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From Trans Coast to Coast to Coast: New Trans Canadian Cinema

🕒 7:00 PM
📅 September 17, 2025

Come on a journey across provinces and cultures, as this collection of short films celebrates emerging voices, artists and filmmakers in Canadian trans cinema.

General Admission

$13.00

TICKET BUNDLE OFFER: Get 15% off automatically when you purchase tickets to four different screenings in a single order. Or go all in with a Festival Pass for guaranteed access to all events and workshops!

Festival Pass
$ 99.00

Description

NIKITA

Haunted by a secret fixation, a varsity rower must come clean after she crosses an irreparable line with a crew mate.

Dairy Boy

A young trans man returns to his family’s farm in rural southern Ontario following his grandfather’s death, and must navigate the discomforts of familial rural life with his father.

Collective Resistance

Told from the perspectives of 2SLGBTQ+ Afro-Indigenous leaders and activists, this short documentary intends to reimagine new possibilities for relationships between Blackness and Indigeneity which is rooted in solidarity and joy.

Iconic

ICONIC is a raw, unapologetic blend of music video, experimental cinema, and queer manifesto. Featuring the original song ICONIC, this fully independent short is powered by an all-trans and non-binary team. No budget safety net. No rules. Just pure self-expression.

Anyway, J’Pisse Assis

Three friends embark on a journey back to their hometown while Sasha, recovering from his gender-affirming surgery, dreams of swimming shirtless at his childhood beach.

Walk Me Home

Axis, an anxious enby, braves a late night walk home alone where they encounter a supernatural swelling of fears.

Pan & Syrinx

In the last gentle breaths of bacchanale, two lovers are told the tale of the great god Pan’s violent pursuit of the forest nymph Syrinx. The film refracts the myth through layers of song, identity, and performance: at once a ballet, a trans fantasia, and an exploration of love and power.

we’re sitting at the lake and we’re asking ourselves is it getting dark yet

“On April 8th as we sat at the lake, a whole city of there on the rocks and boardwalk, I watched a plane descend towards Billy Bishop while I could still look up.” A poetic experimental short shot during the 2024 eclipse.

Family Values

In this comedy-drama, a trans-South Asian person visits their family for Rakhi, a Hindu religious ceremony that symbolizes the bond between brothers and sisters. Celebrating a ceremony that is so centered around gender, this non-binary character must reconcile their gender identity with their deeply rooted family values.

b.longing

where do we belong; what do we long for? b.longing is a short poetic home video/documentary that explores the question of belonging from within our neo-colonial, imperialist context. Questions of race, nationality, queerness, work, place and time are explored through a visual language rooted in frank discussions between loved ones. In the end, it’s this exact familial dynamic—and the process of making the movie itself—that begins to answer these questions.

Event Details

Date: September 17, 2025

Start time: 19:00 EDT

Venue: Union Française de Montréal

Coordinates: 429 Avenue Viger E, Montréal, QC H2L 2N9

Directions: Union Française is just a 4‑minute walk from Champ‑de‑Mars Metro station (Orange Line) and a 7‑minute walk from Berri–UQAM. You can also arrive by bus (14, 30, 50, 150, 350, 361, 445) or bike. The venue is fully accessible. The front entrance has a few steps, but our back entrance is step‑free. We’ll have clear signs to guide you to the accessible entrance.

Montréal’s first trans film festival.

EXPOSURES exists on the territories of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation, who are the custodians of the land and waters of Tio’tia:ke (Montreal). Alongside this necessary but inadequate territorial recognition, we demand restitution and reparation for Indigenous peoples across all of “Canada”.

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