All films in this program are closed-captioned. <a href="https://sftff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/TS_program2024_digital.pdf" target="_blank" class="ql-size-huge">2024 SFTFF Digital Program</a>

Hayden, a young trans suicide hotline operator, is excited to celebrate their anniversary after their shift. However, their boss calls and forces them to work throughout the night. As the shift goes on Hayden begins to receive unsettling calls.

Transiversary

A suicide hotline operator is forced to work through the night

Become golden as trans-vaquero Oliver Gold (Che Ortiga) sings his way through heartbreak and queer revelations of self worth in the instant country hit: Fool's Gold by the time traveling boyband: Turnback Boyz! Co-starring: Peter Pansy (Max Voltage), JB Bender (Nicole Smith) and Tommy Tugguns (Ruthless Nardecchia). Check out @turnbackboyz for more content!<a href="http://turnbackboyz.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">turnbackboyz.com</a>-----Che Ortiga is a Trans, Latine, Gay, multi-medium talent. He is singer, songwriter, actor, drag performer, director and published Poet at Bottle Cap Press with his premiere poetry chapbook, En Todos Los Mundos. Che resides with his cat and bunny in Ohlone Huichin lands of so-called Oakland, CA.

English

Fool's Gold

Become golden as trans-vaquero Oliver Gold (Che Ortiga) sings his way through heartbreak and queer revelations of self worth in the instant country hit by the time traveling boyband: Turnback Boyz!

In a dystopian future, a mother struggles to finish making her daughter’s Quinceañera dress.-----Roberto Fatal - Director, Writer, Producer, EditorRoberto Fatal [they/them/ellos] is a filmmaker and storyteller. They come from Rarámuri, Genízaro, and Spanish ancestors and Mexican-American culture. Their Queer, gender fluid, Mestize/Mixed identity informs the sci-fi films they make. Their debut feature script, ELECTRIC HOMIES, was on the 2022 GLAAD/Blacklist for best unproduced scripts list and in 2024 the script won an SF Film Rainin grant as well as a development grant from the Sundance Film Institute Indigenous Film Lab. Ali Meyers-Ohki - Writer, ProducerAli Meyers-Ohki (she/her) is a writer based in Sacramento, California. Her connection to her mixed Japanese and European ancestry as well as her experiences as a cis queer woman inspire her to write stories about identity, belonging, family, healing, history, and the future. Her work has been published by Queer Rain Magazine, Voyage YA, and ANMLY. She is a 2022 Hedgebrook residency recipient, a 2023 Walter Dean Myers Grant recipient, and a current Bennington Writing Seminars MFA graduate student. *Quinceañera dress by Rory Castillo

En Memoria

In a dystopian future, a mother struggles to finish making her daughter’s Quinceañera dress.

Pregnancy-phobic Kora (they/them) does everything to be a good friend, including in supporting their roommate, Diana (she/her), through her challenges in trying to become pregnant. When Kora receives a generous check and thank you note for an egg donation from a mysterious fertility clinic called Fertile Crescent, Diana helps Kora investigate – except Diana doesn’t return. Kora is forced to enter Fertile Crescent alone, and is ensnared by a motherhood-enforcing society that only sees Kora for their idealized healthy body. With Kora’s eggs harvested and no exit in sight, Kora is forced to confront their fears around femininity and fertility.<a href="https://linktr.ee/shirinmori" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/shirinmori</a>*Costume Designer: Charlie Blecker, Assistant Director: Clio Gevirtz-----Shirin Mori (they/she) grew up in a multigenerational San Francisco household, where as they tried to sleep, they could overhear their grandmother praying to die. A typical day in their childhood included bringing homemade meals from their Iranian grandmother to their Japanese grandmother and translating messages of care between both grandmothers who spoke very little English. Shirin is a writer/director as well as a designer who works on protecting our privacy at a civil liberties nonprofit. In their free time, Shirin is negotiating for their union’s first contract.

Navel Gazer

When a pregnancy-phobic nonbinary person receives a generous check for an egg donation, they find themselves in the crosshairs of a mysterious fertility clinic that only sees them for their idealized healthy body.

Danced upon cracked earth under wind-blown skies, TOWARD is a short dance film by transgender choreographer Sean Dorsey that uplifts how we can lean into and move toward that which we most desire. Performed by Sean Dorsey and Raúl Torres-Bonilla.

TOWARD

Danced upon cracked earth under wind-blown skies, TOWARD is a short dance film by transgender choreographer Sean Dorsey that uplifts how we can lean into and move toward that which we most desire.

Seven years after moving from Brazil to California to pursue his love of music, and four years after starting testosterone, Jaime Jobim searches for his new voice. Despite an uncertain future and a longing for home, Jaime Jobim relentlessly pursues his dream of becoming a great musician. Always in transition between places and selves, can he find a voice that is truly his own? Born out of a collaboration between two trans men, No More Longing is a rhythmic portrait of an artist engaging in the act, the process, and the practice of becoming. Connor Lee O’Keefe (he/him) is a nonfiction filmmaker, artist, and teacher currently living and working in Chicago, IL. He uses a queer lens to shape the realities captured in his films. He tells stories with people that push the boundaries of what it means to live and share the world with others.

No More Longing

Seven years after moving from Brazil to California to pursue his love of music, and four years after starting testosterone, Jaime Jobim searches for his new voice.

