Transgender FilmFestival www.transcreen.org

_ 12 mei Ketelhuis / Filmhuis Cavia Amsterdam

1 For program schedule and general info, see page 14/15 or check www.transcreen.org for more details and updates! Welcome!

We are delighted to see you at the second mega edition of TranScreen; a filmfestival strongly connected to the Dutch and international trans/gender/queer community. Everybody is welcome to view cinematographic works from a transgender perspective. TranScreen is for ladies, gentlemen and... for those who see more than simply just two genders.

This year our festival is spread across two cinemas: Cinema het Ketelhuis and Filmhuis Cavia. They have separate ticket systems, so make sure to order your tickets at the right location - it’s an adventure!

In our quest to find a nice blend of trans* related films, we noticed a changing media landscape and a rise of professional ability among trans* filmmakers themselves. We found films from all over the world, even the Netherlands! Meandering through our 34 filmslots are thematic programs, such as: World Reports, Feeling Community, Mixed Abilities, STOP Pathologization!, To see & be seen and Unambiguously Intersex.

Of course we are incredibly grateful to our festival partners (we are so poly!), sponsors, volunteers, Ketelhuis & Cavia, IHLIA, filmmakers, and our volunteers: each of you are invaluable to making this festival happen, big thanks to you all. Now, we invite you to come experience arthouse films, road movies, documentaries, blockbusters, experimental animation, porn... and more. Enjoy diversity, drag, gender, multiple parties; experience a genderstretch to the max!

The festival collective in alphabetical order: Eliza Steinbock, Femke Hurkmans, Jiro Ghianni, Karola Einecke, Lara Borg, Maja Mirkovic, Mijke van der Drift.

Eliza Femke Jiro Karola Lara Maja Mijke

2 3 Wednesday may 8th Thursday may 9th

Opening night! The TranScreen collective welcomes you and presents a chosen On Ascension Day we offer you a fantastic program. We start with a workshop selection of short films and an opening speech by Sass Rogando Sasot, to inspire in de Peper, then, full of inspiration, you bike to the Cavia or het Ketelhuis. us all. Afterwards you can lounge at the Ketelhuis and from 22:00h on we greet For a short program as World Reports or Unambiguously Intersex, where you you warmly on our Opening Gala, hosted by WTF Wednesday, at Vrankrijk. get lots of movies for the price of one.

19:00-20:30, • Ketelhuis 1 • ¤ 9,- 13:00-16:00 • Peper OT301 17:00-18:30 • Ketelhuis 2 • ¤ 9,- Bob s Favorites / Shortfilm compilation Overtoom 301, Amsterdam Feeling Community 1 Free entrance I’ve only just begun am I’ve only just begun The queer revolution must come now. Workshop: Thick Relations: E., Russia, 2012, 7’, music video, digital, Ragingly beautiful and empowering story collaborative filmmaking no dialogue about Venuz Vulgar and his friends on practices The queer revolution must come now. their way to St. Petersburg, Russia. Over What you looking at? Free and open to the public. Registration Ragingly beautiful and empowering 60 people were involved in this inde- necessary (up to 20 participants): email story about Venuz Vulgar and his friends pendent production, a real social media Eliza Steinbock [email protected] on their way to St. Petersburg. Over 60 sensation. La de Úrsula In this interactive workshop jules rosskam people were involved in this independent ------One stormy night, Ursula runs through and Alex Samets will share with you some production, a real social media sensation. a lush forest. She stops at the gate of an of the methods they used in crafting their ------La Santa (The Blessed) old cemetery and breaks the chains that latest feature. An intersex girl does not want to be con- stop her from entering. She is holding a Thick Relations fined to gender standards. Dutch premiere. shovel with her right hand. In her left one jules rosskam, USA, 2012, 85’, ------a heavy suitcase... documentary, digital, english dialogue, ------no sub. The Confession of Father Thick Relations is a Chosen Family affair John Thomas What you looking at? and an Anti-RomCom. The film subverts When you’re a penis and a priest, it’s What happens if a woman with a head- romantic tropes and opts to trace the bound to cause some, uhm, inner conflict. scarf and a transvestite get stuck in an ways that chosen family arrangements In the heart of the Australian outback elevator together? Beauty. embrace a different logic of love, alliance, Father John Thomas’s filthy fantasies get ------and identification. It is an ambiguous stimulated by Miss Beaver Eater. cinematic space where everyday tasks, ------So Pomo dinner conversations, and sexual themes Ready to sing? It’s a queer hip-hop video! all run parallel in an open and unresolved The Hawker So Pomo is a music video response to fashion. Inside of this current, the film’s Writer Elisha Lim recounts their earliest homo/transphobia, a surreal fantasy central characters are permitted to express memory of meeting another trans person world where queers take over and love in incalculable ways. Thick Relations in this delightful animation. celebrate our fabulous lives! is a celebration of a queer counterpublic that embraces desire/pleasure as its primary, orienting ethos. With Q&A.

