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FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

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Trans: The Pursuit Of Happiness

Sunday

Apr 10, 2022

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12:00 pm

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This film is presented in with English subtitles.
It’s the human condition, and for trans folk, it’s a heroic act by definition. Here are 10 stories about us from the perspective of the quest for human happiness.
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This short film program includes the following films:

Bros Before

CONTENT WARNING:
Elijah and Billy are two trans bros who just happen to enjoy jerking off together -- in a straight way! But when Billy starts dating a woman, Elijah must come to terms with his feelings for Billy and his own burgeoning homosexuality.

Sed Saepe Cadendo

CONTENT WARNING:
Home alone on a sunny afternoon, a perfect time for frolics in the garden.

Karina's Suit

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Muete, an armed group deserter, travels to the city to visit his cousin Karina, a transgender woman that does sex work. Muete tries to convince her to return to their town because her mother is very ill. The only condition: she has to go as Leonardo, her former identity.

Birthday Boy

CONTENT WARNING:
A transgender boy celebrates his birthday in online games, away from the bullying he faces at an all girls school. A film by an LGBTQ+ crew.

Long After Us

CONTENT WARNING:
LONG AFTER US is an attempt to shine light on the beauty and complexities of the human experience through motifs of memory, death and transgender identity. In post-apocalyptic earth, a small creature uses the previous belongings of humans to briefly peer into their life. This story follows the encounter of a long abandoned cellphone once owned by a human named Ash. Every life holds a rapid catalog of experiences, but what does the creature see in Ash’s?

My Own

CONTENT WARNING:
My Own tells the story of Bianca, a nonbinary person, struggling to find the place for gender fluidity within the rigid world of ballet. Bianca finds their own voice, in this dance-filled rumination on coming out, not as one thing or another, but as something in between.

River Fork

CONTENT WARNING:
A trans man recuperating from top surgery spots a painting in his hotel bathroom which takes him back to a different time.

Transformations

CONTENT WARNING:
Transformations is an experimental short film that was shot on Super 8 film as well as an iPhone 12. These two mediums were used to capture the subject's not only physical transformation, but emotional over the course of a year. The intention of the filmmaker in filming partially on color film and partially on an iPhone in black and white was to engage the audience in viewing the subject from different lenses.

How Not To Date While Trans

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"How Not To Date While Trans" is a break-the-fourth-wall, dark comedy that follows the dating life of a black trans woman and the problematic men she meets along the way. Andie searches for romance and self-love but ends with heartbreak.

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