At a time when the far right is ascending to power around the world, the 2020 Brazilian municipal elections saw a surprising and unprecedented record of LGBT candidates. This film follows four young queer politicians during their electoral campaigns and reveals their struggle to affirm their rights to exist and be heard.
A short documentary about being trans in Ireland.
After skipping town a decade ago, transgender activist Caz Davis returns to the remote, politically divided dairy community of Rurangi, hoping to reconnect with his estranged father, who hasn't heard from him since before Caz transitioned.
In this documentary, director Rhys Ernst tells the previously untold histories of transgender pioneers. Trans people have always been here, throughout time, often hidden in plain sight.
Parimal is a woman trapped in a man’s body who runs away from home and joins a ghetto of eunuchs as Puti and sings at traffic signals to earn money. There she falls in love with Madhu, a delivery boy with a Chinese restaurant who moonlights as a flautist in kirtans. The love blossoms even as Puti dreams of raising the money required for the sex reassignment surgery.
In Oslo, 15-year-old Mahmoud is looking forward to the summer vacation. All that’s missing is a job, money or something to do. So when his uncle arrives on a visit from Pakistan, Mahmoud takes on the task of showing him everything the capital city has to offer. At the same time, his younger brother Ali lets him in on a very personal secret, leaving Mahmoud facing the biggest test of his life to keep the family together.
Un approfondimento sulla rappresentazione di Hollywood delle persone transgender e all'impatto di quelle storie sulle vite transgender e sulla cultura americana.
Describing herself as a 'street queen,' Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York City’s gay ghetto and a tireless voice for LGBT pride since the days of Stonewall, who along with fellow trans icon Sylvia Rivera, founded Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), a trans activist group based in the heart of NYC’s Greenwich Village. Her death in 1992 was declared a suicide by the NYPD, but friends never accepted that version of events. Structured as a whodunit, with activist Victoria Cruz cast as detective and audience surrogate, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson celebrates the lasting political legacy of Johnson, while seeking to finally solve the mystery of her unexplained death.
In the spotlight of global media coverage, the first transgender woman ever to perform as Don Giovanni in a professional opera, makes her historic debut in one of the reddest states in the U.S.
Una donna cinese transgender, riceve una visita inaspettata da sua cugina che le dice che sua madre (che non visitava da molto tempo) è morta. Essendo l’unico "figlio maschio", si sente obbligata a tornare al suo luogo di nascita, anche se dovrà nascondersi da famiglia e amici.
Sharing her journey from child to teen activist, Georgie Stone looks back at her life and historic fight for transgender rights in this documentary.
Indianara definisce se stessa una puttana parlamentare, atea, anarchica e vegana. Nata come Sergio Siqueira, decide molto presto di diventare donna e inventa il suo nome in omaggio alle origini indigene di sua madre e a Nara, un’amica transgender che la sostiene. Rivoluzionaria inclassificabile, fondatrice di Casa em, un centro di accoglienza per transgender a Rio de Janeiro, consigliera comunale insieme Marielle Franco, Indianara continua la sua lotta contro pregiudizi e machismo.
At a time when transgender people are banned from serving in the U.S. military, four of the thousands of transgender troops risking discharge fight to attain the freedom they so fiercely protect.
Il disconoscimento della propria identità resta per molte trans una seconda morte, quella della loro memoria. Le famiglie si vergognano e così funerale, cerimonia e tumulazione avvengono in gran segreto tra pochi intimi, frettolosamente manomesse nell’estetica. Sulle lapidi viene stampato il loro nome da uomo, in un’identità che mai più sarà quella da loro scelta durante la loro la vita terrena. È quello che accade ad Antonia, sepolta con il suo nome di battesimo, Giampaolo, nell’indifferenza dei più. Vent’anni dopo, il ritrovamento di una lettera spinge le sue migliori amiche, Porpora e Nicole, a organizzare un ritrovo della Memorabile Famiglia Reale, il gruppo di elette nella sconfinata costellazione trans, per rivivere un’intera giornata tutte assieme nell’appartamento storico, come facevano nei favolosi weekend di molti anni prima.
Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at ages 4, 7, 12, and 15 – as they redefine “coming of age.” These kids and their families show us the intimate realities of how gender is re-shaping the family next door in a unique and unprecedented chronicle of growing up transgender in the heartland.
In 2016, transgender teen Gavin Grimm sued his local school board after its members refused to let him use the bathroom of his choice. He was ready to take his case all the way to the Supreme Court—and then the election happened.
After years away from home, Duna returns to his home village to get reunited with his ill father. Upon arrival, she will feel rejection and misunderstanding about her trans-sexuality. Will she reconcile with her past and father?
Lies can kill. Transgender Nuclear Suicide Sojourner is an exploration of propaganda, lies, and the overwhelming urge to end it all.
The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco three years earlier. Those who stood up were trans women and gay men. Now, nearly 40 years on, Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman tell the story of this oft-overlooked event in the history of American civil rights.
Four Spanish-language shorts about the importance and complexity of people's perception from award winning directors. Stories of identity, misconceptions, regrets, dreams and love are told in this diverse collection.
Includes: Tenants [Inquilinos] (2018); My Brother [Mi hermano] (2015); Guillermo on the Roof [Guillermo en el tejado] (2018); You Are Not a Woman [Usted no es mujer] (2018).