22:00-02:00 • Vrankrijk, Spuistraat 216, Amsterdam Opening gala 4 5 Thursday may 9th Thursday may 9th

17:00-18:45 • Ketelhuis 3 • ¤ 9,- 17:00-18:30 • Cavia • ¤ 4,- 19:00-20:30 • Ketelhuis 2 • ¤ 9,- 19:00-20:30 • Ketelhuis 3 • ¤ 9, Feeling Community 3 h World reports 1 Unambiguously Intersex 1 Shorts 1: Gaining Life Experience ketelhuis 3eling community Queer Umbrella Recht Absurd La Santa (The Blessed) What you looking at? Rosa Middleton, UK, 2010, 2’, animation, Tom Weller, Germany, 2012, 5’, doc, DVD, Mauricio Lopez Fernandez, Chili, 2012, Synopsis: see wednesday digital, english dialogue, no sub. english/german dialogue, english sub. 14’, fiction, digital, spanish dialogue, ------An animated celebration of the varying Four transgender people from different english sub, Dutch premiere. definitions of the word “Queer” countries talk to each other about the laws An intersex girl does not want to be Lean like a chicha ------for trans* citizens. With Q&A. confined to gender standards. Meet Chicha, a lesbian chola fashionista ------in this hilarious hip-hop parody. TRANS ------Chris Arnold, USA, 2011, 93’, documen- La Identidad de Justicia: tary, DVD, english dialogue, no sub. Mujeres Trans en Cochabamba Bella Maddo TRANS is an extraordinary documentary (The Identity of Justice: Trans Women A super-camp-parody of the bourgeois life. feature about men and women, and all in Cochabamba), Lucas Waldron, Bolivia, The ENTIRE cast is transgender (men, the variations in between. Inspired by the 2012, 14’, documentary, Blu-ray, spanisch woman & children) portraying NON- story of Dr. Christine McGinn and her dialogue, english sub. transgender characters. work as a transgender surgeon, TRANS The political struggles of trans women La Santa ------provides an up-close and personal vision in Cochamba come alive in this powerful into the lives, loves, and challenges of a documentary with themes of discrimination, ------So pomo remarkable cast. Stories of confusion and HIV, and sex work. Synopsis: see wednesday courage, excitement and emotion that ------Finish Line ------have never been told, until now. To any- Gina Pei Chi Chen, USA 2011, 13’, fiction, one who has ever looked in a mirror and I controversy Blu-ray, english dialogue, no sub. La Victoria de Úrsula wondered “who they really are?” TRANS Antonio Prisco, Italy 2012, 3’, experimental, Angeni, a runner, is forced to undergo the One stormy night, Ursula runs through a asks another question: “are you brave digital, Italian dialogue, english sub. sex verification test due to her masculine forest. She stops at the gate of an cemetery. enough to find out?” A violent and personal view of the actual appearance and exceptional performance. She is holding a shovel and a suitcase... Italian social and religious mood. A raw Tormented by this, she’s made to believe ------accusation against homo- and transphobia. her body is abnormal. ------Das Licht ist weder richtig noch unrichtig Waria Zone Orchids, my intersex adventure A young transman expects the visit of his Kiwa & Traje Toomistu, Indonesia/ Phoebe Hart, Australia, 60’, documen- parents who he hasn’t seen since he star- Estonia, 2011, 58’, documentary, DVD, tary, DigiBeta, english dialogue, no sub. ted testosterone. English/Indonesian, english sub. This film follows a road trip with Phoebe ------The film explores transgender people in and her sister, Bonnie, heading off around TRANS Indonesia and the relation between gender Queensland to meet other intersex people. Sam identity and freedom. The male-to-female The fascination lies in the internal journey After being bullied for ‘pretending’ to be a transwomen who are known by the word and the development of the sisters’ rela- boy, Sam escapes in the fields surrounding ‘waria’ (wanita, woman + pria, man) are a tionship (Bonnie is also intersex), their their house where he is forced to spend well-known phenomenon in this country relationship with their parents and how the night. with the world’s largest Muslim commu- Phoebe’s husband, James, deals with the ------nity. Traditionally, variations in gender pressure. An unexpectedly tender explora- identity have been considered to be holy tion of how families adapt. Lee in many Indonesian cultures, but today Martial arts and transgender issues collide the warias have been relegated to an in the story of a warrior who must battle out- outlaw zone on the outskirts of society. side the gender binary to gain self-respect. 6 7 Thursday may 9th Thursday may 9th

19:00-20:30 • Cavia • ¤ 4,- 21:00-22:45 • Ketelhuis 3 • ¤ 9,- 21:00-22:30 • Ketelhuis 3 • ¤ 9,- 21:00-22:15 • Cavia • ¤ 4,- World Reports 2 Feeling community 2 Mixed Abilities 1 World reports 3

