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TITE
Trans Image/Trans Experience
Friday, 25 April 2025 until Sunday, 27 April 2025
Trans Image/Trans Experience (TITE) Film Festival is Ireland's first festival of trans and non-binary cinema, taking place from 25-27 April 2025 in the Light House Cinema!
Through screenings of short and feature films from Ireland and the international trans filmmaking community, TITE aims to shift the focus of trans film from representation to craft, championing trans and non-binary filmmakers and fostering lasting connections between artists and audiences.
TITE seeks to expand audiences' understandings of trans cinema through a unique festival of exciting and engaging film, from mainstream cinema to fringe DIY filmmaking.
2025 films...
Ponyboi (Opening Film)
Principal Boy (2024, UK, 21') [OC].
Dir/Writ: Maz Murray
An audition, rehearsal, and performance of the central character in British pantomime, known as the ‘principal boy’.
Façade (2024, UK/Spain, 2')[S]
Dir: Sophia Vi
Following Facial Feminisation Surgery, a trans woman contemplates what it means to be alive through the words of William Shakespeare.
Club Chrome: Fxckery (2023, Australia, 13') [OC].
Dir/Writ: Arundati Thandur
Club Chrome, an Australian LGBTQIA+ pole dance collective, prepare for the Sydney World Pride premiere of their dynamic, high-production pole dance performance showcasing artists within Sydney’s LGBTQIA+, POC, and sex work communities.
Stay Awake (2024, Ireland, 3')
Dir/Writ: Aoife O’Byrne
Something sinister has taken over Simon's dreams, making it increasingly difficult to tell where the nightmare ends and reality begins.
Skin (2023, USA, 7')
Dir/Writ: Leo Behrens
A poetic exploration of self-discovery in which a woman meets her inner self, shedding old skin and embracing a new identity.
True Receiver (2025, USA, 4')
Dir: Judebird
A work of hand-painted 16mm film evoking the motion of leaving earth, burrowing deep into time and space and coming out the other side.
The Insect Graveyard (2025, Portugal, 20') [S]
Dir/Writ: Alex Simões
Where were you when you realized the irreversibility of death? Through grief, Alex recreates their childhood in a mechanic's workshop, transforming memory into a performance space for overcoming loss.
Smile (2024, UK, 1') [S]
Dir/Writ: Elle Short
A collection of facts from the internet.
Atmospheric Arrivals (2023, Canada, 6') [S]
Dir/Writ: Ayo Tsalithaba
A restless spirit travels through time, space and memory, exploring intersections of queer and diasporic identity.
Terratoma (2024, Ireland, 24') [OC]
Dir/Writ: Liadán Roche
Trying to recreate a traumatic relationship, Alice begins an invasive and deeply personal film project, dragging her loved ones into the film and destroying their relationships for her art.
Do Digital Curanderas Use Eggs In Their Limpias? (2023, USA, 14') [S]
Dir/Writ: Roberto Fatal
A struggling Latine healer considers abandoning the physical world for promises of a digital utopia.
Support (2023, USA, 4') [OC]
Dir/Writ: Marco Chiong
Two kids cheer up their trans parent on shot day.
Stagmite (2025, USA, 13')
Dir/Writ: Sydney Violet Gray
A trans girl moves into an apartment with two cis roommates who will go to brutal measures to push her out.
das-y’a huearta (2024, Ireland, 6') [OC]
Dir: Louise Cronly.
Writ: Louise Cronly + Ella Shanahan
A woman is haunted by a mysterious logo that appears on her screen.
Dragking Highway (2024, France, 19') [S]
Dir/Writ: Junes Dreyfus
A digital road movie exploring the different rhythms, layers and textures of transfem hitchhiking.
Dog Movie (2024, USA, 51') [S]
Dir: Henry Hanson
Writ: Jesi Gaston, Henry Hanson, Marten Katze, Milo Talwani
A passive-aggressive tenderqueer couple sends their household into a quiet tailspin when they adopt an elderly dog with the same name as the unemployed couch surfer they just can’t seem to confront.
