The TranScreen Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival (May 8-12) is one of the largest film festivals in the world entirely dedicated to the themes of masculinity, femininity, and everything that lies between, beyond, and beneath them. For it becomes abundantly clear here that there are more types of people than just 'men' and 'women'. Ticket sales for TranScreen have now started; gender is not requested.

The question 'are you a man or a woman?' is heard often. Even when purchasing cinema tickets. TranScreen deliberately ensures that festival-goers cannot book online. After all, almost all online ticketing systems in the Netherlands first ask what gender someone is before they are allowed to take a seat in the plush seats. At TranScreen, ticket sales are entirely gender-neutral, via telephone, email, or at the box office.
The toilets in the Ketelhuis and Filmhuis Cavia have also been adapted for the occasion. No male/female signs on the doors, but gender-neutral toilets.

The film festival screens over 80 short and feature fiction films and documentaries that throw all stereotypes overboard.
-Like One Zero One (Tim Lienhard, 2012), about two drag queens who both utilize and exploit their physical disabilities in their performances.
-The Dutch premiere of 'Our Future' is co-presented by CinemAsia and tells the story of Yu, who suffers under the girls' school uniform and the physical changes of puberty.
-In the dizzying Iranian road film Facing Mirrors (Negar Azerbayjani, 2011), a friendship blossoms between a taxi driver and a transgender protagonist who is on the run from family.
-The screening of the extra-long explicit porn film 'Sexing the Transman' (Buck Angel, 2012) promises to be exciting, as you receive both a free glove and a free condom with the purchase of a film ticket.
-There is a 'surprise shorts' compilation program, and the audience awards will be presented on the last day of the festival. Tickets for the opening on May 8 and for the awards ceremony on May 12 are selling particularly fast.

During the film festival, a further emphasis is placed on the workshops "Transgender in the Dutch Media Landscape" (essential for the press) and "Community Filmmaking". These workshops are free and open to the public at the OBA, where the TranScreen exhibition is also taking place until the end of July.
For registration, reservations and more: http://www.transcreen.nl

May 8-12
in The Boiler House
and Filmhuis Cavia
Amsterdam.

Location
Pazzanistraat 4, Amsterdam.



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