Transformation Like Rats leaving a sinking One Zero One - the story of Olha pra mim de novo Vahid Vahed, Iran, 2011, 18’, documen- ship Cybersissy & BayBjane (Look at me again) tary, digital, persian, English sub. Dutch Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany, 2012, 24’, Tim Lienhard, Germany, 2012, 90’, Kiko Golfman/Claudia Priscilla, Brasil, premiere. exp. documentary, Blu-ray , english dia- fiction/documentary, digital, german/ 2011, ‘77, documentary, Blu-ray, This is about a person who was mistaken logue, no sub. english dialogue, german /english sub. portuguese dialogue, english sub. as a girl at birth, because of not having Lyrically poignant yet contained, ‘Like rats Dutch Premiere. This documentary is the personal story male genitalia. At 18, they realizes their leaving a sinking ship’ is an intimate piece It follows the life of 33-year-old Moroccan- of a Brazilian transman named Syllvio true gender and undergoes a gender that combines personal subjectivity with German Mourad, who is ‘the smallest Luccio, on a road trip around northeastern changing operation in Tehran. the clinical objectivity of medical reports, drag queen of the world’ and multi- Brazil, talking to LGBT’s, doctors, family, ------challenging the very notions of these disabled, 48-year-old Dutch Antoine, who and others, telling his history. His parents categories. The film is partly based on the is a nightclub performer as well. Mourad and his daughter are evangelical Christians Chupann Chupai author’s psychiatric assessments diagno- experiments with his disabilities and is not who are having a difficult time with his (Hide and seek) sing her with ‘Gender Identity Disorder.’ in the closet like most of disabled people, transition. More broadly, the region Saad Khan & Saadat Munir, Pakistan/ With Q&A. but on stage at parties on Ibiza amongst of Brazil where Syllvio lives boasts an Denmark, 2013, 67’, documentary, DVD, ------the most beautifully built go-go dancers. arid, almost desert, climate, with a strong urdu dialogue, english sub. This movie is part documentary, part fairy sense of machismo and rigid religious The film shows the secret, yet open lives tale, arty, camp-style fiction, connected views but much less in the way of social of a group of Pakistani sexual minorities, to what they talk about, think and dream graces. Syllvio himself describes the raising questions about transgender acti- about. Very visual, very fancy as well as culture as ‘tacky and rude,’ as an excuse vism, religion, underground gay life, social experimental, but always entertaining for some of his own crass comments. acceptance and collective familial customs and burlesque. With Q&A. of transgender people in urban Pakistan. With Q&A.

Pojktanten

Pojktanten (She Male Snails) Ester Martin Bergsmark, Sweden, 2011, 72’, experimental fiction, digital , swedish dialogue, english sub. Olha pra mim de novo A visual fantasy of delicately flavored contrasts, of delirium and sensuality, Chupann Chupai distillation and disjuncture, and the recla- mation of femininity from the destruction of masculine forces. The protagonist, Eli, is caught in between genders, more than just a boy or girl, with an eye for feminine androgyny. Eli struggles with anxiety, vio- lence, and the problematic nature of self- One Zero One definition; and when simply remaining alive is a task, reciprocating love becomes harder still. With Q&A. 21:00-1:00 • The Ketelhuis Foyer Late Night Red lounge 8 9 Friday may 10th

th 15:00-17:00 • Cavia • ¤ 4,- Friday may 10 To See & Be Seen / Shorts program Shorts selection program by guest On the third day of the TranScreenTransgender Filmfestival, e focus on non- curator Kate Huh. Transgender visibility medicalisation, mixed abilities, and the Dutch premieres of ‘I stand corrected’, is explored in lyrical, poetic and some- ‘Angel’ and the explicit, extended version of ‘Sexing the transman’... And don’t times humorous works. Through these forget: a shorts selection program by guest curator Kate Huh “To See & Be Seen”! short films, the audience is lead on a I’m Fine journey through various modalities of seeing and being seen. Subsequently a I’m Fine dialogue for all about self-representation. Tanwarin Sukkhapisit, 2008, 3’, 15.00-16:30 • Ketelhuis 3 • ¤ 9,------Thailand, digital, color, sound, thai STOP Pathologization! 1 dialogue, english sub., Dutch premiere Blink Sitting in a cage on a hot sunny day in Transguys are hot Silas Horward, 2009, 10’, USA, digital, front of the Democracy Monument in Tom O’Tottenham & Serge Nicholson, color, sound, english, Dutch premiere Bangkok. The key to unlock the cage is UK, 2012, 4’, docu, digital, no dialogue, A glimpse of a young trans boy’s first accessible to those who pass by. Some english sub. furtive kiss. Blink is a rumination on the offer to help release her but she declines. Tom and Serge, two transguys enlist dangers of first crushes, the weight of clean ------their extended queer family of friends guns and the habits of sea cucumbers. and community allies to share a playful, ------Villanelle For Daters joyous, affirmative message. The film Buzz Slutzky, 2012, 2’, USA, digital, color, shows a message held close to the hearts The Decadence of sound, english, EU premiere of London queers and trans people. Your Starvation With love tight like a brand new binder, Transguys are... hot. Juli Rivera, 2008, 3’, Germany, digital, hand-drawn images on doilies ponder internet ------color, sound, english, Dutch premiere dating. Not always easy, but this filmmaker Mind A vibrant video of a short performance has a playful perspective on the dilemma. Fille ou garçon, mon sexe piece about creating a Black Queer German ------n’est pa mon genre Mind narrative within mainstream voices. (Girl or Boy, my sex is not my gender) Emma Crimmings, AUS, 2011, 26’, special ------Little Orphan Gender Valerie Mitteaux, France, 2012, 61’, effects docu, Digi Beta, english dialogue, Revolutionary Annie documentary, DigiBeta, fr./eng./spanish no sub. Looking for Jiro Killer Sideburns, Dr. Kate Sorensen & dialogue, english sub. Mind is a visually imaginative explora- Tina Takemoto 2011, 6’, USA, digital, Niknaz Tavakolian. 2011, 14’, USA, digital, Being born a woman, feeling like a man, tion of the nature of identity. From an B/W, sound, english, Dutch premiere color, sound, english, Dutch premiere and deciding to cross the boundary early age, award winning writer Tom Cho Musical mash-up video about Jiro Onuma. Annie is stuck in the rotten gender-binary between the genders. Trans-boys. In thought he was different and knew he Features drag king performance, U.S. girls’ orphanage system. This video features San Francisco, Paris and , didn’t match his Chinese mother’s expec- propaganda footage, muscle building four toy theater stages, green-screen video a four-way portrait of Lynnee, Kaleb, tations of a good daughter. Tom’s wild nd homoerotic bread-making. magic, and a miniature broadway star. Rocco and Miguel, four individuals imaginings, including incredible images ------who embody and explore this fluidity of Godzilla rampaging through of gender and challenge the logic of suburbia, will make your jaw drop. Something Dangerous At Least You Know You Exist masculine-feminine and seeks to under- Zavé Martohardjono, 2012, 6’, USA, HD, Zackary Drucker, 2011, 16’, USA, digital, stand how this new way of living as a man digital, color, silent, english text, EU premiere color, sound, eng. dialogue, Dutch premiere may impact man/woman relationships Self presentation and ritualistic haircut- A haunting dream-like portrait of the in general. ting. Text overlays the images to give the young filmmaker and her adopted queer audience an opportunity to join the film- grandmother. Cultivating under-recognized makers’ contemplations and questions. aspects of transgender history. >> p. 16 10 11 Friday may 10th Friday may 10th

