TITLE: Bambi

DIRECTOR: Sébastien Lifshitz EDITOR: Tina Baz  |  Anne-Laure Viaud (assistant editor) PRODUCER: Carole Mirabello Daniel  | Chabannes de Sars (co-producer)  |  Corentin Dong-Jin Sénéchal (co-producer)

SYNOPSIS: Bambi was born Jean-Pierre Pruvot in a tiny Algerian village in 1935. Even as a child, she refused to meet the expectations of her extended family, choosing instead to find a way to become the woman she always knew herself to be. A Cabaret Carrousel de Paris performance in Algiers in the 1950s proved to be all the encouragement she needed to emigrate to the French capital, assume the stage name of ‘Bambi’ and lead the life she longed for on the music-hall stages. Jean-Pierre, known since then as Marie-Pierre, is now 77 years old. Hers is a story of deep-seated confusion, painful rejection and impassioned courage. An impressive collage of photographs and chansons, archive footage, excerpts from feature films, Super-8 clips and visits to the places of her childhood provides a sensitive chronicle of her liberating transformation into a radiant transsexual woman. TRAILER:

GENRE: BIOGRAPHY | DOCUMENTARY | FOREIGN  KEY THEMES & WORDS: CABARET | DRAG | MTF | TRANSEXUAL

RUNNING TIME: 58 MINS LANGUAGE: French

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sébastien Buchmann WRITTEN BY:  Sébastien Lifshitz SOUND BY: Jean-Christophe Lion | Carole Verner (sound editor) | Alexandre Widmer (sound re-recording mixer)

STARRING: Bambi (Herself as Marie-Pierre Pruvost)

RELEASE DATE:  19 June 2013 (France) DISTRIBUTED BY: Epicentre Films (2013) (France) (theatrical)

REVIEWS: AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS: The film won the Teddy Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival.

TITLE: Bol

ALTERNATE TITLE(S):  بول‎ (Urdu meaning Speak)

DIRECTOR: Shoaib Mansoor EDITOR: Armughan Hassan PRODUCER: Shoaib Mansoor

SYNOPSIS:  The film is about a religious Muslim family facing financial difficulties caused by too many children and changing times, with a major plot involving the father's desire to have another son and his rejection of his existing transgendered male-assigned-at-birth daughter. TRAILERS 1. THEATRICAL TRAILER:

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GENRE: BOLLYWOOD | CRIME | DRAMA | THRILLER  KEY THEMES & WORDS: KHAWAJAH SARA | MTF | PRISION | RELIGION | TRANSGENDER

RUNNING TIME: 165 MINS LANGUAGE: Urdu

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Salman Razzaq WRITTEN BY: Shoaib Mansoor MUSIC BY: Atif Aslam | Shoaib Mansoor | Sajjad Ali | Ahmed Jahanzeb | Hadiqa Kiyani

STARRING: Humaima Malik |  Atif Aslam |  Mahira Khan |  Iman Ali |  Shafqat Cheema | Amr Kashmiri |  Manzar Sehbai |  Zaib Rehman

RELEASE DATE: 24 June 2011 (Pakistan) | 31 August 2011 (India & United Kingdom)

DISTRIBUTED BY: Geo Films | Eros International Ltd.

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HELPFUL LINKS: 1. Official Site

TITLE: Tomboy

DIRECTOR:  Céline Sciamma EDITOR: Julien Lacheray PRODUCER: Rémi Burah  |  Bénédicte Couvreur

SYNOPSIS: A 10-year-old girl, settling into her new neighborhood outside Paris, is mistaken for a boy and has to live up to this new identity since it's too late for the mistake to be clarified. TRAILER:

   GENRE:  DRAMA | FICTION | FOREIGN KEY THEMES & WORDS: CHILDREN | FTM | TRANSGENDER 

RUNNING TIME: 82 MINS LANGUAGE: FRENCH

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Crystel Fournier WRITTEN BY:  Céline Sciamma MUSIC BY: Jean-Baptiste de Laubier

