Transgender Rights Movies

A documentary about trans woman rapper and producer htmljones/ish99ni (Ishaani Ponniah), framed through the visual language of early-2000s...

The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in...

Archive footage from 2006 - 2010 of a young girl growing up during the ages of four to eight. Only fragments of what is remembered exists. Words from...

A year in the life of two transgender siblings as they navigate puberty, a local beauty pageant, and transitioning in the Trump era.

In this experimental documentary, a transgender woman reflects on being harassed by a stranger.

It's a hot summer day in June 1969. Marsha plans a birthday party for herself, but no one shows up. Sylvia, Marsha's best friend, suggests they meet...

A short documentary about being trans in Ireland.

50 year old Kim is transitioning from female to male gender over a period of four years. The story follows his life, surgery and struggles with his...

Four Spanish-language shorts about the importance and complexity of people's perception from award winning directors. Stories of identity,...

Moving image artist Lily Alexandre forces herself to ask an unspeakable question: should trans people make ourselves disappear?

At a time when transgender people are banned from serving in the U.S. military, four of the thousands of transgender troops risking discharge fight...

The result of three years of production, more than 100 hours of filming, and interviews with people from 15 nationalities, Translatina paints an...

The documentary features the journey of the Voltrans initiative, a solidarity platform for trans men in Turkey.

A gender-divergent demon fights for liberation, clashing with a Catholic priest.

A short documentary depicting the story of young transgender boy Ekai Lersundi, who took his own life in 2018 after struggling with the bureaucracy...

It often happens that at the moment of death, transgender individuals are shorn of their identity. Their families are ashamed, the funeral takes...

Lies can kill. Transgender Nuclear Suicide Sojourner is an exploration of propaganda, lies, and the overwhelming urge to end it all.

An exploration of what it means to be unfelt.

Parimal is a woman trapped in a man’s body who runs away from home and joins a ghetto of eunuchs as Puti and sings at traffic signals to earn...

In this documentary, director Rhys Ernst tells the previously untold histories of transgender pioneers. Trans people have always been here,...