17:00-18:45 • Ketelhuis 2 • ¤ 9,- 17:00-18:30 • Ketelhuis 3 • ¤ 9,- 19:00-20:45 • Ketelhuis 2 • ¤ 9,- 19:00h-20:15 • Ketelhuis 3 • ¤ 9,- STOP Pathologization! 2 Mixed Abilities 2 Alternative Fictions 1 Sex Positive

Transgender Tuesdays Morir de Pie Our Future The love that dare not speak Mark Freeman, USA, 2012, 54’, documen- (Die standing up) Kashou Lizuka, Japan, 2011, 95’, feature it’s name (o amor) tary, HD Cam, english dialogue, no sub. Jacaranda Correra, Mexico, 2011, 90’, film, HD-cam, japanese dialogue, english Bárbara Roma, Brasil, 2013, 15’, road The lives of eight patients who came to documentary, DigiBeta, spanish dialogue, sub. movie, digital, portuguese dialogue, the first trans clinic in the US. These true english sub. High school student, Yu, agonizes over a english sub. tales reveal what trans* life was like in Back in the 1980’s, Irina Layevska was perceived gender identity problem. S/he From the first meeting between Leila and San Francisco and make it clear that it is the son of Mexican communist activists. secretly suffers having to wear a school Michela, they find in each other’s solitude still no bed of roses today. It is the lives With a strong physical and ideological girl uniform everyday, and the heartless a desire that arises from an unexpected of these transgender heroes that provide resemblance of Che Guevara, she became words of schoolmates as well as the uneasy feeling. pride in the present and hope for the a leader of solidarity campaigns for the feeling for a female body in puberty. future. Cuban Revolution. After having lived Meanwhile, at home, Yu’s parents have for years with her partner Nelida, she decided to divorce with Yu’s supportive discovers the woman inside her and father becoming expelled from the house. decides to change her gender. Since her The film carefully depicts the emotions early youth, Irina suffered from a serious of a wavering teen confronting life’s desease that confined her to a wheelchair. choices for the first time. The issue of Now, she is also blind, making her even gender identity is a frame of mind, but the more dependent on Nelida. Nonetheless, camera never forgets society’s perspective. Irina‘s personal battle against discrimina- Applying the theme of “how does one live The love that dare not speak it’s name (o amor) tion and prejudice continues. A remarkable with others while being yourself.” ------Transgender Tuesdays story of courage and love that knows no Powerful. ------gender. Angel Sebastiano d’Ayala Valva, France, 2010, Austin Unbound 62’, documentary, DigiBeta, french Eliza Greenwood & Sel Staley, USA, 2011, dialogue, english subs 45’, documentary, digital, no dialogue, In Paris everyone knows him as “Mujeron” english sub. (Big Woman) but his real name is Angel. This film follows Austin and his best A former boxer from Ecuador, Angel is friend on a road trip to finally undergo now a transsexual prostitute in France. a double-mastectomy. His journey is His mission in life is to support his family an inspiration to his community and Our Future back home. Now, after five years away, the beyond as he shares his intimate insights time has come for him to see what his help with self-awareness and humor. Austin’s has achieved. At times a harsh look into deaf experience is portrayed in cinematic an extraordinary life. effect. Viewers that are not hearing- impaired are now all of a sudden put on ‘the other side.’ With Q&A in sign language.

