2023 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival

Program 2

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8 films in package
Sir Valence Presents: Watching U
Log into the hellish Zoomscape of drag dæmon, Sir Valence, and their concussed/concursed post-police brutality exorcism of the masks we wear and the selves we’ve sold to surveillance capitalism. { Set to "Watch Me" and "Faceshopping" by trans musicians, Anohni and the late SOPHIE (respectively), this experimental video concoction is a mediatized rumination on the double-edged sword of [hyper]visibility (of queer and trans, disabled, PoC, etc. bodies) vs. the police surveillance state/the Panopticon (and its enmeshments with Christocentric white supremacy, ableism, #Academia, etc.) in the Zoom/COVID era--and possible Community interventions to burn all that shit down. }
Ordinary
"We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anaïs Nin. In a personal, experimental essay, Ordinary asks the question, "Have your eyes really seen (me?)."
Closed captions available
Papergirl
Gender dysphoria gives way to terrifying metamorphosis when a lonely partygoer discovers that their skin is turning to paper in this queer horror short.
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The Story of Mafalda (A História de Mafalda)
The tragic melody of a transgender woman who was murdered by her lover.
The Little Piratemaid
The Little Piratemaid is about what it’s like to discover yourself as a trans person in a cis-normative world—even if that world is one of pirates and mermaids!
Closed captions available
Not All Boys Look The Same
A short coming of age story about a young trans boy who struggles to accept his identity
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I SEEK YOUR HELP TO BURY A MAN (Procuro Teu Auxílio Para Enterrar Um Homem)
Don't fool yourself Soldier. This country is a mirage.
Shipping Them
A non-binary daydreamer pines for the life of the girl next door, but soon finds out the grass isn't always greener on the other side.
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All films in this program are closed-captioned.

Brazil, 1870. Gita is a transgender woman doomed to die or suffer the consequences of her traditions. The half-breed soldier is fated to uphold and serve the unjust laws of his country. The old woman in black needs to save her indigenous son from the claws of the Brazilian Empire. The child claims that the purpose of love, the greatest universal law, is the breaking of the cycle of all tragedies.


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Emerging Artists Award Winner at the Out South Queer Film Festival (USA, 2021), Anderson Bardot is an artist and filmmaker from Espírito Santo, Brazil. Bardot is the founder of the production film company Vale Encantado Filmes and holds a degree in cinema and audiovisual media from UFES. Anderson Bardot is the director, screenwriter, and producer of the short film "Inabitáveis/The Uninhabitable Ones", which premiered at the 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2020 and participated in more than 80 film festivals and screenings around the world, winning 13 awards. In 2023, Bardot came back to the 52nd edition of IFFR in order to release their new short film "Procuro Teu Auxílio Para Enterrar Um Homem/I Seek Your Help to Bury a Man". The film has already been selected for 12 international festivals and won a prize for best cinematography at the 11th Nyack International Film Festival (USA, 2023) and Best Director at the 9th Santos Film Fest.

  • Year
    2023
  • Runtime
    20 minutes
  • Language
    Portuguese, Romani, Nheengatu
  • Country
    Brazil
  • Genre
    Short
  • Subtitle Language
    English
  • Social Media
  • Director
    Anderson Bardot
  • Screenwriter
    Anderson Bardot
  • Producer
    Anderson Bardot
  • Cast
    FAGNER SOARES, LEONA JHOVS, MARGARETH GALVÃO, GUAJA, HIGOR CAMPAGNARO, MIGUEL MUHD, ERICK MARTÍNCUES & THELMA LOPES.
  • Cinematographer
    Willian Rubim
  • Editor
    Anderson Bardot
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