A surrealist mystery film. A trans woman is trying to outrun dangerous forces from her past. The question is: will she make it? Stay tuned.<a href="http://www.shawnavirago.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.shawnavirago.com</a>*Assistant Director: Sean Dorsey-----Shawna Virago is one of America’s first openly transgender women to tour nationally, performing as her true self since the early nineties. She is a pioneer in the pre-millennial punk scene, and is celebrated for her firebrand fusion of punk and country and her striking lyrics. Rainbow Rodeo said, “The fairy godmother of trans country artists, Virago writes and performs a potent mix of folk, alt-country, and punk that grew out of the crucible of eighties LA.” Her films have screened at film festivals around the world. Shawnavirago.com

Ghosts Cross State Lines

A surrealist mystery film. A trans woman is trying to outrun dangerous forces from her past. The question is: will she make it? Stay tuned.

In a poetic mix of dance, visual narrative, and documentary, Saturn Risin9 follows queer performance artist Saturn on their return home to the Bay Area. We follow their journey of perseverance centering self discovery, affirmation, healing and creative expansion poetically told through fantastical imagery. Using diary style interviews and talk-alongs intercut with high fantasy staged performance, the film portrays Saturn’s creative transformation through their dreams, trials, career and progression. The film begins and ends adjacent to one of the most toxic Superfund Sites in the city, Hunter’s Point Shipyard. The nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean after WWII which sickened populations there, were linked to the ships that came back to Hunter’s Point with radioactive debris - the toxic radiation washed into the water and soil. Saturn's journey through this space extends to their own personal struggles, paralleled with environmental and water issues that continue to this day. Saturn speaks to their own journey of transformation, healing with community, and finding space to thrive at the edges. This film highlights Saturn both as a storyteller in many different forms (word, dance, music) and as a protagonist through a character driven story of perseverance. Saturn Risin9 as a film exists as a byproduct of love, trust, and the determination to realize dreams, intended to be a never ending well of visual and lyrical affirmations.-----Tiare Ribeaux is a Kānaka ‘Ōiwi filmmaker based in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. Her films disrupt conventional storytelling methods by employing magical realist explorations of spirituality, labor, and the environment to critique both social and ecological imbalances. Her films use components of speculative fiction and fantasy to reimagine both our present realities and future trajectories of healing, queerness, lineage, and belonging. Ribeaux’s work traverses between the mundane and dreamworlds - creating stories around transformation and how our bodies are inextricably linked to land and water systems. She integrates immersion within community, personal/ancestral narratives, and Hawaiian cosmology into her films. Her work often combines with installation elements to create immersive and expanded media experiences. She has shown work both nationally and internationally, and has won numerous grants and awards for her artistic leadership including the Creative Capital Award, the NDN Radical Imagination Grant, the Native Lab Fellowship and Indigenous Film Fund from Sundance, two New and Experimental Works Grants from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, the Building Demand for the Arts Grant from the Doris Duke Foundation, and the Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund, among others. Jody Stillwater (周青海) (Co-Director) is a writer, director and creative technologist from the San Francisco Bay Area. His film and interdisciplinary project themes are based in dream logic and tactile reality, with a modern/transforming approach to visual semiotics &amp; archetype, grounded in Eastern rhizomatic systems and Western classical narrative. His cultural background as a Chinese/Norwegian/Cherokee-American amidst colliding waves of post-temporal diaspora and arrhythmic, intertidal class structures has influenced a value of justice, representation and the ethereal, and allowed him to express these values in experimental film, immersive installation and narrative cinema. He is a finalist for the SFFILM Kenneth Rainin Screenwriting Grant and has screened his films at the De Young Museum, YBCA, Mutek, ISEA 2019 South Korea, Marfa Film Festival, Choreoscope Int’l Dance Film Festival in Barcelona, Rockefeller’s Imagine Science Film Festival, Denver Film Festival, Bucharest Int’l Dance Film Festival, Copenhagen Fashion Film Festival, directed films for Google, Knotel, Bentley Mills, performed &amp; installed multiple new media projects at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Tribeca Film Festival Hacks Lab (incorporating film + technology), the San Francisco Dance Film Festival Co-Lab (built around choreography + film), appeared as a featured guest on Asian Pacific America with Robert Handa on NBC and was selected as the featured film artist at APAture 2018. He has received grants from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation and Fleischhacker Foundations.-----*Associate Producer: Saturn Risin9Drone Operator: Inti Fernandez, Max SchwartzSteadicam / 1st AC: Nick Schwyter2nd AC: Annie LiGaffer: Drew NelsonGaffer: Tej VirdiPA/Wardrobe: Najee ReneArt Department: Keri ShewmakerBTS: Deb Leal, Max SchwartzSecurity: VMA Security GroupStyling: Tiare Ribeaux, Saturn Risin9Costume: Zil Julie Vostalove, Helena Todd, Transformer Jacket, Yu Wei (EWIV), Yang Yue

Saturn Risin9

Queer performance artist and musician Saturn Risin9 returns home to the Bay Area to share their journey of perseverance centering self discovery, healing and creative expansion poetically told through documentary, dance, visual narrative, and performance.

United States of America

Program 1: Locally Brewed

Tickets

Student/Artist

Supporter

Community Access

2024 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival

Donation to {{name}}

Donate

Gift Cards

These are all the passes tied to your account. Now, use our online schedule to reserve tickets. You can access your tickets via {{my_tickets_link|"My Tickets"}} or via the PDFs attached to each ticket order confirmation email. {{buy_pass_link|Looking to buy more passes?}}

These are all your purchased tickets. Open this page on your phone, and at the door tap the "Show Barcode" button and show your screen to the attendant. Prefer paper? Print the PDF attached to the order confirmation email, or click one of the gears below and select "Download tickets PDF". If purchasing multiple tickets, be sure to print or show each unique ticket barcode.

None available

Passes

Explore our on-demand catalog here, and head over to the {{livestreams|Live Streams}} tab to see what's coming up.

Here's what's coming up soon. Can't make it? No sweat. Many live streams will be available for on-demand viewing as well.