Morir de Pie

>> p. 16 12 13 Program Ketelhuis 1* Ketelhuis 2* Ketelhuis 3* Cavia** Workshops/parties at various locations Wednesday may 8th 19:00 Bob’s Favorites 22:00 Opening gala @Vrankrijk Thursday may 9th 13:00 Community filmmaking workshop @De Peper OT301 17:00 Feeling Community 1 Q&A 17:00 Feeling Community 3 Q&A 17:00 World reports 1 19:00 Unambiguously Intersex 1 19:00 Gaining Life Experience 19:00 World reports 2 21:00 She Male Snails Q&A 21:00 One Zero One Q&A 21:00 World reports 3 21:00 Late Night Red lounge @The Ketelhuis foyer Friday may 10th 15:00 STOP Pathologization! 1 15:00 To see & be seen 17:00 STOP Pathologization! 2 17:00 Morir de Pie 19:00 Our Future 19:00 Sex Positive 19:00 Feeling community 4 21:00 Sunset Stories 21:00 I stand corrected 21:00 Triple -X Porn 22:45 Late Night Blue lounge Cavia chilling @Cavia Saturday may 11th 11:00 TG image media workshop 15:00 Oh Canada! 15:00 Trans in Dutch mediascape panel @IHLIA/OBA 17:00 Unambiguously Intersex 2 17:00 Expect the Unexpected Q&A 17:00 Retro (Dandy Dust) 19:00 World Reports 4 19:00 Gun Hill Road 19:00 Sweat + humor = porn 22:00 TransGlitter Party @Pakhuis Wilhelmina

th Sunday may 12 14:00 Artist Talks @IHLIA/OBA 15:00 Gen Silent 15:00 Surprise shorts 17:00 Award Ceremony 19:00 Hollands Best Q&A 19:00 Facing Mirrors 19:00 Audience favorite 21:00 Chill-out Afterparty, location to be announced All days 10:00-22:00 Exhibition LOST & FOUND @IHLIA/OBA Locations for maps, see www.TranScreen.org + for the latest news *Reservations Het Ketelhuis: 020-6840090. Buy 5 tickets in bulk at the Ketelhuis for only € 37,50 • Cinema Het Ketelhuis, Pazzanistraat 4, Amsterdam, www.ketelhuis.nl **Reservations Filmhuis Cavia: [email protected] • Filmhuis Cavia, Van Hallstraat 52-I (up the stairs), Amsterdam, www.filmhuiscavia.nl Buy tickets only at the cinema where the films of your choice are being screened • IHLIA/OBA, Oosterdokskade 143, Amsterdam, www.ihlia.nl • Pakhuis Wilhelmina, Veemkade 576, Amsterdam, www.cafepakhuiswilhelmina.nl 14 • De Peper OT301, Overtoom 301, Amsterdam, www.depeper.org 15 • Vrankrijk, Spuistraat 216, Amsterdam, www.vrankrijk.org Friday may 10th Friday may 10th

19:00-20:30 • Cavia • ¤ 4,- 21:00-22:30 • Ketelhuis 2 • ¤ 9,- 21:00-22:30 • Ketelhuis 3 • ¤ 9,- 21:00-22:45 • Cavia • ¤ 4,- Feeling community 4 Triple-X Porn Sunset stories I stand Corrected Queen of the desert Silas Howard, USA, 2012, 90’, feature Andrea Meyerson, USA 2012, 83’, digital, You Can’t have a hot lover, Alex Kelly, Australia, 2012, 27’, documen- film, HD Cam, english dialogue, no sub. documentary, english dialogue, no subs, a hot job and a hot apart- tary, DVD, english dialogue, no sub. May, a high-strung and overly meticulous Dutch Premiere ment all in the same city Follows the adventures of transgender nurse, must return to Los Angeles to True and compelling story of jazz bass Toni Schamel, GER, 2012, 3’, animation, artist and social worker Starlady Nungari retrieve bone marrow for a transplant. virtuoso Jenifer Leitham, formerly known digital, no dialogue, Dutch premiere as she travels to remote indigenous Soon after her trip begins, her world as John, who risked everything when An animation about the calamities of life. communities in central Australia teaching turns upside down when past and transitioning publicly during the very ------hairdressing to the kids. present collide and she runs smack into height of her career. An intimate and JP, the man she left behind five years ago. compassionate study of Leitham’s life, Flustered, May loses the cooler containing the film explores the self-doubts and fears the marrow. With only 24 hours remai- she wrestled with as she rose through the ning, the two embark on an offbeat search ranks of an often homophobic jazz world, through the streets of Los Angeles only and celebrates the joy she discovered after to discover that just when you think all embracing her female identity. She played is lost you find what you least expected. for jazz icons such as Mel Thorme, George Not a specifically queer film, yet made Shearing and Peggy Lee. Can she still do Sexing the transman, volume II by a transgender director. this after her transformation? Queen of the desert Sexing the transman, ------volume II Buck Angel, USA, 2012, 100’, porno doc, Revise/Disguise DVD, english dialogue, no sub. Madsen Minax, USA, 2011, 4’, exp. This intriguing documentary explores animation, DVD, no dialogue. the sexuality of transmen and the changes Revise/Disguise is an experimental they experience as a result of their gender animation that tells the after story of transitions from female to male. Trans- breasts post embodiment - a conversation men and their partners divulge the most in nightmare/fantasy and necessity/desire. Sunset stories personal secrets of their sex lives in With Q&A. revealing conversations and intimate ------interviews. In addition, for the first time in mainstream media, this film shows a The Year I broke my Voice graphic and uncensored introduction Madsen Minax, USA, 2012, 47’, experi- to a variety of transmale bodies. Sexing mental fiction, Blu-ray, english dialogue, the Transman illuminates the audience no sub. about the unique lives and challenges Set in a post-industrial ‘Neverland’ of of transmen, and calls for an acceptance worn down row houses, looming factories of broader definitions of gender and and desolate, rocky seashores, a cast sexuality. This explicit, extended version of mostly unnamed, gender- and age is a Dutch premiere. ambiguous figures share misadventures I Stand Corrected that explore friendship, sexuality and the trials that characterize aging. With Q&A

