Featuring: THE ESTROGEN GOSPEL and SMOOTH and GUMMIES and GLORY, HOLE and A BODY TRANSGRESSIVE and PAPERGIRL.
T-Shockers: A Short Film Showcase of Trans Excellence
Blood, bodies and broken binaries abound in
THE ESTROGEN GOSPEL (World Premiere)
Dir: Robyn Adams. Starring: Robyn Adams, Lily MacKenzie, Stephanie Jayne Turner. United Kingdom (2024) 15mins
A young transgender woman takes a hike through the English countryside in an attempt to resolve her spiritual crisis - but an ancient evil strives to ensure that she never completes her journey.
GLORY, HOLE
Dir: Hiram Harrington. Starring: Felix Jonathan Jenkins, Emmanuel Okoye. Ireand/Germany (2024) 17mins
Two gay men, one cis and one trans, clash at a nightclub glory hole when one tries to castrate the man he believes raped him.
A BODY TRANSGRESSIVE
Dir: Charlie McClure. Canada (2023) 4mins
A love letter to Frankenstein's Monster, the Queer Body, Theatre, and Horror Cinema, A Body Transgressive is an exploration of subversive existence.
PAPERGIRL
Dir: Jack Warren. Starring: Willis Weinstein. USA (2024) 5mins
Gender dysphoria gives way to terrifying metamorphosis when a lonely partygoer discovers that their skin is turning to paper in this queer horror short.
SMOOTH
Dir: Sepand Mashiahof. Starring: Adam Longhurst, Sepand Mashiahof, Jeffrie Freeman. USA (2024) 20mins
After being rejected by her stalker for being too hairy, a trans woman spirals into a dysphoric limbo, and the only way out of it is through her own skin
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