Kiel's Transgender Film Festival 2016 Announces Its Line-up

The Transgender Film Festival in Kiel, Germany, returns this year for another edition running from April 14th to 17th. It’s taken the perhaps surprising decision to screen Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall – a movie many took issue with and accused it of marginalising gender non-confirming people’s importance to the Christopher Street riots, while focusing on a cisgender, white man.

However, the organisers of the Transgender Film Festival hope that their programme sparks debate, and it is a very rare chance to see the film on the big screen in Europe, due to the fact that after its abysmal box office and the anger it induced in the US, it still hasn’t been released in many other countries, and those it has have had little or no cinema release.

Stonewall certainly isn’t the only film screening at the fest, with numerous other shorts and feature-length movies that feature trans* characters or themes being given a showcase at the fest, including Tangerine, Rocky Horror Picture Show and The New Girlfriend (Une Nouvelle Amie). There will also be many from the UK, and you can get a taste for some of those below.

BOXX
by Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
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THE DANISH GIRL
by Tom Hooper