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th 15:00-16:30 • Cavia • ¤ 4,- Where we were not: Feeling Saturday may 11 Oh Canada! Reserved Jessica MacCormack and Alexus Young, Our compass Canada, 2011, 6’, animation/documentary, This day is packed with workshops, shorts programs, and other delights! And Tess Vo, Canada, 2009, 30’, documen- digital, english dialogue, no sub. so is the night. Tonight is the night of the grand and official TranScreen trans- tary, digital english dialogue, no sub. An intimate and profound portrait of one gender filmfestival party: TRANSGLITTER! So, put some glitter up yer butt and A group of young, queer-identified Toron- person’s experience of police brutality. join us at Pakhuis Wilhelmina. Get your tickets fast at our crew. tonians who are also labelled as having ------intellectual disabilities tells previously unheard stories. The Hawker Riot, Coco and Lim, Elisha, Canada/ 11:00-14:30 15:00-16:30 Singapore, 2012, 2’, animation, Beta SP, Transgender Image-Making in the Media Trans in het Nederlands medialandschap english dialogue, no sub. @ IHLIA-plaza, Conference Centre, @ IHLIA-plaza, Conference Centre, Writer Elisha Lim recounts their earliest Main Public Library Amsterdam, 6th floor Main Public Library Amsterdam, 6th floor memory of meeting another trans person Free and open to the public Free and open to the public in this delightful animation. Registration necessary (up to 40 Registration necessary (up to 40 ------participants): email Eliza Steinbock participants): email Eliza Steinbock [email protected] [email protected] Pussy Boy Trilogie: Transgender image-making - one of the A round table discussion (in Dutch) with Our compass A trilogy of short movies: Love, Sick and key issues in a European partnership two Dutch people who were already active ------First Period. The 6-minute-long, puppet- of five trans* projects from Germany, in the media before they transitioned. like, hand-animated films depict the ad- Ireland, Italy, Switzerland and the UK. With writer and philosopher Maxim Putting the I in trans ventures of Alick, a two-spirit transgender In this partnership, called ‘Page One’ Februari and journalist Monica Dreamgirl. Steen Starr, Canada, 2012, 5’, documen- youth in the suburbs of a small town. Q&A trans* activists and allies work on Moderated by Kam Wai Kui, organizer of tary, digital, english dialogue, no sub. retrospective with the director Alec Butler publishing strategies of improving trans* the Dutch Transgender Film Festival that Humorous mini-interviews about tra(i)ns, representation in the media. During took place from 2001-2009. filmed on the Trans Pride March in Misadventures of Pussy Boy; TranScreen, they will inform you about How can we improve public opinion Toronto. First Love their outcomes so far, especially regarding through trans* representations and ------Alec Butler, 2000, 6’, Canada, digital, english/ representation in print and broadcasting visibility in the media? german sub., animation, Dutch premiere media. As well, Page One will share Which strategies and knowledge do we Death of my Daughter When FTM transgendered junior high school examples of good practices and discuss have that can be employed to reach these Leon Mostovoy, Canada, 2010, 9’, boy Alick is seduced by Kay the sparks fly. creative and regulatory strategies invol- goals? How can we collectively develop documentary, digital, english dialogue, ving watchdog organisations, blogs and more complex and richer language in no sub. Misadventures of Pussy Boy; Sick social media. the media to reflect our community’s This short is about the role of gender, Alec Butler, 2001, 6’, Canada, digital, english/ Workshop leaders: Helen Belcher & diversity? and gender roles, in contemporary german sub., animation, Dutch premiere Ben Power. North American society, it documents When bashed at school, Alick and Kay transgender people being styled for a share the power of reclaiming hurtful special photo shoot. words like “sick”. ------Misadventures of Pussy Boy; Narcissus First Period Coral Short, Canada, 2011’, 2’ experimental, Alec Butler, 2004, 6’, Canada, digital, english/ digital, no dialogue german sub., animation, Dutch premiere A transman notices himself in a mirror, The first period of school and Alick’s first men- becomes transfixed and starts flirting. strual cycle, a shocking event that sends our Sublime! intersexed youth into an emotional tailspin. 18 19 Saturday may 11th Saturday may 11th

