Wicked Queer 39

US PREMIERE

FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

THROWBACK FROM 

Wicked Trans

People Living

Sunday

Apr 2

@

3:30 pm

With in person.

Wicked Queer 39

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Wicked Trans

People Living

Sunday

,

Apr 2

@

3:30 pm

With in person.

Wicked Queer 39

US PREMIERE

WORLD PREMIERE

FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

Wicked Trans

People Living

Sunday

Apr 2

@

3:30 pm

ArtsEmerson Paramount Center

With 
 in person.
Director
Year
Run Time
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Country
Language
PROGRAM Time
minutes
Content warning:
This film is presented in
with English subtitles.
These words are the first you hear in this year's Trans program; “I don’t want to tell this fin’ story any more – this fin’ Trans trauma. We know that story. It’s always there. Like, where’s the story of the people who are really living life?” – Lisa Stephen Friday. Here is a set of short films about people living life.
Diane Griffin
Programmer
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Transmission: Lisa Stephen Friday

7
min 
Content warning:
A transgender glam rocker must overcome her struggle of self-acceptance to share her story, a story of hard fought, hard won self-actualization and power in order to preserve an important part of transgender history.
DIRECTOR
Emma Underwood
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
English

Here, Hopefully

11
min 
Content warning:
Zee, a nonbinary aspiring nurse from China, strives to build a gender-affirming life in rural Iowa, US. After graduating from nursing school, they work tirelessly to pass their licensure exam in hopes of obtaining a work visa.
DIRECTOR
Hao Zhou
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
Chinese, English

That Dark Day

30
min 
Content warning:
ANTI-QUEER VIOLENCE
City councilor Victor mysteriously disappears in Sao Paulo during a day that turns night because of meteorological phenomena and smoke from forest fires. Weeks go by, and Fabio grows closer to Louise. He is a trans man and a caregiver for the elderly. She is ill and living far from her family in France. While aiding Louise (a cis woman), Fabio's relationship with her matures into understanding, affection, and exchange. He becomes her rock.
DIRECTOR
Daniel Guarda
COUNTRY
Brazil
LANGUAGE
Portuguese

Dilating For Maximum Results

14
min 
Content warning:
A whack, irrelevant comedy about a black trans woman who tries to dilate, after four years of not dilating, to hook-up IRL with her online boyfriend.
DIRECTOR
Nyala Moon
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
English

Hedgehog

15
min 
Content warning:
Brig Huang, a headstrong trans teenager, is propelled into their hangover when a reckless decision to have sex without a condom triggers an urgent determination for the ‘morning after’ pill.
DIRECTOR
Jasper Caverly
COUNTRY
Australia
LANGUAGE
English

Aban

16
min 
Content warning:
BLOOD
Under constant pressure from her ex-husband, Nazanin should turn their child - Aban, nine years old - away from a very driven feminine taste. One day, Aban goes to the hospital thinking of undergoing life-changing surgery.
DIRECTOR
Abbas Taheri, Mahdieh Toosi
COUNTRY
France
LANGUAGE
Persian

Apayauq

14
min 
Content warning:
Apayauq Reitan's journey to become the first out transgender woman to complete the legendary Iditarod sled dog race.
DIRECTOR
Zeppelin Zeerip
COUNTRY
USA
LANGUAGE
English