SHORTS: HERE COME THE DOLLS

An audacious shorts program celebrating the vision and brilliance of trans women and those who love them. From vengeful resurrections to satanic rituals, shoplifters waging war on capitalism to secret cults, shadow selves to harrowing births, these genre-defying films crown the Dolls as auteurs, protagonists, dreamers, and disruptors.

Miss
Dir. Alexandra Stergiou, 7 min, USA
It’s been four days since Sophie came out as trans to her partner Jess. Seeking a place away from it all for Sophie to take her first steps out in the air as a woman, they go to a gas station outside of the city. Based on true events.

Dolls
Dir. Geena Rocero, 19 min, USA
A junior private investigator goes undercover to attend the relationship workshop for trans women called DOLLS. She quickly realizes a sinister force is at play.

PURPLE PATROL!
Dir. Jessica Q. Moore, 8 min, USA
A vigilante trio summons an otherworldly power to help protect the queer community. CW: Transphobic violence

Rainbow Girls
Dir. Nana Duffuor, 16 min, USA
As San Francisco’s tech boom gentrifies their city, three black trans youth decide to take matters into their own hands, staging an audacious heist targeting the city’s most exclusive luxury brands.

TransVengeance
Dir. Kaye Adeladie, 5 min, Canada
A trans woman dies on the operating table during facial feminization surgery, but death is no match for a determined transsexual. CW: Disturbing images

The Dysphoria
Dir. Kylie Aoibheann, 13 min, Australia
A trans woman performs a Satanic ritual to get a vagina, but unwittingly invites a demonic presence into her home which demands a terrible sacrifice. CW: Disturbing images

Artifice
Dir. Theo Rose, 12 min, USA
A mystic woman oscillates between performance and projection until she meets her shadow at a local coffee shop (or it’s about a girl being haunted by a pronoun, depending on who you ask).

Birth of the Hive Queen
Dir. Tempest Creation, 9 min, USA
Amina, a trans sex worker, gives birth out of her anus. CW: Disturbing images, explicit sexual situations

This screening will be followed by a Q&A