Transgender Rights Movies

Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at ages 4, 7, 12, and 15 – as they...

In the spotlight of global media coverage, the first transgender woman ever to perform as Don Giovanni in a professional opera, makes her historic...

Ewa Hołuszko is a remarkable figure. In the 1980s she bore the male name of Marek Hołuszko, an active Solidarity movement activist. After...

The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in...

A short documentary about being trans in Ireland.

This short film offers an as yet unseen insight into the every day transgender experience, and will hopefully promote much needed acceptance and...

After years away from home, Duna returns to his home village to get reunited with his ill father. Upon arrival, she will feel rejection and...

In this documentary, director Rhys Ernst tells the previously untold histories of transgender pioneers. Trans people have always been here,...

At a time when the far right is ascending to power around the world, the 2020 Brazilian municipal elections saw a surprising and unprecedented record...

At a time when transgender people are banned from serving in the U.S. military, four of the thousands of transgender troops risking discharge fight...

Documentary film about the life of a transgender woman, current political situation in Slovakia and the power of hatred.

Viji, Dora and Shanthi are transgenders, and Viji and Dora live together. When Viji’s best friend Shanthi is murdered, she decides to take...

One of the most unique performance events in Australia, Trans Glamoré is the premiere community event for transgender people in Sydney to come...

The deeply personal story of elite Welsh trans cyclist Emily Bridges as she fights to represent her country in the female category for the first time...

In 2016, transgender teen Gavin Grimm sued his local school board after its members refused to let him use the bathroom of his choice. He was ready...

It often happens that at the moment of death, transgender individuals are shorn of their identity. Their families are ashamed, the funeral takes...

Four Spanish-language shorts about the importance and complexity of people's perception from award winning directors. Stories of identity,...

It's a hot summer day in June, 1969. Marsha throws herself a birthday party and dreams of performing at a club in town, but no one shows up. Sylvia,...

Four transgender people are wandering around the streets while they tell us about their life experiences in a country that doesn't have a place for...