Sunday 21 May – 19:10-20:50 – Kriterion 2Click here to order tickets. With aftertalk by Jonah Lamers Gloria Allen, a 73-year-old trans woman based in Chicago, Illinois, shares her life and recollections of growing up on the south side with an extremely supportive family, her childhood realization that she was a girl, time spent in…
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Colors of Tobi
Sunday 21 May – 17:00h – Kriterion 2Click here to order tickets. Tobias, a seventeen-year-old transgender boy, is waiting to begin his medical transition. During this frustrating period, he fights for acceptance in the northeast of Hungary. Alexa Bakony | Hungary | 2021 | 81 min | Hungarian spoken | English subtitles | Documentary There…
UÝRA – The Rising Forest
Juliana Curi | Brazil, USA | 2022 | 72 min | Portuguese spoken | English subtitles | Documentary Uýra, a trans-indigenous artist travels through the Amazon forest on a journey of self-discovery using performance art and ancestral messages to teach indigenous youth and confront structural racism and transphobia in Brazil. Watch the trailer.
Flores del Otro Patio
Sunday 21 May – 15:00h – Kriterion 2Click here to order tickets.Shown before UÝRA – The Rising Forest. In the Colombian Caribbean, a group of queer activists practice a militancy that challenges heteropatriarchal norms while engaging in other causes to collectively fight against the various social injustices that plague the region. When the management of…
Met Zonder Ballen – with aftertalk
Sunday 21 May 12:30 – 14:30h – JACO Candid portrait of a trans son (Flip Zonne Zuijderland) and his mother about his search for gender and identity and her response as a parent. A moving and hilariously honest film, based on the successful theater play with the same name. This screening has an after talk with…
LA Queenciañera
Bamby Salcedo organizes her 50th birthday celebration attended by people significant to her life. As she prepares for the event, Bamby travels through LA county and watches her life go past. Pedro Peira | Spain, USA | 2021 | 85 min | Esperanto & English spoken | English subtitles | Documentary From the streets where…
To the Future, with Love
Saturday 20 May 21:10h – Kriterion 2Click here to order tickets.Shown together with LA Queenciañera A nonbinary teenager, Hunter “Pixel” Jimenez, is caught between the expectations of their Guatemalan immigrant family and their dreams of living happily ever after with their long-distance boyfriend. Shaleece Haas | USA | 2021 | 7 min | English spoken…
Zuhur’s Daughters
Saturday 20 May 19:10h – Kriterion 2Click here to order tickets. Aftertalk by Jinda from the Koerdisch Queer feminist community A compassionate and non-judgmental film, that chronicles four deeply complex and life-changing years in the lives of siblings Lohan and Samar, two young transgender women who fled Syria with their family of fourteen and are now…