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A film about a special friendship between the film's director Nur, who has moved from Kurdistan, and Rashan who, because of his sexual orientation, lives as a refugee in his own country. Two women from the same village who were both forced to flee but for widely different reasons.

JasperDasper's original YouTube masterpiece. Nearly five hours of in-depth analysis of the entire history of transphobia, where it stems from and why it is so prominent in the modern world, Jasper's unbelievable analysis is a two year long passion project, raised from an unflinching obsession towards finding out why.

Inspired by the Peggy McIntosh article, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Dis/ordering Transphobia is a video about non-trans people taking responsibility for transphobia. The video begins with three examples of non-trans privilege, and finishes with a reflexive description of why the video makers choose to make the video. Issues of transphobia within feminism and the queer community are addressed, with a particular focus on a transphobic article the video makers had to read as a school assignment.

Lindsay observes how the public's perception of transsexuals were negatively impacted by pop culture. Starting with the rise of Ed Gein and culminating in J.K. Rowling's controversial mystery novel "Troubled Blood."

Loredana Rossi has been fighting for her whole life. First for her identity, today as a social worker and “mom” of the Neapolitan femminielli. At 60, she has no intention of slowing down. For 21 years she has suffered prostitution on the sidewalks of Naples, a city that for centuries has been home to one of the most numerous transgender communities in the world, yet still strongly discriminated against. Loredana, along with her transgender rights group Associazione Trans Napoli, fights for the femminielli rights and she raises her voice when these are trampled. Loredana doesn’t allow anyone to silence her even when it comes to politics: Italy must obtain a law against homobitransphobia.

After years of slapdash sequels, the Camp Miasma franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original’s star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.

Dutch coach Thomas Rongen attempts the nearly impossible task of turning the American Samoa soccer team from perennial losers into winners.

A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.

Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.

More than 50% of transgender boys have attempted suicide. Through two life stories, directors Lexie and Logan unravel why their community is particularly vulnerable to living and dying quietly.

A cold night in December. Ebba waits for the tram to go home after a party, but the ride takes an unexpected turn.

A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. When lovely exchange student Frenchy slips through the door, the diminuitive King Fausto falls in love with her. The jealous Queen Doris takes Frenchy prisoner, and it is up to the Hercules family and friend Squeezit Henderson to rescue her.

Joseph Wilson meets the dance teacher fighting transphobic violence through voguing in Rio’s favelas.

Mikaela has undergone gender reassignment and is now a woman. One night at a bar, she meets a guy and takes him back to her place.

After being neglected by her mother, a little girl is taken in by her uncle and his transgender girlfriend, who create a loving home for her.

Not wanting to die in a body that repulses him, Lev, a trans college student, resorts to the most extreme measures possible.

A short film highlighting the increasingly dangerous trend of online bullying and its worrying effects on LGBT youth, and featuring some of the most prominent, visible and vocal members of the international queer community.

Bo is a transexual prostitute in Brussels who left home after being abused by her father. She's infuatuated with a neighbor and suspected by the police in a series of transexual murders. In order to clear herself she must turn detective.

An association takes in young LGBT people made homeless by their families. Behind the apparent comedy, the excesses, the desire to assert themselves, lie shattered lives. They all have this furious desire to exist, to find their place in society. Here, they have six months to find a job, a place to live and accept themselves as they are. It's a race against time, during which Noëlle, who runs the association, and Alex, who helps her in her mission, are also forced to face up to their own failings and question their motivation for helping others.

Filmmaker Ester Martin Bergsmark interrogates their response to a transphobic slur hurled at them following their move to Berlin. Exploring the root of violence and its nature, this is a powerful meditation on the trans experience and a treatise on how to move forward from fear.

With his ultra-conservative policies, US President Donald Trump is disrupting the global order as well as US institutions and society. Filmed less than one year after the start of his second mandate, this documentary analyses the concrete impact of his policies on the American people.

Through a life story the film deals with issues related to human rights, such as the right to difference. The character's life is presented from others, otherness as a logic. The spectators complete the senses and gradually realize that this is a homosexual who, still in his adolescence, became a transvestite; "Amapoa" is a term that comes from Yoruba and has become transvestite slang for women. The film has a brutal ending, revealing that the character suffered a strong violence. Homophobia. The approach leads to identification with the character and allows reflections on the intolerance of today's society.

Teenage Lindsey McCabe loses her opportunity for a college scholarship to a transgender athlete. In her father Steve's fight for fairness, he learns that even finding an attorney to take his case is a challenge and getting case to trial is an even bigger obstacle. But it takes a faith-based twist when his attorney gets the judge to accept God and the Bible into evidence.

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Sandra is travelling with Fay, helping her take the bus out of the country. A transphobic attack leaves them both stranded in the middle of nowhere. A sensitive and vibrant response to intolerance in the form of a gritty and realistic road movie.