Transgender

Kiki  Kiki  P
Sara Jordenö
Sweden / USA / 2016 / Color / 94mins

In New York City, LGBTQ youth-of-color gather out on the Christopher Street Pier, practicing a performance-based artform, Ballroom, which was made famous in the early 1990s by Madonna’s music video “Vogue” and the documentary “Paris Is Burning.” Twenty-five years after these cultural touchstones, a new and very different generation of LGBTQ youth have formed an artistic activist subculture, named the Kiki Scene. KIKI follows seven characters from the Kiki community over the course of four years, using their preparations and spectacular performances at events known as Kiki balls as a framing device.

Out Run  Out Run  P
S. Leo Chiang / Johnny Symons
USA / 2016 / Color / 75mins

As leader of the world’s only LGBT political party, Bemz Benedito dreams of being the first transgender woman in the Philippine Congress. But in a predominantly Catholic nation, rallying for LGBT representation in the halls of Congress is not an easy feat. Bemz and her eclectic team of queer political warriors must rethink traditional campaign strategies to amass support from unlikely places. Taking their equality campaign to small-town hair salons and regional beauty pageants, the activists prove to the Filipino electorate that it’s time to take the rights of LGBT people seriously.

Made in Bangkok  Made in Bangkok  PG15
Flavio Florencio
Mexico / Germany / 2015 / Color / 75mins

Morgana is a transgender soprano with a relentless determination to fight against social stigma and family prejudice to the attainment of a universal milestone, the self-assertion of herself as a human being with dignity socially recognized. To this end, she embarks on an odyssey with lights and shadows to try to build an identity persecuted throughout her life, an identity made in Bangkok.

Real Boy  Real Boy  PG12
Shaleece Haas
USA / 2016 / Color / 72mins

Real Boy is the coming-of-age story of Bennett Wallace, a transgender teenager on a journey to find his voice—as a musician, a friend, a son, and a man. As he navigates the ups and downs of young adulthood, he works to gain the love and support of his mother, who has deep misgivings about her child’s transition. Along the way, Bennett forges a powerful friendship with his idol, Joe Stevens, a celebrated transgender musician with his own demons to fight.

Phantom Jenny  Phantom Jenny  PG15
Makita Kazuomi
Japan / 2015 / Color / 29mins

Mito, who is MTF, has a feeling of phantom penis erection following her reassignment surgery…something she is unable to share even with her FTM lover, Shiro.

SHe  SHe  R
Kuo Hsin-Ying
Taiwan / 2016 / Color / 35mins

Chiku, a transwoman and Wei, a lesbian, got “legally” married in Taiwan in December 2012. The documentary shows the subtle moments of their daily marriage life, through which the imagined voyeuristic spectacle is turned into everyday tactics. It highlights the gender fluidity that cannot be fixed onto heterosexual framework.