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THURSDAY 16 APRIL 2026

20:00 She’s the He (opening film)

Hot Young Geek Seeks Blood-Sucking Freak (2024, Scotland, 12’)
Dir. / Writ. Heath Virgoe

Max and Ricky are all dressed up to party – but Halloween plans are complicated when a real-life vampire threatens to reveal Max’s secret online life. And also drink his blood and kill him.

FRIDAY 17 APRIL

13:00 Improvised Filmmaking Workshop w/ Henry Hanson
17:30 Love Shorts + Q&A
Today & Tmrw (2026, USA, 12’)
Dir. / Writ. Mariales Diaz
Best friends Mariah and Kimberly navigate their after-school routine in New York City, but an ordinary chill day takes an unexpected turn when unspoken feelings come to light.

Lost Bois (2024, USA, 4’)
Dir. / Writ. Devyn Galindo
A hedonistic and gritty exploration of the lives of three rebellious trans bois in New York City.

the moth, the ladybird, and everything in between (2025, Ireland, 7’)
Dir. Simone Ní Bhroin
The end of a love told through layers of pop culture narratives, mixed media animation, and the story of two insects.

Buffalo 10 (2025, USA, 12’)
Dir. Trisha Pickelhaupt
Writ. Claire Orrange
Aching for the simplicity of her upbringing, a glamorous NYC trans woman moves back home to Buffalo, where she tumbles into a Rust-Belt dalliance at the local bowling alley.

Eden (2025, USA, 10’)
Dir. / Writ. Rustin Zam-Zam Madadi
Roya returns home seeking a fresh start, only to become entangled in a web of desire at an all-women’s yoga studio.

differ3nt today (2024, USA, 4’)

Dir. / Writ. Monte Marin fka STEFA*
Through relaxed beats and diaristic video excerpts, composer and artist Monte Marin creates a T4T love tapestry dedicated to every trans angel: past, present, and future.

Zombie Butterflies (2025, Brazil, 17’)
Dir. / Writ. Pê Moreira & Thomas Argos
In this romcom rife with Brazilian queerness, João used to think the butterflies in his stomach were dead. But after he falls in love with his best friend Lucas, maybe they’ve come back to life.

Canvas (2025, The Netherlands, 3’)
Dir. / Writ. Max van Wijgerden
Two transgender people share their bodies in creative new ways, using artistic tools to sculpt the bodies that feel right for them.

Who is your first love? (2025, Switzerland, 15’)
Dir. / Writ. Jess Gaillard
A decade of interwoven childhood archives reveals the story of a precious trans friendship grown from play, curiosity and first loves in a small Swiss village.
20:00 Sex Shorts

Purebred (2025, Northern Ireland, 15’)
Dir. / Writ. Caleb J. Roberts
During a heatwave, a trans man returns to the flat of his on-off-again lover after taking a pregnancy test.

Our Joyful Endings (2025, France, 6’)
Dir. La Fille Renne & Levon Babayan
A diary rife with desire and apprehension begins merging with images of trans masc sex, intimacy and comfort.

Leather Graves (2025, USA, 12’)
Dir. / Writ. Malic Amalya
This experimental film awakens a graveyard as queers go cruising among the gravestones, finding queer culture engraved in the granite.

Mommy (2024, USA, Germany, 9’)
Dir. / Writ. Evie Snax & Manon Praline
Manon Praline shares a moving testimony of the challenges and joys she’s encountered in the six years since her bottom surgery.

Not Exactly Strangers (2025, USA, 15’)
Dir. / Writ. Ryan Rox
A tipsy hookup between a Latine trans woman and a skater boy from her past transforms into a tender story of forgiveness, self-worth, and the messy beauty of post-surgical sex.

Gamètes (2024, Belgium, 16’)
Dir. Nova Lov
Before she starts hormones, Nova is tasked with masturbating into a cup for fertility treatments. It’s an awkward endeavour – until Nova’s T4T lovers infiltrate the hospital to help get her off in spite of the clinical setting.

A Quick Fix (2024, Germany, 7’)
Dir. / Writ. Oran Julius, April Flores & Manon Praline
When dykey plumber Manon arrives, housewife April turns on her bimbo charm. Soon Manon is sliding into April's velvet robe, and she wants that wrench where?!

Rat Trap (2025, USA, 15’)
Dir. / Writ. Anaïs Alias & Avery Jaye
Ratgirl Angel has an easy rat life until she’s captured by a pervert ratologist. First Angel is subjected to orgasmic experiments in rat-human transgenesis–then she becomes Dr. Fontina’s plaything.
22:15 October Crow

PRE-FEATURE SHORTS

A Dream Fulfilled (2025, Ireland, 4’)
Dir. / Writ. Kaia Egritepe
A protagonist struggling with inner turmoil spirals into isolation before a reflective journey with their younger self reveals new perspectives.

