Divert, Delight, Defy: Animating Trans Identities (18)
Exploring transgender identities through animation, this programme showcases and celebrates the vibrant spectrum of gender identity, the necessity of community and found family, and the urgent need for trans voices to be heard.
This programme contains flashing images.
This screening carries the following trigger warnings for content:
Sexual assault, Blood, Abuse, Suicide (attempt), Transphobia and transmisogyny, Homophobia , Body dysphoria, Pornographic content and nudity, Violence, Racism
Trigger warning content categories used are courtesy of the Film and TV Charity’s advice: https://bit.ly/3EX7TA8
Date & Time: | Fri, 17 Nov (18:30) - Fri 17 Nov (20:00) |
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Approx. Runtime: | 90 mins |
Certification: | 18 |
Venue: | Odeon Screen 8 |
Tickets: | BUY PASS |
Films in this programme:
Populous feat. M¥SS KETA & Kenjii – HOUSE OF KETA
Music video for HOUSE OF KETA, a song born the day after Pride 2019 in Miland and the result of a collaboration between Populous and several other creatives. The music video was created during lockdown and inspired by voguing choreography.
Director: Emanuele Kabu
Year: 2020
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Les lèvres gercées
In a kitchen, a mother and a child struggle to establish dialogue.
Director: Kelsi Phung, Fabien Corre
Year: 2018
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Will Flowers?
A late night message from their kokum causes Kay to envision the generative impact they can have in the world as a trans person.
Director: Kay Chan
Year: 2021
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Club Quarantine
On the first day of the Covid-19 lockdown 4 friends hung out on a video chat. That chat somehow turned into a Nightly-Online-Queer-Dance-Party with over 60,000 followers from all corners of the world.
Director: Angie Bird
Year: 2020
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All Those Sensations in my Belly
While transitioning from male to female gender, Matia struggles with finding a genuine intimate relationship with a heterosexual man.
Director: Marko Dješka
Year: 2020
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SISTER
Hand-drawn animation. A personal expression from a period of disorientation: the euphoria experienced when connecting with myself and/or a lover, & the dysphoria experienced when searching for both.
Director: David Wilson
Year: 2019
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Grown Up Man
A dressing room, a mirror, here lipstick and shimmering varnish intertwine. He is determined and whatever anyone may have said to him, tonight he will be the most beautiful.
Director: Noémie Blondel
Year: 2018
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FlyHole
In this dual projection slide show of collaged imagery, FlyHole tells the story of a housefly who transitions into a man in order to cruise gay bars. Text and images are appropriated from the March 1985 issue of the adult, gay digest magazine, Manscape.
Director: Malic Amalya
Year: 2017
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Coming Out
“Coming Out” is a tender stop-motion animation about identity, love, and giant monsters. Endorsed officially by Toho, the studio responsible for the iconic creature, this short brings awareness and support for LGBTQ stories into the Godzilla canon.
Director: Cressa Maeve Beer
Year: 2020
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Récit De Soi
While non-binary representations are rare, Lou talks
about their relationship to gender, clothes, and other markers.
Director: Géraldine Charpentier
Year: 2018
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ADORABLE
ADORABLE is an animated film that presents a journey of a queer person where he explores his sexuality and the queer community; the film illustrates an observation of the modern queer society and fantasies toward the freedom of gender fluidity. This work is to reflect the real situation of the community where discriminations, freedom, and love coexist.
Director: Cheng-Hsu Chung
Year: 2018
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HOLE
Mo is an adult with Autism Spectrum Disorder. They spend a lot of time in their brain. Today, a
hole started following them.
Director: Gil Goletski
Year: 2018
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The Sketch
Arriving in Paris, I start learning two languages, French and drawing. In an artist’s studio, I meet Linda Demorrir, a live
model. Like me, she is transgender and an immigrant. As I draft her outlines, it is also myself that I learn to draw.
Director: Tomas Cali
Year: 2023
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BLUSH – An Extraordinary Voyage
For Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his life, he’s
wearing makeup in public.
Director: Iiti Yli-Harja
Year: 2022
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