Sophia Dros: Trans and American Serviceman

sophia dros: There's a strong selection of trans and non-binary content in this year's festival, which runs from May 24 to June 3, according to NOW Magazine. Documentary programming includes Sophia Dros's Genderbende, about five young Dutch people who identify as non-binary or genderqueer and the way they negotiate daily life; T Cooper's Man Made, a look at four trans men training for the world's only all-trans bodybuilding competition; Kiko Goifman and Claudia Priscilla's Bixa Travesty, celebrating the Brazilian trans artist Quebrada, and PJ Raval's Hot Docs hit Call Her Ganda, recounting the attempt to prosecute an American serviceman for the murder of a trans woman in the Philippines.A number of shorts continue the conversation, including Milena Salazar and Joella Cabalu's Do I Have Boobs Now about trans activist Courtney Demone's efforts to challenge Instagram's image restrictions and Mary Evangelista's Fran This Summer, about a teenager in transition. The Inside Out film festival announced its 2018 lineup today, and it's packed the 28th edition of the festival will screen 49 features and 84 shorts from a total of 27 countries, all dedicated to exploring and illuminating LGBTQ issues. Trans issues also feature strongly in Luis De Filippis's Sundance winner For Nonna Anna and Chandler Levack's We Forgot To Break Up, which both premiered at TIFF last year. Canary, Christiaan Olwagen's musical drama about a young man coming of age in Apartheid-era South Africa, makes its world premiere as the festival's Centerpiece, while Amy Adrion's documentary Half The Picture, a documentary taking stock of female filmmakers in American cinema, will receive its Canadian premiere as this year's Women's Gala. Silas Howard's A Kid Like Jake, starring Claire Danes and Jim Parsons as the parents of a gender-fluid four-year-old, was announced as the opening night film last month, but now we know Inside Out 2018 will close with the international premiere of Brett Haley's Hearts Beat Loud, starring Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemons as a father and daughter whose close relationship is fractured when they start a band together and have an unexpected hit. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.