A meditation on a mystic woman haunted by pronouns, personality, and projection. Through poetry, presence, and subtle exposition, the film forgoes conventional narrative structure in favor of circling around its thesis: What can you know about a person? They shift in the light.

A poetic supernatural horror film from Two-Spirit director Bretten Hannam filled with ominous dread and ambitious narrative time leaps, At the Place of Ghosts follows two estranged Mi’kmaq brothers who venture into the wilderness to exorcise a demon that is stalking them and to mend a division between the siblings from years ago.

There is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror. But in the meantime we can smoke weed and surf with our friends.

When a grieving young woman is sent to a camp for troubled youth, she is welcomed by the outcasts and screw-ups into their literal coven. With their help, Emily discovers the dark and light, ominous and ecstatic magic that her grief can create. This sophomore feature by Avalon Fast (frequent collaborator of Alice Maio Mackay and Louise Weard) is an operatic and landmark new work of queer horror.

Fresh off of winning the Audience Award at Frameline49 with Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps, Louise Weard returns to the Festival with the latest chapter in her epic-in-the-making anthology film series, putting her own spin on the most timeless (and tiresome) of trans film stories: the coming out story.

Shakona doesn't always want to be treated so nicely... sometimes she wants to feel like the world does: chaotic. Yet she can't get her boyfriend Eddie to meet her needs, so she goes to where all good decisions are made: a hookup app.

A passive-aggressive tenderqueer couple sends their household into a quiet tailspin when they adopt an elderly dog who shares the same name as the unemployed couch surfer they just can’t seem to confront.

Rodina Singh effortlessly blends the visual styles of impressionistic horror and the pages of Blueboy magazine to create a bold fever dream of trans sexuality and desire, and their power to sustain life. Young trans woman Diwa escapes the drudgery of her day job and transphobia of any aspect of daily life with her favorite audio erotica content creator: Dreamboi. When she stumbles upon him having sex with a stranger, fantasy and reality start to blur.

Set in a tier-II city of Gujarat, if you know you know taps into the lifestyle and dating app culture of today’s youth. We follow Kusum on a first date with guys, raised on different values and conditioning, each trying to figure out how to deal with her trans identity without crossing boundaries.

Both an intimate family portrait and a cinematic collage of Black and trans collective memory and (be)longing, meditating on themes of safety, bodily autonomy and generations of compounding loss across time and media.

Set up as a confessional-cum-guided meditation, My Structuralist Film uses performance artist Tehching Hsieh's One Year Performance (“Time Clock Piece”) as a framework to illustrate the filmmaker's (presumable) insides. How thoroughly should a trans body want or need to be visible?

“Space is big and freaky and full of dangerous shit.” Even with a dad who studies the stars for a living, Sheri has always been afraid of the cosmos — and meteors in particular. After she begins to have strange dreams that coincide with a meteor shower and a string of local disappearances, Sheri uncovers an otherworldly evil that dates all the way back to her father’s youth.

In this gonzo documentary, a semi-delusional trans woman (Milo Talwani) embarks on a shocking, bizarre, and oddly touching personal odyssey to undo years of sexual repression by performing in puppygirl fetish porn.

After being rejected by her stalker for being too hairy, a trans woman spirals into a dysphoric limbo, and the only way out of it is through her own skin.


This experimental documentary challenges traditional notions of Black masculinity and identity through illuminating conversations with an ensemble of preachers, poets, students, activists, husbands, and fathers. Through overexposed black-and-white imagery, a visceral film grain, and an original trip-hop score personalized to each participant, Still Black gives us all (no matter our background) a chance to learn about the inherent beauty and power of Blackness and transness.

He/they underground filmmaker Henry Hanson presents a pair of bite-size features — Dog Movie and Puppygirl — exposing two of the greatest scourges facing trans people today: housing drama and puppygirls. Good girls and bad dogs only.

Jane Schoenbrun cements their place as one of cinema’s most vital auteurs with a psychosexual slasher that’s as ambitious as it is inventive. Starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, this riveting two-hander centers on a passionate writer who’s hired to reinvigorate their favorite horror franchise with the help of the original film’s now-reclusive final girl. But as the two women unravel the ways in which Camp Miasma has shaped them, they descend into a frenzied, blood-soaked world of desire, self-discovery, and delirium.

This shorts block centers on the emerging generation of filmmakers who are redefining both the medium and viewers' experiences with what's on screen.