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• I Saw the TV Glow

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  From a trans filmmaker-Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show, a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Something You Said Last Night

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  From a trans filmmaker- A writer in her twenties accompanies her parents and younger sister on vacation.

• The People's Joker

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  From a trans filmmaker-An aspiring joker moves to Gotham City to make it big, but ends up grappling with her gender identity while forming an anti-comedy troupe and combatting a fascistic caped crusader. Helmed by writer/director/editor/star Vera…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• T-blockers

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  From a trans filmmaker- In small-town Australia, a nightmare is brewing. Sophie is a young filmmaker obsessed with finding a thought-to-be long-lost film. Meanwhile, an earthquake unleashes ancient parasites in the area that thrive on hatred,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• L'immensità

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  From a trans filmmaker-Clara and Felice struggle to raise their three children in the 1970's Rome. Their trans son Andrew yearns for another life, escaping into his own imagination to defuse family tension in this creative and moving film about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mutt

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  From a trans filmmaker- Fena, a young trans guy bustling through life in New York City, is afflicted with an incessantly challenging day that resurrects ghosts from his past. Laundromats, subway turnstiles, and airport transfers are the hectic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• National Anthem

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  Featuring a trans actress- A 21-year-old construction worker in New Mexico joins a community of queer rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream.

• A fantastic woman

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  Features a trans Actress-“Marina (Daniela Vega), a transgender nightclub singer, comes under suspicion when her much older lover Orlando (Francisco Reyes) dies suddenly. After being harassed and threatened by her late boyfriend's vengeful relatives…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tangerine

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  Film features trans actresses- “A transgender prostitute (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) is released from prison and meets her friend at a donut shop. She learns that her boyfriend and pimp (James Ransone) is cheating on her and begins a search through the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gun Hill Road

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  Film features a trans actress- “Films like Gun Hill Road with Latino leads are a rarity in independent gay cinema. The film further sets itself apart in that one of its leads is transgendered on screen as well as in real-life.” (Gay Essential)

• Cowboys

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  Film features a trans actor-“A troubled but well-intentioned father who has recently separated from his wife runs off with his trans son into the Montana wilderness after his ex-wife's refusal to let their son live as his authentic self.” (IMDb)

• Joyland

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  The youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque and quickly becomes smitten with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.

• Together Together

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  Featuring a trans lead actress- When a young loner becomes the gestational surrogate for a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Matrix

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  From trans filmakers-In an anti-utopian future, the "real" world as we know it is nothing more than a computer construct, created by an all-powerful artificial intelligence. A small group of humans as found a way out of the construct, and are now…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Growing Up Trans

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  “An intimate exploration of the struggles and choices facing transgender kids and their parents. Through moving, personal stories of children, parents and doctors, the film examines new medical interventions increasingly being offered at younger…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Little girl

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  “The touching portrait of eight-year-old Sasha, who questions her gender and in doing so, evokes the sometimes disturbing reactions of a society that is still invested in a biological boy-girl way of thinking.” (IMDb)

• Growing Up Coy

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  “A Colorado family is thrust into the international media spotlight when they fight for the rights of their 6-year-old transgender daughter in a landmark civil rights case.” (IMDb)

• Little Richard

  I Am Everything

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  One-of-a-kind rock 'n' roll icon who shaped the world of music.

• No Ordinary Man

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  “This documentary provides a complex and intimate portrait of jazz musician and transgender icon Billy Tipton. During the height of his popularity in the 1940s and ‘50s, Tipton initially assumed an onstage male identity to pursue a career as a jazz…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Keyboard Fantasies

  the Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story

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  As a sci-fi obsessed woman living in near isolation, Beverly Glenn-Copeland wrote and self-released Keyboard Fantasies in Huntsville, Ontario back in 1986. Recorded in an Atari-powered home studio, the cassette featured seven tracks of a curious…Read moreRead more of this annotation