17:00-18:30 • Ketelhuis 2 • ¤ 9,- 17:00-18:30 • Ketelhuis 3 • ¤ 9,- 17:00-18:45 • Cavia • ¤ 4,- Unambiguously Intersex 2 Expect the Unexpected Retro Shorts programme 2 Finish Line Dandy Dust Gina Pei Chi Chen, USA 2011, 13’, fiction, The Thing Hans Scheirl, UK/Austria, 94’, experi- Blu-ray, english dialogue, no sub. Rhys Ernst, USA 2012, 15’, roadmovie, mental, DVD, english dialogue, no sub. Angeni, a runner, is forced to undergo the 16mm, digital, english dialogue, no sub. This epic experimental, lo-fi and low- sex verification test due to her masculine A woman, a transgender man, and their budget feature has involved the dedicated appearance and exceptional performance. cat travel towards a mysterious roadside creative genius of a whole community. Tormented by this, she’s made to believe attraction known as “The Thing”. One of the first cyborgian bodies in film her body is abnormal. ------to be explicitly gender-bending, Dandy ------Dust is the anti-story of Dandy, a character Passing whose gender remains permanently in Intersexions Kai Egener, Can 2010, 5’, fiction, DVD, Love and anger question. Like its shape-shifting protago- Grant Lahood, New Zealand, 2012, 68’, english dialogue, no sub. nist, the film jumps genres - from science documentary, BluRay, english dialogue, Not every revolution is loud and strident. Love and anger fiction, to mystery, to horror, to splatter, no sub. In this almost silent short we follow a Brian Benson, GB 2012, 17’, comedy, to porn, and resists an effort by the viewer The first question any new parent asks… genderqueer person who stays true to her- digital, english dialogue, no sub. to impose a narrative on the chaotic “Is it a boy or a girl?” But what happens self in her own quiet way. Dutch premiere. For Cousin’s entire life her mother has proceedings. Absolutely worth the effort, when doctors cannot answer that ques------treated her like human garbage. One day this cult hit remains a fresh and provoca- tion? This award winning documentary she discovers her Fairy Godmother who tive challenge to transgender filmmaking. takes a look into the world of intersex Hotel transports her to a faraway land from people. The 1 in 2000 of us whose bodies André Callot, USA 2012, 24’, fiction, another time. Here she finds the courage fall somewhere between male and female. digital, english dialogue, no sub. to confront her mother, the Evil Queen... A woman on vacation receives a local ------visitor in her hotel room... With Q&A. ------JINKXALICIOUS Alex Berry, USA 2011, 5’, music video, Transsexual Dominatrix digital, english dialogue, no sub. Shawna Viargo, USA, 2011, 4’, musicvideo, Jinkx Monsoon’s music video for her DigiBeta, english dialogue, no sub. song “Jinkxalicious” making the gay boys Dandy Dust This music video flashes a whole arsenal horny. Featuring Seattle bars The Chapel of toys. A San Francisco underground and The Crecent. muse wails on her six-string and doles out lyrical pleasure-pain in this leather anthem. Dutch premiere. ------A night in the woods Alexander Lee, USA 2012, 9’, horror, Blu-ray, english dialogue, no sub. Forced to leave everything behind to escape a zombie virus pandemic, Rae Intersexions Santos, a genderqueer person of color, must confront the unknown in the woods and within hirself.

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19:00-20:30 • Ketelhuis 2 • ¤ 9,- 19:00-20:30 • Ketelhuis 3 • ¤ 9,- 19:00 • Cavia 22:00-03:00 • Pakhuis Wilhelmina World Reports 4 Alternative Fictions 2 Sweat + Humor = Porn ¤ 7,-

Burmese Butterfly Gun Hill Road Biodildo Hnin Ei Hlaing, Myanmar, 2011, 13’, Rashaad Ernesto Green, USA 2012, 88’, Claus (aka Christian Slaughter), TransGlitter documentary, DigiBeta, Burmese fiction, DVD, english dialogue, no sub. Germany, 2012, 10’, Porn, digital, english The official TranScreen Festival Party dialogue, english sub After three years in jail, macho-man dialogue, no sub. This powerful short is a rare glimpse into Enrique returns to the Bronx. His old life A perfect couple in a perfect home after The grand and much anticipated out-queer Myanmar’s emerging LGBT completely turned upside down; His wife a perfect dinner ready for perfect sex. festival party. Put some glitter up community. tries to hide an affair and his son is in the But something is not so perfect... yer butt and join us. Get your tickets ------middle of a gender transformation. Under Won Feminist Porn Award in Toronto fast from our crew at the info desks. the watchful eye of his parole officer, as Sexiest Short. European premiere. Children of Srikandi Enrique is forced to put his traditional ------Performers: (Anak Anak) ideas about masculinity and gender aside. • Madsen Minax The Children of Srikandi Collective, The Confession of Father • Casey Camp & Gay-Lo Indonesia/Germany/Switzerland 2012, John Thomas • Babes 73’, documentary, Blu-ray, indonesian/ Elka Kerkhofs, AUS, 2011, 5’, animation, and more... english dialogue, english sub. digital, english dialogue, no subs Children of Srikandi is the first film about When you’re a penis and a priest, it’s • MC’s: Brad Clitt and Sledge Hammer queer women in Indonesia, the country bound to cause some, uhm, inner conflict. • DJ Delineator, DJ Kaseta, DJ Linx with the world’s largest Muslim popula- In the heart of the Australian outback • VJs: Suwanne CCTV & Nuns with guns tion. Eight authentic and poetic stories are Father John Thomas’s filthy fantasies get interwoven with beautiful shadow theater stimulated by Miss Beaver Eater. scenes that tell the story of Srikandi, one Gun Hill Road ------of the characters of the Indian Mahabha- rata. This collective anthology transcends Offing Jack the borders between documentary, fiction Bruce La Bruce, Duitsland, 2012, 14’, porn and experimental film. fiction, DVD, english dialogue, no sub. Part of the ‘fucking different xxx’ project, veteran Bruce La Bruce breaks the rules and does what what he does best: presen- ting us with men having sex in cruel and unusual ways. ------Mommy is coming Cheryl Dunye, GER 2012, 64’, porn/ Children of Srikandi comedy, DVD, english dialogue, no sub Set in the international creative melting pot Berlin, this raunchy romantic comedy of errors confronts the last lesbian taboo: Mommy. A take on screwball romantic comedies and porn topped off with Dunye’s ingenious and original form of storytelling. Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 576, Amsterdam GPS: 52.37594, 4.92777 22 23 Sunday may 12th