If I'm Here It Is By Mystery (2024, Brazil, 19’)
Dir. Clari Ribeiro
Writ. Éri Sarmet
New Rio, 2054. In the future, many people are trans — but few are witches. Dahlia arrives to the city with a mission: to found the most powerful Clan that has ever existed and defeat the Order of Truth

 

SATURDAY 18 APRIL

12:00 Film Workshop w/ Louise Weard
12:00 Work Shorts + Q&A

No Brainer (2025, UK, 9’)
Dir. / Writ. Jordy Kaltz
Two friends hatch a plan to avoid going to work the next day.

4 Better Or 4 Worse (2025, Philippines, 18’)
Dir. / Writ. Ronjay-C Mendiola
When a trans woman is hospitalised in an emergency, her chosen family—Barbara, Tintoy, and Bianca—join a series of beauty pageants to raise money for her survival.

Medusa vs. the Men Who Want (Her) Head (2025, USA, 4’)
Dir. / Writ. Jennifer Marie Cella
A snapshot of Medusa and the strange men she must put up with–this time as she plans a bachelorette party while interviewing a drab party clown.

Booters Butch Bar & Diner (2026, UK, 11’)
Dir. Oran Keaveney
This documentary follows the butches behind Booters, a diner experience giving dyke masculinity a place to shine, strut and squirt whipped cream wherever hungry femmes will have it.

Bianca (2025, Scotland, 8’)
Dir. / Writ. Priscila Fróes
A trans woman blends documentary footage of her past as a sex worker in Porto Alegre and Rio de Janeiro with experimental visuals and sounds, transforming marginalised memories into a powerful act of cinematic reclamation.

Homemade Gatorade (2025, USA, 9’)
Dir. / Writ. Carter Amelia Davis
Having brewed four tubs of homemade Gatorade nobody seems to want, a woman embarks on a late night road trip to deliver the goods to a mysterious online buyer.

Vertical Storage Solutions for the Recently Bereaved (2025, USA, 12’)
Dir. / Writ. Simone Hile Bassett
Strapped for cash from healthcare costs, a trans woman takes a job testing an invasive, empathy-generating brain implant.

How to Find a Career That Loves You Back (2025, USA, 25’)
Dir. Ethernet Wang
Writ. Ethernet Wang & Ember Streshinsky
When two trans women are chosen as company representatives for a career fair, the trip ignites a fragile romance and budding doubts about their work for a defense-technology corporation.
14:40 Outerlands

PRE-FEATURE SHORT:

Three Act Structure (2025, UK, 3’)
Dir. Iona Rose Wheeler
Iona recounts and imagines discussing gender with doctors.
17:00 Feel Bad Shorts

CHASER (2026, UK, 10’)
Dir. / Writ. Jesse Williams
A trans woman on a night out crosses paths with a charming stranger, but he may not have her best interest at heart.

The Diary of Valeria (2025, USA, 7’)
Dir. / Writ. Athena Jey
Adapting the diary of a fictional trans woman, this experimental short navigates Valeria’s personal and existential anxieties about her body.

Sydney & Kim (2024, USA, 20’)
Dir. / Writ. Hazel Katz
While Sydney is recovering from a major surgery, her best friend Kim cares for her at a motel. As Kim’s flirtation with the motel manager escalates, Sydney’s resentment boils over.

In the Light of a Miracle (2025, USA, 14’)
Dir. / Writ. OJ Parker
Andre, a pretty boy with dreams of sainthood, is swept into a killing spree with Clint, a hot older voyeur, all while trying to cross the Texas border to evacuate from a hurricane.

I CAN BE KILLED (2025, USA, 17’)
Dir. / Writ. Horatio Allen
Not wanting to die in a body that repulses him, a trans college student resorts to the most extreme measures possible.

TransVengeance (2025, Canada, 5’)
Dir. / Writ. Kaye Adelaide
A trans woman dies on the operating table–but death is no match for a determined transsexual.

Foreign Bodies (2025, UK, 4’)
Dir. / Writ. Lysander Wong
A simple itch descends into an outbreak with many legs. Certain things will always find their way to the surface.

PHOBOSPLUNKER(2026, Ireland, 4’)
Dir. / Writ. Bee Mulvihill
A hungry inventor must traverse the inside of her own mind in order to track down the source of sudden, wormy hallucinations.

Tastes Like Pork (2023, USA, 11’)
Dir. Dante Dammit
Writ. Aurora Lowther, Mary McCarthy
An eager trans woman serves up her genitalia to a cannibalistic cis woman
19:40 Castration Movie Chapter iii. Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage + Q&A

PRE-FEATURE SHORT:

its nice and calm here for sure. theres so much i wish i could've done. but now all i can do is this :( (2025, USA, 3’)
Dir. / Writ. Orla Meyer & Alex Hickey
Two children find each other under strange circumstances.
22:40 Divine Hammer

PRE-FEATURE SHORT:

cortisol_inside cortisol_explosion excessive_cortisol cortisol_everywhere (2025, USA, 3’)
Dir. Ada Rook & Louise Weard
The no holds barred, violently exciting, black eye inducing music video for the song of the same name.

