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The Shapes We Take: Trans Embodiment(s)

🕒 5:40 PM
📅 September 20, 2025

Thinking through and beyond notions of “the body”, this programme explores ways in which we seek and ultimately find connection with ourselves and each other.

General Admission

$13.00

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$ 99.00

Description

Wing Story

Wing Story is an atmospheric short film about a woman who grows wings and loves them, only to have her new sense of self shattered by the reactions, and perceived reactions, of those around her.

Edith and the Tall Child

A hand-drawn film about hair, dysphoria, and the growing pains of a repeating puberty. It follows the titular Tall Child as they outgrow their tiny apartment, their gender, and their hallucinatory giant ground sloth Edith.

RAT+CAMMIE=FOREVER

“RAT+CAMMIE = FOREVER” unfolds as a love story of two unlikely beings. The narrative centres around Cammie, a personified webcam harboring dreams of becoming a live-streamer, and Rat, an introverted rodent girl. The two are brought together on the fictitious digital self-help app, “BetterHell.”

IMMATURE

IMMATURE is an animated documentary that explores the fluidity and complexity of gender identity through the lens of body imagery. The film delves into the evolving experiences of a transgender gay man, capturing the nuances of his self-exploration. By highlighting the beauty in the ongoing process of becoming, challenging societal norms and conventional gender frameworks.

The Hypochondriac Whore

In the shower, sex worker Taavi reflects on his work and anxieties.

Nights in the Glitter UnDojo – KAy’s 119th T-shot

KAy Garnellen, a transgender sex worker, gets a special Testo-shot from his friends.

Vollúpya

In a post-apocalyptic future, an intergalactic explorer lands at an abandoned museum on a quest to find traces of his long-lost ancestors, and ends up being teleported to the dance floor of a Brazilian queer nightclub in the 1990s.

I Have Something To Get Off My Chest

Combining traditional filmmaking with stunning mixed media animation, this is a personal and intimate look at the process of caretaking and recovery post-top surgery.

Care and Tenderness

Two trans dykes interview one another about connection, community, kink, and sexuality. In this DIY Super-8 film, the artists seek to document and explore their embodied, trans-for-trans and butch-femme relationship through the frameworks of kink and the everyday.

Thank You For Your Love

2 dogs timidly grapple to seek intimacy in this gorgeous, bouncy hand-drawn animated short.

I See

“I See” is a poetic documentary that follows a day in the life of a trans woman. Through first-person images and an intimate narration, it reveals the contrasts between care and oppression, showing the world she sees — and that sees her back.

What To Wear

What to Wear is a short experimental documentary exploring the quiet codes of butch and transmasculine fashion. A chorus of overlapping audio reflections meditates on personal style to granular detail, complemented by rhythmic, tactile, stop-motion imagery of garments: folds, seams, stitches, and textures in motion.

Event Details

Date: September 20, 2025

Start time: 17:40 EDT

End time: 19:30 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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