STARRING:  Zoé Héran  |  Malonn Lévana  |  Jeanne Disson

RELEASE DATE:  20 April 2011 (France) DISTRIBUTED BY:

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TITLE: The Ballad Of Genesis and Lady Jane

DIRECTOR: Marie Losier EDITOR: Marie Losier PRODUCER: Steve Holmgren | Marie Losier

SYNOPSIS: A documentary on artist music artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and his wife and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centered around the transformations the pair underwent for their Pandrogyne project. TRAILER:

  GENRE: BIOGRAPHY | CULT | DOCUMENTARY | ROMANCE

KEY THEMES: MTF | MUSIC | PANDROGYNE | TRANSITION 

RUNNING TIME: 72 MINS LANGUAGE: English

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Marie Losier MUSIC BY: Bryin Dall

STARRING: Genesis P-Orridge | Lady Jaye Breyer P'Orridge | Big Boy Breyer P'Orridge

RELEASE DATE: 26 OCTOBER 2011 (France) DISTRIBUTED BY: Adopt Films (USA 2012, Theatrical) | Arsenal (Germany 2011, Theatrical) | Epicentre Films (France 2011, Theatrical) | GoDigital Media Group (USA 2012, Video & Digital)

REVIEWS:  1. METACRITIC SCORE: 68 BASED ON 11 REVIEWS. 2. THE NEWYORKER (LISTED IN BEST FILMS OF 2012) 

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS:  GRAND PRIZE - Indilisboa  (Portugal) | TEDDY Award (Berlin Film Festival-Forum) | CALIGARI Award (Berlin Film Festival-Forum) | PRIX LOUIS MARCORELLES  & PRIX DES BIBLIOTHÈQUES - Cinema du Reel (France) | AUDIENCE Award - Bafici-Buenos Aires Film Festival (Argentina)  | ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT Award - Outfest Film Festival (USA-Los Angeles)  | SANFIC-SPECIAL MENTION - International Competition (Chile)  | AUDIENCE AWARD - Mention Speciale  -FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINEMA (Quebec)

HELPFUL LINKS 1. Official Website

TITLE: Mein Freund Aus Faro

ALTERNATE TITLE(S): Mein Freund Aus Faro (German - Original Title) | Mel & Jenny (France) | My Friend From Faro (UK) | To Faro (USA)

DIRECTOR: Nana Neul EDITOR: Dora Vajda PRODUCER: Hejo Emons

SYNOPSIS: Mel, a teenaged tomboy in a dead end job is obsessed with everything Portuguese. When she meets a beautiful girl Mel quickly decides that the only way to build a relationship with her is by assuming the identity of a Portuguese boy. TRAILER:

GENRE: DRAMA | ROMANCE  KEY THEMES & WORDS: CROSS-DRESSING | DISGUISE | FOREIGN | FTM | LESBIAN | TEENAGERS | TOMBOY 

RUNNING TIME: 93 MINS LANGUAGE: German | Portuguese 

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Leah Striker WRITTEN BY: Nana Neul MUSIC BY: Joerg Follert

STARRING: Anjorka Strechel | Lucie Hollmann | Manuel Cortez 

RELEASE DATE: 30 October 2008 (Germany) DISTRIBUTED BY: Alpenrepublik Filmverleih (Germany 2008, Theatrical) | Outplay (France 2011, All Media) | Peccadillo Pictures (UK 2010, All Media)

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TITLE: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

DIRECTOR: Clint Eastwood EDITOR: Joel Cox PRODUCER: Clint Eastwood

SYNOPSIS: This panoramic tale of Savannah's eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams: self made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant and semi-closeted homosexual. John Kelso a magazine reporter finds himself in Savannah amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on one of William's famous Christmas parties. He is intrigued by Williams from the start, but his curiosity is piqued when he meets Jim's violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead, and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial. Along the way he encounters the irrepressible Lady Chablis, a drag queen commedienne, Sonny Seiler, lawyer to Williams, whose famous dog UGA is the official mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs, an odd man who keeps flies attached to mini leashes on his lapels and threatens daily to poison the water supply, the Married Ladies Card Club, and Minerva, a spiritualist.  TRAILER:

GENRE: CRIME | DRAMA | MYSTERY | THRILLER  KEY THEMES & WORDS: BISEXUAL | DRAG QUEEN | MURDER | PROSTITUTE 

RUNNING TIME: 155 MINS LANGUAGE: English | French 

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jack N. Green WRITTEN BY:  John Berendt (Book) | John Lee Hancock (Screenplay) MUSIC BY: Lennie Niehaus

STARRING: John Cusack | Kevin Spacey | Jack Thompson 

RELEASE DATE: 21 November 1997 (USA) DISTRIBUTED BY: Warner Bros. (USA 1997, Theatrical) | Warner Bros. Entertainment (Canada, 1997 Theatrical)

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TITLE: One Zero One - Die Geschichte von Cybersissy & BayBjane

ALTERNATE TITLE(S): One Zero One: The Story of Cybersissy & BayBjane (English) 

DIRECTOR: Tim Lienhard EDITOR: Tim Lienhard | Frédéric Sapart PRODUCER: Tim Lienhard

SYNOPSIS: It is a 90-minutes documentale, a hybrid of documentary and fiction. It follows the life of 33-year-old Moroccan-German Mourad, who is 'the smallest drag queen of the world' and multi-disabled, and 48-year-old Dutch Antoine, who is a nightclub performer as well. Mourad experiments with his disabilities and is not in the closet like most of disabled people, but on stage of Parties on Ibiza amongst the most beautifully built go-go dancers. This is because schizophrenic Antoine, academic educated artist, discovered Mourads skills for being a performer. This movie is part documentary and the other part is fairy tale, arty, Camp-Style fiction, connected to what they talk about, think and dream about. Very visual, very fancy as well as experimental, but always entertaining and burlesque. TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk05l98wSfg GENRE: DOCUMENTARY | FICTION | FANTASY |  KEY THEMES: DRAG | MTF | DISABILITY RUNNING TIME: 90 MINS LANGUAGE: German

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Henry Grasse  | Tim Lienhard  | Till Müller  |  Stephan Schöbel

WRITTEN BY: Tim Lienhard MUSIC BY: Tobias Akly | Martin Woost

STARRING: Antoine Timmermans | Mourad Zerhouni | Gregory Rack 

RELEASE DATE: January 22 2014 DISTRIBUTED BY: Missingfilms

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TITLE: Offside

ALTERNATE TITLE(S): آفساید, (Persian: literally Offside) | Hors Jeu (Canda {French}) 

DIRECTOR:  Jafar Panahi EDITOR: Jafar Panahi PRODUCER: Jafar Panahi

SYNOPSIS: Offside is about a group of Iranian girls who attempts to enter Tehran's Azadi Stadium dressed as boys in order to watch a big football match but some get caught and arrested. After the establishment of the Islamic Republic in Iran, women are not allowed to enter the stadiums. TRAILER:

  GENRE: COMEDY | DRAMA | FOREIGN | SPORT KEY THEMES: CROSS-DRESSING | DISGUISE | FREEDOM |  FTM

RUNNING TIME: 93 MINS LANGUAGE: PERSIAN  COUNTRY: IRAN

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Rami Agami | Mahmoud Kalari WRITTEN BY: Jafar Panahi | Shadmehr Rastin MUSIC BY: Yuval Barazani | Korosh Bozorgpour

STARRING: Sima Mobarak-Shahi | Shayesteh Irani | Ayda Sadeqi 

RELEASE DATE: 10 September 2006 (Toronto International Film Festival) | 17 February 2006 (Berlin International Film Festival). DISTRIBUTED BY: Mongrel Media (2007) (Canada) (DVD) | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2007) (USA) (DVD)

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TITLE: Yazima Beauty Salon The Movie: Reaching a Nevada Dream 

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TITLE: What's the T?

