Category: Program

Thursday 18 May 19:30h – Kriterion 1Click here to order tickets. After hosting an online festival, we are happy to be back at Kriterion and JACO for another in-person edition. The core team will introduce themselves and the festival during opening night. We will screen the short video art installation ‘Trans People Applauding’ and the…

Friday 19 May 17:10h – Kriterion 2Click here to order tickets. In this collection of shorts, you get to see the newest short films from the Netherlands about transgender, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people. Dutch stories from our own turf. Includes the premiere of a new short film by the Transketeers! Here’s an overview of what…

Sunday 21 May – 19:10-20:50 – Kriterion 2Click here to order tickets. With aftertalk by Jonah Lamers Gloria Allen, a 73-year-old trans woman based in Chicago, Illinois, shares her life and recollections of growing up on the south side with an extremely supportive family, her childhood realization that she was a girl, time spent in…

Sunday 21 May – 17:00h – Kriterion 2Click here to order tickets. Tobias, a seventeen-year-old transgender boy, is waiting to begin his medical transition. During this frustrating period, he fights for acceptance in the northeast of Hungary. Alexa Bakony | Hungary | 2021 | 81 min | Hungarian spoken | English subtitles | Documentary There…

Juliana Curi | Brazil, USA | 2022 | 72 min | Portuguese spoken | English subtitles | Documentary Uýra, a trans-indigenous artist travels through the Amazon forest on a journey of self-discovery using performance art and ancestral messages to teach indigenous youth and confront structural racism and transphobia in Brazil. Watch the trailer.

Sunday 21 May – 15:00h – Kriterion 2Click here to order tickets.Shown before UÝRA – The Rising Forest. In the Colombian Caribbean, a group of queer activists practice a militancy that challenges heteropatriarchal norms while engaging in other causes to collectively fight against the various social injustices that plague the region. When the management of…

Sunday 21 May 12:30 – 14:30h – JACO Candid portrait of a trans son (Flip Zonne Zuijderland) and his mother about his search for gender and identity and her response as a parent. A moving and hilariously honest film, based on the successful theater play with the same name. This screening has an after talk with…

Bamby Salcedo organizes her 50th birthday celebration attended by people significant to her life. As she prepares for the event, Bamby travels through LA county and watches her life go past. Pedro Peira | Spain, USA | 2021 | 85 min | Esperanto & English spoken | English subtitles | Documentary From the streets where…