th 17:00-18:45 • Ketelhuis 1 • ¤ 9,- 19:00-20:15 • Ketelhuis 2 • ¤ 9,- Sunday may 12 Award ceremony Hollands Best + One Zero One - the story Q&A with directors Bart Peters and Last day with ‘Hollands Best’, favorites on repeat and surprises. And the climax: of Cybersissy & BayBjane Chris Rijksen the audience favorites are being announced and awarded! The ceremony will be Tim Lienhard, Germany 2012, 90’, fiction/ ------in de main cinema at Ketelhuis. With the screening of ‘’One Zero One, the story documentary, digital, german/english of Cybersissy and BayBjane’’. Tickets will be going fast, be quick! dialogue, german /english sub. Persona Vitae Dutch Premiere. Chris Rijksen, Netherlands, 2012, 4’, The film follows the life of 33-year-old experimental, DVD, dutch dialogue, Moroccan-German Mourad, who is ‘the english sub. 14:00-16:00 15:00-16:15 • Cavia • ¤ 4,- smallest drag queen in the world’ and The filmmaker explores the multiple @ IHLIA-plaza, Conference Centre, multi-disabled, and 48-year-old Dutch identities that one person can possess. Main Public Library Amsterdam, 6th floor Surprise Shorts Antoine, who is a nightclub performer Do we know who we are? Free entrance Leave your worries behind, sit back, as well. Mourad experiments with his ------relax and be entertained with a sensational disabilities and is not in the closet like Exhibition “Lost & Found collection shorts of our choice. Especially most disabled people, but on stage of Laura Transgender Image- for all fanatics. Let us surprise you! Parties on Ibiza amongst the most beauti- Bart Peters, Netherlands, 2013, 8’, fiction, Making” in focus fully built go-go dancers. This movie DVD, dutch dialogue, english sub. Filmmakers and artists come together at is part documentary and the other part is Laura is a short film about the experience IHLIA plaza, for in depth grouptalks. fairy tale, arty, Camp-Style fiction, con- of a transwoman who, for the first time, nected to what they talk about, think and comes out in her appropriate gender. dream about. Very visual, very fancy as ------well as experimental, but always entertai- 15:00-16:15 • Ketelhuis 3 • ¤ 9,- ning and burlesque. Queer Amsterdam Pilot Generations Bart Peters, Netherlands, 2013, 50’,pilot/ fictie DVD, dutch dialogue, english sub. Gen Silent Pilot episode of a Dutch tv show about Stu Maddox, USA, 2012, 63’, documen- nine characters who identify as queer tary, digital, english dialogue, no sub. and are connected to each other by their An expose on the social experiences sexual identity and the swirling Amster- of aging queers: some see themselves dam life. This pilot episode introduces the go back into the closet, and others characters and their storylines. While the

fight for continued visibility and care One Zero One dilemmas of everyday pass, such as gender in the community. A sensitive, high identity shifts, HIV status and the lesbian rated feature film in our ‘Generations’ dating scene, everyone celebrates love in program. Supported by the Consortium their own way. Roze 50+ Netherlands.

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19:00-20:45 • Ketelhuis 3 • ¤ 9,- 19:00-t.b.a. • Cavia • ¤ 4,- Alternative Fictions 3 Audience favorite Facing Mirrors Screening of the Audience favorites. Negar Azarbayjani, Iran, 2011, 102’, A celebrated repeat of the highest rated roadmovie, DVD, iranian dialogue, feature movie and most popular short eng sub. film, or... a surprise film. Will again be Set in contemporary Iran, a story of an screened on saturday june 22nd, when unlikely and daring friendship that TranScreen travels to the MidSummer- develops despite social norms and religious Canal Festival in Utrecht. beliefs. Although Rana is a traditional wife and mother, she is forced to drive a cab to pay off the debt that keeps her husband in prison. By chance she picks up the wealthy and rebellious Edi, who is desperately awaiting a passport to leave the country. At first Rana attempts to help, but when she realizes that Edi is transgender, a dangerous series of conflicts arises. The first narrative film from Iran to feature a transgender main character. Much praised for its cinematographic quality

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