DIRECTOR: Cecilio Asuncion EDITOR: David Sullivan PRODUCER: Cecilio Asuncion

SYNOPSIS:  What's the T is a documentary that explores the challenges, successes and lives of five trans gender women. These five women represent normality and abnormality, seamlessly in their daily efforts to achieve a balance of feminine and masculine as the day may require. These women are prime examples of reality and self-identity.  TRAILER:

GENRE: BIOGRAPHY | DOCUMENTARY    KEY THEMES:  ACTIVISM | COMING OUT  | GENDER |  DRAG | MTF | TRANSGENDER  | SEX WORK | TRANSEXUAL

RUNNING TIME: 89 MINS LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

CINEMATOGRAPHY: David Bowsky WRITTEN BY: Joshua Jones MUSIC BY: John Piscitello | Hytham Abou Youssef

STARRING: Nya Ampon | Rakash Armani | Cassandra Cass 

RELEASE DATE: 21 JUNE 2013 (USA) DISTRIBUTED BY:

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TITLE: Splice

ALTERNATE TITLE(S): Nouvelle Espèce 

DIRECTOR: Vincenzo Natali EDITOR: Michele Conroy PRODUCER: Steven Hoban

SYNOPSIS: Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals to create new hybrid animals for medical use. TRAILER:

GENRE: HORROR | SCI-FI  KEY THEMES: CYBORG THEORY | | |  RUNNING TIME: 104 MINS LANGUAGE: ENGLISH | FRENCH COUNTRY: CANADA | FRANCE | USA

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tetsuo Nagata WRITTEN BY: Vincenzo Natali MUSIC BY: Cyrille Aufort

STARRING: Adrien Brody | Sarah Polley | Delphine Chanéac

RELEASE DATE: 4 JUNE 2010 (USA) DISTRIBUTED BY: Warner Bros. (United States) | Optimum Releasing (United Kingdom) | Madman Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand)

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TITLE: The Curiosity of Chance

ALTERNATE TITLE(S): Chance' Highschool Abenteuer (German) | Saisir Sa Chance (French) | Любопытный Чэнс (Russian)

DIRECTOR: Russell P. Marleau EDITOR: Mark Rees PRODUCER: Lisa Schahet

SYNOPSIS: Chance Marquis, a confident, self-assured, quick-witted, perceptive, outspoken and clear-headed gay teenager, reflects back on his first year at an international high school. While meeting and making friends with an assortment of types, he also has the targeted attentions of a mirthless vice principal and a bullying, homophobic soccer jock out to make his life miserable. At home, Chance's perceptive little sister openly shares all his confidential secrets with their widowed career-army father seeking common ground with his atypical children. Introduced to a drag club, Chance finds fun and success in a cross-dressing contest, but a photo of his participation makes life at a school a living hell. Time to find out the depths of your friendships. TRAILER:

GENRE: COMEDY |  KEY THEMES: CROSS-DRESSING | DRAG | TEENAGERS  RUNNING TIME: 105 MIN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH COUNTRY: BELGIUM | USA

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jack Messitt WRITTEN BY: Russell P. Marleau MUSIC BY: Willie Aron | Josef Peters

STARRING: Tad Hilgenbrink | Brett Chukerman | Aldevina Da Silva

RELEASE DATE: 21 October 2006 DISTRIBUTED BY:

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TITLE: Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

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DIRECTOR: Craig Highberger EDITOR: Craig Highberger PRODUCER: Craig Highberger | Andrew La Barbera (executive producer) | Joey Preston

