2026 Festival

Objectionable Fruit (Hogan Seidel, Gabby Follett, United States, 15m)
Objectionable Fruit is an experimental documentary short examining the Ginkgo tree—a living fossil celebrated for its resilience and unique capacity to change sexes, defying human-imposed binaries.

Understanding Myself as an Amphibian (May Caroline Matchim, United States, 1h 2m)
Understanding Myself as an Amphibian is a Queer ecology feature documentary exploring sexual diversity in wildlife, drawing connections between incredible species and the diector’s own journey. The film is an enlightening reflection on wildlife and the influences affecting our understanding of animal and human behaviour.

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Burning of a Family Tree (Alison Mattingly, United States, 12m):
When Eden returns home to their estranged family after the death of their abusive father, they are forced to confront their traumatic past… and their father’s reanimated corpse.
CW: Religious psychosis

The Dysphoria (Kylie Aoibheann, Australia, 13m):
A trans woman performs a satanic ritual to get a vagina, but unwittingly invites a demonic presence into her home which demands a terrible sacrifice.

Autonecrophile: What It Is To Be An Exquisite Corpse (Maxine Sizemore, United States, 11m):
Autonecrophile is an experimental horror short told from the perspective of a conscious dead body who gains the memories of the necrophiliac ex boyfriend who killed her, finding she died long before she wound up in her coffin.
CW: Cancer, necrophilia

Dahlia has a Phobia (Lenox Myette, United States, 14m):
Two women retreat for a quiet weekend to salvage their unraveling relationship. But when one’s crippling fear of scarecrows resurfaces, their fragile dynamic begins to fracture.
CW: Relational abuse

God Hates a Coward (David Leo, United States, 11m):
A young transgender man goes into a psychosexual spiral after meeting the object of his desires: an aging punk vocalist. CW: Flashing lights, sexual violence, transphobia

Resurrect Me as a Parasite (Lou Lou Sainsbury & Gabi Dao, Netherlands, 10m):
A vampiric trio facilitates the transition of a new host across a former limestone quarry and the sacred mountain grotto of Mary Magdalene, troubling the binaries of life, death, gender and parasitism.

Trans Panic! (Gren Bee, United States, 1h 33m)
A Christian trans hyperpop musician teams up with an intersex incel filmmaker on a mad plan involving performative terrorism, career-launching martyrdom, and a chaotic love triangle that might include JD Vance. This film asks: What if your intersectionality intersected with evil and made you suck a lot?
CW: Flashing lights

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Buffalo 10 (Trisha Pickelhaupt, United States, 12m):
A trans woman aching for the simplicity of her upbringing moves back to Buffalo from NYC, where she gets asked out at the local bowling alley.

Wall Udder (Alexandra Hayden, United States , 8m):
A dissatisfied woman confronts repressed feelings of malaise after her partner comes home smelling like milk.

Devils in the Bush (Juliet Belisario, Canada, 8m):
Following the disappearance of her girlfriend, a trans filmmaker discovers EmileCam, a 24-hour livestream devoted to spying on her.

La Perla Victoria, Desde un Corazón Trans (Sol Jimenez Palacios, Devyn Galindo, Victoria Castro, United States, 9m):
La Perla Victoria resists narratives that reduce trans migrants to mere victims. Instead, it offers a portrait of trans life that is tender, political, and profoundly human, rooted in the belief that telling our stories is itself a form of liberation. CW: Descriptions of gun violence and assault, descriptions imprisonment at the US border

Saved Me (TJ Gascho, United States, 3m):
Love knows no bounds! A Seattle film screening comes to life as Cupid’s arrow flies off the screen and into the crowd!

Sword Over the Door (Alec Mazzoli, United States, 14m):
Four friends playing a tabletop roleplaying game slowly realize that something is wrong.

Zombie Butterflies (Pê Moreira, Thomas Argos, Brazil, 17m):
In this romcom stained with Brazilian queerness, João used to think the butterflies in his stomach were dead. When he falls in love with Lucas, his best friend, something weird starts happening in his belly. Maybe he has zombie butterflies.