SUNDAY 19 APRIL

12:00 Belonging Shorts

b.longing (2025, Canada, 7’)
Dir. mystery byrd
Where do we belong; what do we be longing for? A dialogue and home video about belonging, from young people living in modern colonial society.

placeholder (2025, Ireland, 7’)
Dir. / Writ. Elisa Beli Borrelli
A young trans masc from a distant country finds a new home in Ireland, but the nation’s own problems quickly start to take a toll on him.

At Home (2025, USA, 12’) Dir. / Writ. Aubrey Pandori A 29-year-old trans musician and a 79-year-old lesbian archivist share stories of self-discovery, chosen family, and community building in the San Francisco Bay Area.

ANDRO (2025, Germany, Georgia, 27’)
Dir. / Writ. Dominik Gasser
Andro Dadiani’s political performances dissect state and church oppression in Georgia and conquer Tbilisi's urban spaces, but as a queer, non-binary protest artist, their identity remains a secret.

DRAGGED TO NOWHERE (2025, USA, 13’)
Dir. / Writ. Jordan Martin
Late Bloomer, a Native drag queen, falls into an unexpected nightmare. Caught in a cycle of dislocation and danger, Late Bloomer must find their way home through a world of shifting realities and sinister forces.

THE MARTIAL FOREST (2025, Taiwan, Colombia, 9’)
Dir. / Writ. J Triangular
In a dystopian present, exiled Kung Fu master Big Sister 13 leads a crew of trans and queer fighters to create the Martial Forest—a secret training ground where care is as powerful as combat.

The Guard (2025, UK, 11’)
Dir. / Writ. Patricia McCormick
Tasked with guarding his girlfriend’s family home during a wedding, a young man must protect the Indian wedding gifts of gold – though never predicted who he’d be guarding against.

Trans Heaven, Pennsylvania (2024, USA, 12’)
Dir. Hansen Bursic
In the early 2010s, hundreds of transgender women flocked to the small town of New Hope each year for a legendary weekend-long party – one that changed their lives, and the town, forever.
14:30 Queer as Punk

PRE-FEATURE SHORT:

Where Are You From? (2025, So-called Australia, 6’)
Dir. Stevie Vickery
Writ. Naavikaran
This doco-style music film introduces Melbourne based musician and debut filmmaker Naavikaran, and her South Asian futurist lore.
17:00 Camera Shorts + Q&A

RAT+CAMMIE=FOREVER (2025, Canada, 12’)
Dir. / Writ. Marissa Sean Cruz
Meeting on a digital self-help app and united by unrealized aspirations, a sentient webcam and an isolated ratgirl’s late night conversations develop into a profound connection.

Time Capsule (2024, USA, 5’)
Dir. / Writ. Constanze Brodbeck
Through interactions with a self who has yet to exist, Constanze creates a time capsule for herself in 10 years, exploring themes of aging, transition, and consciousness.

giiwe πρό bizhiw / bizhiw πρό giiwe (2025, Canada, 4’)
Dir. / Writ. mystery byrd
A home video, dedicated to the filmmaker’s baby.

Unhappy Sexy Girl (2025, Canada, 7’)
Dir. / Writ. Cassidy Civiero
Through revisiting achingly vulnerable phone videos, the filmmaker revisits his life pre-transition, when he could only cope by constantly using marijuana and sexualising himself for others.

Trans American (2025, USA, 11’)
Dir. JudebirdBR> A diary film captures a group of trans friends visiting a fair after an anti-ICE protest in North Carolina.

Emile is Missing (2025, Australia, 16’)
Dir. Sam Carson & Félix Morreo Zisserman
Writ. Sam Carson & Olive Bilic
Following the disappearance of her girlfriend, a trans filmmaker discovers EMILECAM, a 24-hour livestream which had been devoted to spying on her.

How to Mosh (2024, USA, 4’)
Dir. / Writ. Ross Jeffers
Reflections on toxic masculinity catapult the filmmaker through webcam diaries, VRChat and a brief guide on how to handle yourself in a mosh.

Christ Complex (2025, USA, 5’)
Dir. / Writ. Constanze Brodbeck
Constanze examines her relationship to Christ, community, and embodiment through a series of phone diaries.

Blair’s Craft Projects (2024, USA, 2’)
Dir. / Writ. Jack Warren
In October of 2023, an influencer disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland while shooting a DIY craft video. A year later this footage was found.

Vollúpya (2024, Brazil, 20’)
Dir. Éri Sarmet & Jocimar Dias Jr.
Writ. Hadija Chalupe & Éri Sarmet
An intergalactic traveller seeking traces of his ancestors discovers VHS tapes filmed in the queer nightclub Vollúpya, which transport him back to the dance floors of 1990s Brazil.
20:00 Puppygirl (closing film) + Awards + Q&A

PRE-FEATURE SHORT

Yeah No Yeah(2025, USA, 16’)
Dir. / Writ. Olive Autumn
Wandering through Chicago's bird sanctuaries and each other’s mismatched memories, three ex-lovers try to piece together the reasons their relationship really fell apart.

 

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