Enquanto Pinto, Me Vejo

Buffalo 10(en)

Claire, once an Ivy League-bound twink, now a glamorous woman aching for the simplicity of suburbia, returns to Buffalo after years in NYC. She stumbles into the path of Colin, a local burnout. Does he find her worldliness alluring, or is he just a chaser intent on projecting a fantasy onto the doll?

Tailor(pt)

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.

Trans*BUT — Fragments of Identity(tr)

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?”

What Makes a Woman(en)

In What Makes a Woman, Munroe Bergdorf sets out to explore the changing world of gender and identity by way of her very own, very personal journey. Showing her in quiet, intimate, and extremely vulnerable moments. An honest insight into gender identity, Bergdorf prepares for a life-changing facial surgery, helping her finally picture herself as a woman.

Transfixed(fr)

Bo is a transexual prostitute in Brussels who left home after being abused by her father. She's infuatuated with a neighbor and suspected by the police in a series of transexual murders. In order to clear herself she must turn detective.

White Room: Tomarenai Ai(ja)

Hayato, an office worker, lives with Tatsuya, a part-time worker. The two have a dream: to save up their money and one day run a gay bar. The day they had sex while talking about their dreams before going to work, Hayato felt depressed. His boss had suggested that he set up an arranged meeting. He couldn't tell Tatsuya. One day, Tatsuya's old lover Fujita bursts into his room. It turned out that he had become a transsexual...

Nevada(en)

Maria, an emotionally-stunted transgender punk on an aimless road trip across the country has a chance encounter with James H., a repressed minimum-wage worker trapped in the purgatory that is rural Nevada. Over the next 24 hours, the two form an unlikely bond as Maria helps James unpack a question he’s been frightened to ask himself his entire life: is he trans?

Primavera das Mulheres(pt)

Llámenme puta(es)

Sarah is a trans sex worker who fulfills her dream of breast augmentation. She show us her daily routine of life, showing people that whores are not vampires who only go out at night to do sex work, but also human beings with a normal life.

Queen of Hearts(es)

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.

Escaping Gravity(de)

To finally gain her father's acceptance, transsexual Leonie decides to return masqueraded as a man to the world of her childhood: the funfair. Though even the old owner of the ghost train has something to hide.

Nome Provisório(pt)

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.

The Accidental Archivist(en)

Julie Peters is a legend in the trans community in Australia. She was the first person to transition at the ABC, at a time when there were no role models around her. From her early twenties, Julie started collecting anything trans or queer related to help her work out who she was. Over the years she’s collected one of the most comprehensive trans archives in the country. Including Interview with ABC MD David Anderson.

La identidad que hemos construido(es)

Marcela, Anabella and Estrella are three trans women who have defied the lifespan expected for a trans person. Through their recollections, one explores the memory’s strength, resistance and love for life of these three women.

The New Girlfriend(fr)

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

Dysphoria(en)

A graphic exploration of the undesired effects of testosterone on a young transgender woman's (pre-HRT) body.

Pre-Drink(fr)

Alexe is a young trans woman, and Carl a gay man. Best friends since forever, an evening spent together destabilizes Alexe, when both decide to have sex together for the first time.

Kelet(fi)

Kelet is a twentysomething black trans woman, whose greatest dream is to be on the cover of Vogue magazine. For the Finnish-born and Manchester-raised Kelet, such models as Naomi Campbell and Iman served as role models giving her strength – and during the darkest times, kept her alive. After coming out, then 19-year-old Kelet was cut off from her family and she moved back to Finland on her own.

Memories Revealed(es)

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.

Law of Desire(es)

Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.