Motherhood (Ava Corder, United States, 12m):
A pregnant trans woman in the heat of active labor battles strict medical protocols and her family’s doubts to have a natural birth. CW: Blood/gore

If I’m Here It Is By Mystery (Clari Ribeiro, Brazil, 20m)
Short: New Rio, 2054. Renowned witch Dahlia arrives at the port with a mission: to found the most powerful Clan that has ever existed and thus defeat the Order of Truth. In the future, many people are trans — but only a few are witches. CW: Stabbing of a trans woman, blood/gore

Jucks (Raef Van Putten, United States, 1h 9m)
Feature: Set in Denver City, 2064 AD, JUCKS is an experimental sci-fi silent film. It follows a haunted protagonist who enters a dystopian landscape lorded by an omniscient radio frequency known as Jucks, and saturated with a hallucinogenic substance. Jules searches for one thing: Gold. CW: Flashing lights, blood/gore,

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Ahyoka (Schon ᎤᎶᎩᎳ Duncan, United States, 13m):
A portrait of Ahyoka Youngdeer, Cherokee culture bearer, teacher, and two-spirit activist. Weaving her own life with a traditional Cherokee story about a crooked-face boy, Ahyoka traces how exclusion was never a Cherokee value and reminds us what it truly means to be a Keetoowah person.

ANADROMOUS (Ari Grubb, United States, 5m):
When they find themselves evolving out of their aquarium home, two fish set off on a musical journey of self-acceptance and queer joy, and find community in a freaky fish gay bar in the deepest depths of the ocean.

Bright Eye (Rio Miller, Canada, 21m):
Callie Jones is not your average IT tech. They’re a bio-hacker, living in the cracks of their dystopian society and illegally hacking bionic implants. Careful. Methodical. Invisible… until one wrong phone call exposes them.
CW: Flashing lights

Eyeliner (Aisha Boudjillouli, United Kingdom, 8m):
Nina and her best friend Lily decide to steal an eyeliner, hoping that this will be their key to womanhood. When they’re given wildly different receptions, Nina discovers her journey as a trans girl might not be so easy.
CW: Transphobia

I HAVE BECOME (Lee J Holoubek, Canada, 1m):
A paint-on-paint + risograph queer experimental animation about a transgender man’s relationship with his body, younger self, and future self to show the grotesque beauty of tearing oneself apart to live truthfully.
CW: Flashing lights

Las Cosas Que Brillan (Kristal Sotomayor, United States, 11m):
A curious trans mermaid defies her mother’s warnings to venture up to the surface, only to discover the world above is not what she dreamt.

Promise Me (Gilda Panizza, Italy, 3m):
“Promise me” is a spell, a call and response where the one who asks and the one who answers blur into each other.

SunKissed Sapphics (Jennifer Marie Cella, United States, 8m):
Three transgender lesbians, all represented as endangered species, happen to meet in a hotel lobby. The trio embark on a passionate and psychedelic odyssey across the south Jersey boardwalk.

Dyson (Clac, Fara Renaud, Belgium, 14m):
Some people seek diamonds, Roxane just wants a fancy vacuum cleaner. With Trinity and Julia’s help, she is set to make her wettest dream come true.

Cockroach (Justice Maya Singleton, Liliana Padilla, United States, 22m):
A black transgender man plans to exchange sex for top surgery money with an older gay man until his night hook up turns into a hunt for a cockroach who inspires him to open his heart and conquer his fears.

Not Exactly Strangers (Ryan Rox, United States, 15m):
A tipsy hookup between a Latine trans woman and a rough-edged skater boy from her past becomes a comedic, yet intimate deep-dive into post-surgical sex, lingering history, and a body she’s still learning to celebrate.

pounded (Lis Walter, Germany, 10m):
Pounded explores what it means to be treated like a juicy piece of meat and why, for its protagonists, this does not equal objectification.

The Duties of a Lighthouse Keeper (Rory Midhani, Germany, 8m):
This film follows the daily life of an isolated seaman, all alone on a hard, hard rock, going about his duties whilst yearning for the touch of his fellow man. Is there more to this life than servicing the buoys?

