Xiaodi is a documentary about a Chinese trans teenage girl’s multiple escape attempts from conversion therapy. Xiaodi herself is so impressive. She has a dead-centre strength, a ‘live free or die’ attitude. She narrates her story in the film through interviews and visits the sites of her escapes. She even stands outsides the conversion camp…
Baby Girl is a short documentary about Cunenk, an Indonesian trans woman who is living with the loss of her mother. Her mother always told her to be a useful person, so Cunenk decides to raise money for the local hospital maternity ward in her memory. We get to see Cunenk confident and outgoing in…
In much the same tradition as getting a telegram from the Queen here, in the Philippines when you turn 100 you get a payment of 100,000 pesos from the government. Lola, a modest trans woman living alone in her small home, has waited patiently for a year for her payment to arrive. While her home…