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Exposures: Montréal Trans Film Festival
Thursday, 19 September 2024 until Sunday, 22 September 2024
Montréal’s first-ever Trans Film Festival will take place across the city and online between 19 – 22 September 2024. EXPOSURES is planned as a multi-year festival by, for and about our Trans* community (Trans, Non-Binary, Gender Non-Conforming, Intersex and Two-Spirit), the first of its kind in Canada in over 20 years!
Our inaugural edition will feature trans film premieres, workshops, parties, and discussion panels, as well as a special screening celebrating the rich history of Quebecois trans film.
The Festival will feature an Audience Prize and A Best Short Film Award.
Unfortunately, as this is our first edition, there will be no cash or in-kind prizes.
2024 films...
Canadian Premiere of Henry Hanson's "Dog Movie" + Q&A
Join us for a very special opening night! We'll start with a reception where you can say hi to your favourite trans cuties, followed by the Canadian Premiere of Henry's new film, "Dog Movie". Henry will be in attendance, ready to answer all your burning questions after the screening.
Film synopsis: 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.
Trans Ecologies: In the garden of earthly delights
In The Garden of Earthly Delights explores the connection between bodies and spaces - the ways in which we inhabit, exhibit, through the experience of sensations and inhibitions. Inspired by the name of the Bosch painting, the aim is to celebrate the relationships that are enabled through the fostering of community; this extends not only to those we call friends, muses, lovers but also to our connection with the Earth and all that it provides.
experimenta
From the dreamlike merging of bodies on celluloid film to an opera on trans liberation, our screening of experimental filmmaking celebrates artists working outside the norms of traditional filmmaking.
One Day League: Dead Mother, Dead All
In this heartwarming ensemble comedy, Mary’s adoptive gay mother’s last dying wish was to reunite their all-queer volleyball team. Even with the challenges that she is faced with, including her own personal affairs, and financial troubles, Mary tries to fulfil the wish. She must convince her disjointed chosen family to join the one day volleyball league, with hopes of winning the cash grand prize to pay for a proper funeral for Mary’s mother.
video nasty: blood, guts and body horror
Bold and provocative, this programme is an homage to the enduring relationship between queerness and transgressive art. Horror, filth and bad taste abound in a late night screening not for the faint of heart.
trans havens: you and me against the world
An exploration of care and support, this programme looks at our relationships with family, friends, coworkers, communities, and our own bodies. Trans Havens asks: Where do we turn to find comfort, home, and belonging?
every time i die
“Every Time I Die” is a dark, poignant hybrid feature film that blends documentary with fiction. The film’s testimonies, along with surreal and fantastic scenes, come together to narrate death viewed from different angles: as related to transfeminicides and as social death that seeks to nullify through exclusion and silence those seen as uncomfortable by others. “Every Time I Die” is an invitation to shake off mourning through delirious weeping or through sagacious bursts of laughter, with the aim of seeing death through the eyes of those who radiate life, celebrate life, and struggle for life.
TRANS xcx: a hyperpop adventure
Transcending genres, limits, and the human body, this night of hyperpop dares to show us what’s possible on the other side. A collection of films from artists that embrace the chaos of the digital world and absolute aesthetic maximalism.
giddy up, cowboy: screening & line dancing
Spurs, saddles, and the open plains. Bring your best pair of boots and your hottest pair of chaps to enjoy a series of queer Westerns with us. Stay after the screening for a night of line dancing!
Cereal and Cartoons: Trans Edition
Recapture that feeling of waking up early on a weekend morning to watch some funky cartoons. Bring your favourite sugary cereal and cozy in to watch this showcase of animation from queer and trans artists, inclusive and family-friendly.
heartbeats: tales of love and desire
This collection is all about the steamy, sweet, unexpected, and heart-wrenching ways we love each other. From flirty flings to ridiculous rom coms, this programme is sure to tug at your heartstrings.
we exist: trans out & about
Films that paint a picture of the everyday lives of trans people out in the world as they navigate spaces such as work, prison, memory, or the late night commute home.
closing screening: transquebec - a retrospective of quebecois trans cinema
While the rest of our festival focuses on the present and future of trans cinema, our closing screening pays homage to the Quebecois trans pioneers without whom none of this would be possible. This event will take you on a journey across the history of trans cinema in the province, followed by a Q&A with the featured artists.