Night Glances (2024, Ireland, 19')
Dir/Writ: Sam Ahern
Romantic realisations between two best friends turn awkward when classmates and crushes call over to an end-of-school party – but the chaos of misunderstanding leads to a hazy truth.
Vapor Trails (2023, USA, 11') [S]
Dir/Writ: Willow Skye-Biggs
In 1997, against a backdrop of distant violence, two displaced trans women seek transcendence through connection.
iykyk (2024, India, 18') [S]
Dir/Writ: Bonita Rajpurohit
Kusum navigates the prying questions and overfamiliarity of dating as a trans woman in India.
School Birds (2024, UK 6')
Dir: Quentin Corker-Marin, Felix Marrington-Reeve
Writ: Quentin Corker-Marin
Pushed to breaking point by the pressures of conformity, a primary school teacher gives in to his inner desires and begins to fly. Will the school's caretaker accept him, and can he find the strength to accept himself?
UPSTAGE (2024, USA, 3')
Dir/Writ: Sahara Sheikh
Two dancers with contrasting styles clash in spectacular fashion, but when they come face to face their contention is overcome with a powerful sensation.
Toxic Astrology Ex-Best Friends (2024, USA, 11')
Dir: Jack Warren.
Writ: Dina Fulconis, Forest Smotrich-Barr
Arla and Emmie, two witchy best friends, host a queer relationship advice podcast together. But Arla has a secret she can’t talk about on mic: She has a crush on Emmie.
Colour Me Pink (2024, Ireland, 3')
Dir: Anika O'Hagan-Ploug
A stop-motion music video for the indie-pop song ‘Colour Me Pink’ by K E L, depicting a heartwarming story of young queer love.
Bender Defenders (2024, UK, 15') [S]
Dir: Ira Putilova
Members of a queer martial art club come together in intimate sparring bouts and conversations about the beauty of anger, the importance of trans and non-binary people in sports, and joy as the main tool of resistance.
Chestbound (2024, USA, 18') [OC]
Dir/Writ: Janine Anne Uyanga
Following Ray’s top surgery, intimate moments with their chosen family are interrupted by the news of their father’s stroke, but returning home to see him would mean confronting Ray’s estranged mother.
doyousee.html (2024, Australia, 5') [S]
Dir/Writ: Aether Docherty
Scrolling the dark edges of the internet, Ash finds a strange website that unlocks something within them and begins a cosmic haunting.
GLORY, HOLE (2023, Germany/Ireland, 17') [S]
Dir/Writ: Hiram Harrington
Two gay men, one cis and one trans, clash at a nightclub glory hole when one tries to castrate the man he believes raped him.
Gloria (2024, Greece, 6')
Dir/Writ: Nikos Mpouyioukas, Fenia Apostolou
An invitation to experience life through the eyes of the titular Gloria, a trans woman and sex worker navigating the streets of contemporary Athens through dance.
Beyond the Golden Line (2024, Germany, 19') [S]
Dir/Writ: SJ Rahatoka
The moon is shining and the night is feverish. Preparing to pole dance at a queer club, an injured Black transmasculine dancer is interrupted by mysterious phone calls. Could the magic of his pole reconnect him with the people he loves, and reveal his full radiance?
second born son: a transsexual documentary (2024, USA, 11')
Dir: Merit Thursday
A transsexual frog is born, gets ‘the sex change’, receives his tissue back from the doctor, and buries his body gently in the earth.
The Performance (2023, Netherlands, 20') [S]
Dir/Writ: Claire Zhou
Chorister Lin is preparing her solo performance for the Chinese New Year celebration at her church when rumors start circulating about her family. Will she hide from the community or show her true self?
Overtone (2024, Ireland, 5') [S]
Dir: Hiram Harrington
A low-budget, high-tension music video for queer Irish punk band Touch Excellent.
7G: The Fight Against Phones (2024, USA, 8') [S]
Dir/Writ: David Leo, April Evelyn Oxford
In a near future, Pascadia, an outsider in a rebellious but ultimately ineffective group of humans, is struck by lightning and transformed into a digital superwoman.
Sex Change: Shock! Horror! Probe! + Q&A
Stress Positions (Closing Film + Awards)