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Transgender Film Festivals

 

Please email us if we have missed your festival!

 

Kiel Transgender Film Festival

Kiel, Germany | Late April

Transgender film festival staged by restaurant and cinema TraumGmb.

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Translations: Seattle’s Transgender Film Festival

Seattle, Washington, USA | Early May

Groundbreaking film festival that provides the Pacific Northwest with a venue for films by, for, and about transgender people and the issues facing the transgender community. Director: Sam Berliner.

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TranScreen: Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival

Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Late May

Biannual film festival that seeks to showcase transgender experiences beyond those that fit into a binary interpretation of gender—”a gender stretch to the max”!

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The 519 Annual Trans Film Fest

Toronto, Ontario | Mid-September

The 519 Annual Trans Film Fest is a grassroots community event for trans people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds to share their work.

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San Francisco Transgender Film Festival

San Francisco, California, USA | Early November

SFTFF screens films that promote the visibility of transgender and gender variant people and challenge the mainstream media’s negative stereotypes of our communities. Director: Shawna Virago.

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tilde: Melbourne Trans and Gender Diverse Film Festival

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Early November

Community-based, international film festival that showcases and supports the work of TGD filmmakers and artists, and works that have TGD content, for TGD people, allies, and the wider community. Directors: Louise Malcolm & Cal Andrews.

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Trans Fest Stockholm

Stockholm, Sweden | Late November

Our goal was to create a free trans community film festival that would be a positive, empowering safer space for trans & gender-diverse people & allies. Since then, our plans & ambitions have grown & we have branched out into different community events & activities. Directors: Love Elfvelin, Noah Elstad, Alex Fridunger, Cat McIlroy, & Jojo Stenberg.

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TransFormations: Trans Film Festival Berlin

Berlin, Germany | Late November

Amid all the whitewashing of queer, trans* and inter histories in mainstream media and institutions, we want to celebrate the legacies and visions of Black, Indigenous, PoC, poor and working class, disabled folks and migrants within the make-up of queer, trans* and inter, pasts, presents and futurities.

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