. In her hometown, Stefonknee was known as a loving husband and father, a really good mechanic and a staunch Catholic but only she knew the truth; that she had been assigned to the wrong gender.

Transgender: To Be A Man(en)
This is a story about Levi Hansinger, who transitioned from female to male. Over the first year of the transition he struggles through finding himself, but with the continuous support of this mother and family, he aims to find out what it means to become a man.
The Concision of a Six Foot Five Inch Transgender Woman Shaving Her Body(en)
An intimate and meditative scene of a trans woman shaving her body.

American Transgender(en)
Most of us can answer that question without a second thought, but for some people, the answer isn’t so simple. American Transgender takes us firsthand into the daily lives of three individuals—Clair, Jim, and Eli—who each identify with a different gender from the one in which they were born and raised. We witness their struggles and triumphs, and experience their hopes and fears. How do they manage at work, build careers, maintain friendships, and nurture lasting, intimate partnerships? Each of the characters in the film tells their story in their own words as we follow them through life’s daily battles and victories, both large and small.

Trans March 2020: A Look Back at Transgender History(en)
This inviting short uses original video footage to offer detailed insight into the origins of the Trans March, showing how far we’ve come in trans visibility, and yet how much more progress is to be made.