Transfem Short Film Night
Transfem Short Film Night will take place in Černá díra in Kino Art in Brno! The event starts at 6:30 pm, the screening is 1h, 15 min long with a 10 min break in the middle.
The event is in English. It is free to attend. Please come early just in case too many people come, there is no reservation system.
Please read the content warnings at the end of the post! One of the films contains flashing lights, you will be warned before the film and given space to leave the room (and told when to come back)!
The programme:
1. All Those Sensations in My Belly (2020)
Animated short film, 13min
Country: Croatia, Portugal
Created by: Marko Dješka markodjeska.com
While transitioning from male to female gender, Matia struggles with finding a genuine intimate relationship with a heterosexual man.
2. Camp Trans (2016)
Short Documentary, 6min
Country: USA
Created by: Elliot Montaque & Rhys Ernst elliotmontague.com rhysernst.com
CAMP TRANS is a portrait of trans activists Leslie Feinberg and Riki Anne Wilchins who lead a movement to end a trans-exclusionary women's music festival. Part of the award-winning webseries We've Been Around.
3. Vapor Trails (2023)
Short film, 11min
Country: USA
Created by: Willow Skye-Biggs willowskyebiggs.com indigoelsewhere.com
It is 1997 amidst the backdrop of distant violence, two displaced trans-lesbian lovers find transcendence through connection.
4. THESE KIDS DON'T GET IT, MA (2024)
Experimental short film, 6min
Country: USA
Created by: June Jung @mosh.monk moshmonk.com
Trans woman attempts to translate a poem to her mother over the phone. Film consists of their phone call between the two women and the poem with various backgrounds.
– 10 minute break –
5. Scout's Honor (2023)
Short Documentary, 11min
Country: USA
Created by: Benett Holgerson benettholgerson.com
In this meditation on trans sisterhood and Midwestern ennui, two tight-knit roommates (Mila and Fenyx) get ready for their night out. As they inject hormones, bicker, put on makeup, and smoke a little too much weed, we get an intimate glimpse into their loving—yet flawed—relationship.
6. Honeymoon (2023)
Short film, 25min
Country: Greece
Created by: Alkis Papastathopoulos
Sandra is travelling with Fay, helping her catch a bus that will take her out of the country, when a transphobic attack leaves them both stranded in the middle of nowhere. In the midst of their frantic road trip, they realise that now is their last chance to be honest about each other’s feelings.
CONTENT WARNINGS:
All Those Sensations in My Belly - transphobia, sexual harassment
Camp Trans - discussion of transphobia
THESE KIDS DON’T GET IT, MA - !!! Seizure warning - Flashing images
Scout’s Honor - needles, drug use (only weed)
Honeymoon - transphobia
