Movies: Transsexual

Sex reassignment surgery is now almost a commonplace procedure, but back in the early 20th century, it was seen as 'science fiction surgery'. When the news broke of a successful first attempt, it was a sensation. This is the gripping story of three e...

Katia Tapety became the first trans woman elected as a politician in Brazil - councilwoman for three times and one time for vice-mayor. This film is the result of a 20-day-living period with her in her small town testifyng some of her experience and ...

A KGB agent comes to California to meet Jane Fonda and prepare for a Russian takeover of the US. After losing his papers, he connects with a band of homeless, overweight, and over-the-hill transvestites and becomes a punker in a Chinese restaurant ow...

Four members of a queer martial art club “Bender Defenders” in East London get together to celebrate trans people in sports through conversations about the necessity of anger, the pleasure of pain and the inevitability of friendship and joy as main t...

Xiao Bo lives in a world where the lines defining men from women are constantly dissolving. He kneels at the deathbed of his father who has become a woman, and whose dying wish is to have oral sex with his/her son. His boyfriend Nana has also undergo...

Procida, a little Island in the gulf of Naples. Last days of summer. The adolescence of Domenico is coming to an end, just like his tormented relationship with Marcello. Domenico looks for hospitality at Antonio's house, his best friend, but soon he ...

Nora is worried because she’s performing in a play at her school, but being bullied by her classmates make her face something much more important: being accepted by her dad. The following 17 minutes will change their relationship forever....

Sydney Kessler answers the phone call that no parent ever hopes to receive. He travels to the morgue. There, they unveil a body he doesn't recognize - his son Julian. Over the course of one night, Sydney embarks on a journey deep into the city to unc...

A transvestite is bedridden in a colorful room. A customer arrives, then a game of hide-and-seek, of pretense and confusion of feelings begins....

In this documentary, a Hollywood hopeful immersed in geek subculture decides it's time to tell the world that he loves transgender women....

At a very camp party in Paris, guests are told about a strange tom-tom played by an Andalusian gipsy, himself a character in a book by a young novelist present at the party. A frantic quest begins for a mysterious love-filter. Tam Tam shows desire a...

Veteran trannsexual performer Jayne County (formerly Wayne County) captured on film performing a storming full show with her backing group The Electric Chairs at Blackpool's "Holidays In The Sun" festival in 1996. Setlist: I Hate Today, Night Time, ...

This short tells the story about the existing boundary between what is masculine and feminine in the Peruvian LGBT community....

A pre-operative transsexual defies social barriers to announce to her boss and mother her intentions of marrying her lover Maurice....

This short documentary traverses the off-the-wall psyche of Generation Z by way of visionary 3D artist, Scum Boy - a young South African, Jewish trans man living his life with illuminating fearlessness....

Between the ages of two and three, children already know which gender they belong to. One in 10,000 males and one in 40,000 females feel the opposite gender to the one they were assigned at birth. The first signs of transsexuality can appear very ear...

A trans-cyborg searches for survival far-removed from the corporations’s biotechnopolitical control....

It wasn’t long until Ethan knew that he wasn’t Irene, meanwhile, Sarah wondered why it wasn’t the colour of her skin that made her feel so different from the others but, in fact, the stigma of living with HIV. Those are some of the stories from "DIVE...