Film Categories: Trans*

  • Off World

    Two million tonnes of waste inhabit the landfill known as Smokey Mountain in Manila, Philippines. A squatter community of more than 30,000 people live in the slums around the landfill, and make their living by picking through the decomposing mountain of trash, looking for rare valuables. This is the setting for director Mateo Guez’s raw, ethereal first feature film. “Off World” follows a young Toronto man, Lucky, as he returns to Smokey Mountain for the first time since his adoption by Canadian parents when he was just a year old. Aided by NGO worker, Julia, Lucky tracks down his surviving…

  • Kaden Later

    The sequel to Harriet Storm’s “Kaden” (2006), “Kaden Later” follows Kaden and his partner, Monika, as they explore life after Kaden’s top surgery. For Kaden, a trans guy in his early thirties, top surgery gave him the body he wanted. Now, as he and his partner plan their wedding, he must figure out how he fits into society, not as female or male but in a space in between.

  • Kaden

    “Kaden” is a short documentary that follows Kaden Rushford, a 29-year-old female-to-male transgender individual as he considers the complex issues concerning identity, sexuality, and his pursuit of the “right” body. As he prepares to undergo top surgery, he shares his experience as a trans guy, including his internal struggles as well as his navigation of a society that recognizes only two genders. This documentary invites us to consider the notion that gender identities extend beyond strict definitions of male and female. Special Mention, Chéries-Chéris LGBT Festival, 2010 (Paris, France)

  • Golden Years

    Eve, an unhappy but successful sex worker who is saving money for surgery, discovers an abandoned baby. With the good but poorly formulated intentions of Joe – a strange client with a Christmas fetish – the couple decide to raise the baby.

  • Latecomers

    Margaret was a married father of five until she had gender reassignment surgery at the age of 58; Peter, 53, just told his family he is gay, but he’s determined to stay with his wife. “Latecomers” looks at why Margaret and Peter waited so long to come out of the closet, how their families reacted and how their lives are changing.

  • I’m Just Anneke

    “I’m Just Anneke” is a portrait of a 12-year-old girl who loves ice hockey and has a loving, close-knit family. Anneke is also a hardcore tomboy and everybody she meets assumes she’s a boy. The onset of puberty has created an identity crisis for Anneke. Does she want to be a boy or a girl when she grows up, or something in between? To give her more time to make a decision, her doctor has put her on Lupron, a hormone blocker that temporarily freezes her body in a pre-pubescent state. Despite rejection by her friends and struggles with suicidal…

  • Family Journey: Raising Gender Nonconforming Children, The

    “The Family Journey: Raising Gender Nonconforming Children” charts the emotional and intellectual transformations parents and siblings must make in order to successfully nurture their gender nonconforming family members. In frank, vulnerable interviews, families from all over the country speak about the power of love and acceptance to help their unusual children thrive. They also come to realize that loving a gender nonconforming child, in the face of ignorance, and sometimes hostility, has turned them into more compassionate human beings.

  • Poker Face

    A rowdy “girls’ night out” poker game takes a turn when a woman receives a call from relatives about a death in her estranged family. Secrets are revealed and intimate friendships are called into question as the group comes to terms with seeing a friend in a new light. “Emerging Film Award – Best Women’s Short,” North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (2011)

  • En bondes längtan (A farmer’s desire)

    Knut is a transsexual farmer from southern Sweden who has lived his life in the wrong body. Now Knut wants to live her life fully as a woman. “A Farmer’s Desire” is a warm, humorous film about longing and about finding the courage to stand up for who you really are.

  • Au pays des esprits (Home of the Buffalo)

    Constructed from Canadian prairie archival images taken between 1920 and 1940, this film lyrically explores a son/daughter’s relationship with his/her father and the family’s relationship to their land.