Gathered here are five short films from around the globe, all by trans filmmakers.

Lola, a true-crime podcaster, returns home for Christmas only to face a vengeful ghost reenacting the murders of a historical killer. With her community at risk, she must confront the town's buried secrets to stop the slaughter.

Jay and Aria are at a low point. Max, Jay's boyfriend and Aria's brother, was brutally murdered by a cult. The hate crime was not taken seriously. Now the duo must travel through rural Australia to kill the demons behind it and avenge Max.

As ancient parasites slowly take over her town, a young trans filmmaker and her friends realize they are the only ones who can stop them.

An aspiring actress from Kansas comes to New York and meets a host of zany characters.

A hybrid documentary centering stories from eight trans and postgender folks who cultivated community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst moments of connection and isolation, these participants reveal a deepening awareness of gender, their bodies, trans and queer community, racial and disability justice during this pandemic. Interlaced between documentary portraits are reenactments with social actors who re-live core Covid memories. These vignettes filmed as memories integrate archival material documenting what so many experienced.

An improvised microbudget feature dubbed the “trans Curb Your Enthusiasm”  from online cult director Henry Hanson. The film debuted to a sold-out crowd at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago and is currently on a world tour self-organized by the director and cast. 

Trans people have always been in horror movies, but often either as corpses, fools, or monsters. Tonight, we celebrate the changing course of trans horror with two contemporary films by trans directors, both of which explore and celebrate transness as opposed to demeaning it.

In a mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young witch assumes various forms and shapes as she explores her understanding of life.

On the 20th anniversary of his death, the members of a James Dean fan-club gather at a five-and-dime for a reunion.

This collection of short films all focus on transness and (almost) all feature a director from the Midwest. Whether it be obsessions with computer simulations, jerking off together as friends, or exploring trauma through kink, this array of films contains diverse approaches to the obstacles of everyday trans life.

After nearly losing her life in a horrible car accident, Alexia has been living with a high-purity, medical-grade titanium alloy implant firmly fixed to her skull. And ten challenging years after her extensive cranioplasty, Alexia is now a silently violent go-go dancer at underground automotive shows. But life is unpredictable--instead of being put off by cars, Alexia has developed a bizarre fetishistic fascination with automobiles. In the meantime, as a spate of grisly homicides terrorises the city, fire chief Vincent unexpectedly reunites with his long-lost son, Adrien. But time changes people--after all, the boy has been missing for a decade. Without a doubt, everything has its time, and now it's time to draw the final curtain. Who is the bruised, taciturn stranger that demands a place in Vincent's tender heart?

Eye+Candy is a colorful program full of visually delectable shorts that will make you say ‘wow.’ Thought-provoking and a delight to the senses, these films balance fabulous style with serious substance.

This one’s for the lovers! Fall for someone you’ve only exchanged letters with, confess your feelings to the cutie you’ve been dating, talk shit while sharing a joint on a date in San Francisco, and maybe even do some homoerotic wrestling with the cutie at the beach. Soft & Sweet is a romantic shorts program full of longing, lust, and love.

Between your head in the clouds and the depths of your nightmares. Under the skin and beyond imagination. Anything is possible when you enter The Midnight Realm.

Over the course of a single hectic day in New York City, three people from Feña's past are thrust back into his life: his father, his ex-boyfriend, and his 13-year old half-sister. Having lost touch since transitioning, Feña must navigate the new dynamics of these old relationships.

Soon after New York state passed a 2015 law requiring that health insurance providers cover transgender-related care and services, director Tania Cypriano and producer Michelle Hayashi began bringing their cameras behind the scenes at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, where this remarkable documentary captures the emotional and physical journey of surgical transitioning. Lending equal narrative weight to the experiences of the center’s groundbreaking surgeon Dr. Jess Ting and those of his diverse group of patients, Born to Be perfectly balances compassionate personal storytelling and fly-on-the-wall vérité. It’s a film of astonishing access—most importantly into the lives, joys, and fears of the people at its center.