Touching Ugliness (Ultra, Brazil, 15m):
With an entirely trans cast, Ugliness is a film-poetry about faith, scars and the beauty of what cannot be saved. CW: Flashing lights, suspension play

In Another Life (Tristan Blue, United States, 9m):
An elder queer hermit searches through coastal soundscapes in pursuit of a mysterious cave they believe will allow them to commune with a past self. CW: Flashing lights

My 50 Minute Breath-Hold Speedrun Challenge (Emery Joan, United States, 2m):
“I try to hold my breath for 50 minutes in real time as quickly as I can.”

giiwe πρό bizhiw / bizhiw πρό giiwe (mystery byrd, Canada, 3m):
“A home video, dedicated to my baby.”

b.longing (mystery byrd, Canada, 7m):
A dialogue and poetic home video about belonging, from young people living in modern capitalist colonial society.

Somewhere within me (Andoeni Padilla, Mexico, 18m):
A story of a friendship told through childhood archival material. They try to answer who they are, who they wish to be, and inevitably, they turn to who they have been.

Unhappy Sexy Girl (Cassidy Civiero, Canada, 7m):
A transmasc filmmaker revisits his past as an unhappy sexy girl coping through constant marijuana and sexual objectification.

Vollúpya (Éri Sarmet, Jocimar Dias Jr., Brazil, 20m):
In a post-apocalyptic future, an intergalactic explorer lands at an abandoned museum on a quest to find traces of his long-lost ancestors, and ends up being teleported to the dance floor of a Brazilian queer nightclub in the 1990s. CW: Flashing lights

Mascott (Marilyne Lamontagne, Canada, 13m):
A struggling transgender actor lands a bear mascot role on a children’s TV show, but as fame, hyper-masculinity, and public expectations close in, the bear suit refuses to come off.

As the time might be now (Noah Mancini, Zuma Link, Brazil, 16m):
On a feverish night, Dama da Noite crosses the city carrying a deck of cards that could change her fate. Between picturesque bars, collapsing apartments, and unlikely encounters, her path crosses with Onça, a young man adrift through the night.

How to Become Transgender In Order to Dodge the American Military Draft (Dustin Wilson V, Joschua Stice, United States, 6m):
Follows the creation and distribution of a flyer, instructing the residents of Seattle on how to dodge the draft.

How to Find a Career That Loves You Back (Ethernet Wang, United States, 25m):
Khloe, an isolated young trans woman, works for Scryr, a defense-technology startup that uses AI to militarize surveillance. Khloe questions the violence of her work, and as intrusive thoughts become intolerable, a decision presents itself.

How to Find a Career That Loves You Back (LUI NASCIMENTO, Brazil, 15m):
Lolo is a young non-binary person, influencer, and music video director who works as a delivery rider around the city. After receiving a mysterious delivery, strange things begin. A tropical queer sci-fi through the streets of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

They Persist (Lachlan Salvestro, Australia, 8m):
A short film about the forever stagnant versions of ourselves that exist in the hearts and minds of the people we’ve left behind, as we grow and move on with our lives.

While construction is in progress, shops will remain open (Mordred Guadagno, France, 2m):
Between 2021 and 2025, a city was under massive construction preparing for a new streetcar line. As work finally come to an end, a parallel construction of the self is grappled with.

Castration Movie Chapter iii. Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage (Louise Weard, United States, 2h 30m)
Castration Movie is a multi-part postmodern epic. In Chapter iii., a standalone film, Izzy (Avalon Fast) does everything in her power to stop her partner from transitioning.

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Happy New Year, Ms. Luna (CELESTE DIEP, Australia, 17m):
Luna, a young transfeminine woman, attends her family’s annual Chinese New Year gathering for the first time since her transition.

The Muscle Knows Better Than To Wait (Erica Monde, United Kingdom, 4m):
A portrait of an LGBT weightlifting club in Sheffield, exploring the embodiment of queer and trans power.

They Persist (L cedeño miller, United States, 11m):
At a ball hosted by the world’s first drag queen, the category is: run or resist.

Subject to Change (Jade P Swayne, United States, 27m):
An experimental documentary exploring the ever changing mindset of a Black trans non-binary individual considering and reconsidering gender affirming care. CW: Discussion of medical racism

Deathbed (CW, United States, 22m):
A young woman encounters a ghost, and her fixation on the experience begins to unravel her toxic friend group.

May Everything Trans/form (Frankie Murphy, United States, 2m):
A lo-fi Neruda poem.