WE ARE HER (80 MIN)This program features short films highlighting notable trans women from the past and present who have acted in the struggle for liberation and cut paths for us to follow today. From Reconstruction Era Memphis, to the Tenderloin, to 90’s daytime talk shows, these fierce women will make you proud of our history and inspire you to shape the world for future generations.

Three years before Stonewall, on an unknown date in August 1966, trans sex workers and drag queens in San Francisco's Tenderloin district rioted against police violence at Gene Compton's Cafeteria. There was no news coverage, and the arrest records no longer exist. Decades later, trans historian Susan Stryker unearthed the history of the riot and interviewed the surviving Compton’s Queens. Compton's ’22 creates an intergenerational conversation between these oral histories and trans artists today, using performance to imagine an interpretive archive that stands in for the absence of historical documentation. The film aims to counter the erasure and deradicalization of our history, and underscore the crucial role of intergenerational knowledge and solidarity in the ongoing struggle for queer liberation.

Compton's '22

Dita Rita Scholl has been an actor and pioneer of queer performance art since the 1970s. Having experienced frequent rejection throughout life, Rita developed a strong longing for physical and emotional touch. LONGING IN ME provides intimate insight into the search for human connection and how this endless hunger can be satisfied through tantric rituals.

Longing In Me

While planning a birthday party for her late aunt Bianca “Exotica” Maldonado, María José Maldonado revisits the past in order to celebrate and correct Bianca’s legacy as a transgender woman.

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My Fierce Aunt Bianca

This story starts with Milva, the popular italian diva and her most known song "Alexanderplatz". Just a few know though that this song is in reality an adaptation of Alfredo Cohen's song "Valery", released in 1978. "Valery" was a 15 years old trans teenager, now known as activist Valérie Taccarelli.

Valery Alexanderplatz

WE ARE HER 

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