Transgender Rights Movies

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...

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...

A short documentary about being trans in Ireland.

After skipping town a decade ago, transgender activist Caz Davis returns to the remote, politically divided dairy community of Rurangi, hoping to...

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

Lucy, a transgender woman, shares her journey of self-love and empowerment since starting hormone replacement therapy three years ago. The film is...

In 2016, transgender teen Gavin Grimm sued his local school board after its members refused to let him use the bathroom of his choice. He was ready...

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

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

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

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

In the coffee-growing village of Santuario, Colombia, lives an indigenous transgender community. That is where Juliana and Berómica were...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

This Kind of Love follows Burmese human rights and LGBT activist, Aung Myo Min, as he returns home after 24 years in exile. Set against Myanmar's...