SYNOPSIS: Jackie Curtis is not a drag queen. Jackie is an artist. A pioneer without a frontier." -- Andy Warhol. Superstar in a Housedress examines the life and legend of Warhol transvestite superstar Jackie Curtis who was a poet, playwright, performer, and one of the great personalities of his time. Jackie both lived and performed sometimes as a man, sometimes as a woman - and died tragically of a drug overdose under bizarre circumstances when he was only 38. The film features on-camera interviews with actor Harvey Fierstein who played Jackie's mother in "Americka Cleopatra" when he was 18, Ellen Stewart, founder of LaMama Experimental Theater Club, John Vaccaro, founder of the Playhouse of the Ridiculous, Paul Morrissey, Director of the Andy Warhol films, and surviving superstars Holly Woodlawn and Joe Dallesandro, plus 24 other friends and colleagues of Jackie's. The film includes never-before-seen video and film clips of Jackie performing in stage plays including "Femme Fatale," "Glamour, Glory and Gold," and "Vain Victory: The Vicissitudes of the Damned." and cabarets. The music of jazz musician and composer Paul Serrato is featured, as is the photography of Jack Mitchell who took more photographs of Curtis and the Warhol crowd than any other professional. Interviews with media personalities, writers and editors put the work and life of Jackie Curtis in historical perspective. Narrated by Lily Tomlin. TRAILER: 

GENRE: BIOGRAPHY | DOCUMENTARY KEY THEMES: ARTIST | DRAG | TRANSGENDER  RUNNING TIME: 95 MINS LANGUAGE: ENGLISH COUNTRY: USA

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Craig Highberger WRITTEN BY: Craig Highberger MUSIC BY: Paul Serrato

STARRING:  Paul Ambrose | Michael André | Penny Arcade 

RELEASE DATE: 5 May 2004 (USA) DISTRIBUTED BY:

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TITLE: Velvet Goldmine 

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SYNOPSIS: 1971: Glamrock explodes all over the world and challanges the seriousness within the flowerpower generation by means of glitter and brutal music. Brian Slade, a young rockstar, inspires numerous teenage boys and girls to paint their nails and explore their own sexuality. In the end Slade destroys himself. Unable to escape the role he created for himself, he plots his own murder. When his fans discovers that the murder is a fake, his star falls and he is forgotten about. 1984: Arthur, a journalist working for a New York newspaper, gets assigned the story about the fake murder of Brian Slade. When Arthur was young and grew up in Manchester, he was more than a fan of Slade. Reluctantly he accepts the assignment and starts to investigate what happened his old glamrock hero.

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GENRE: CULT | DRAMA | MUSIC  KEY THEMES & WORDS:  BISEXUAL | CROSS-DRESS | DRAG   RUNNING TIME: 124 MINS LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Maryse Alberti WRITTEN BY: James Lyons | Todd Haynes MUSIC BY: Carter Burwell | Craig Wedren

STARRING: Ewan McGregor | Christian Bale | Toni Collette

RELEASE DATE: 23 October 1998 DISTRIBUTED BY: Goldwyn FIlms

TITLE: We Are The Mods

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DIRECTOR: E.E. Cassidy EDITOR: David Baum | Rob Poswall  PRODUCER: Miguel Arteta | E.E. Cassidy | Rob Poswall | Najarra Townsend

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CINEMATOGRAPHY: Alison Kelly | ob Poswall WRITTEN BY: E.E. Cassidy | Bruce Pavalon MUSIC BY: Jesse Felt

STARRING: Melia Renee | Mary Elise Hayden | Lance Drake

RELEASE DATE: 16 July 2010 DISTRIBUTED BY: Rica Jones Production

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TITLE: Schmuck der Strasse

ALTERNATE TITLE(S): Jewels of the Street

DIRECTOR: Rosa Baches | Dirk Manthey EDITOR:  PRODUCER:

SYNOPSIS:  Jewels of the Street. These are Eva, Kelly and a few other men from Venezuela who live and work in Hamburg St. Pauli in a microcosm of 'somewhat special women'. TRAILER: GENRE: Documentary | Biography KEY THEMES:  | | |  RUNNING TIME: 74 minutes LANGUAGE: Spanish

CINEMATOGRAPHY: WRITTEN BY: Rosa Baches | Dirk Manthey MUSIC BY:

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