Fragments - Episode 2 (United Kingdom) by Mélodie Roulaud

When we discuss and depict the body, we refer to something both tangible and imagined, with unclear boundaries and a complex relationship to the 'self'. This portrait of model Venus Baginski, the second episode of Fragments, takes an introspective journey into their understanding and experience of their body. 

Running time: 00:03:00

Unscarred (Belgium) by Théo Roland

This is the story of the evolving relationship between a mother and her son. The mother is bipolar and has violent outbursts. After years, the mother becomes stable, and they decide to make a film together, playing themselves in it. This move symbolizes the end of their chaotic journey.

Running time: 00:21:30

I Kiss Your Hand, Madame (Hungary, Belgium, Portugal, Philippines) by Jeremy Luke Bolatag

After living a heteronormative life for 50 years, Mónika finally goes through with her orchiectomy. The filmmaker follows Mónika’s first steps in her gender-affirmation journey as a transwoman: her new relationship with her body and with her biological 11-year old son, Gabi, as she also navigates the repressive Orbán regime in Hungary.

Running time: 00:18:00

All About My State (Poland) by Piotr Jacoń

***** Doc.Berlin, Viewpoint Documentary Film Festival

In Poland, transgender people have to take their parents to court to have their gender designation corrected on their documents. Formally, this is the only way. In addition to tremendous stress and the humiliation of taking the testimony, the family faces uncertainty, because in Poland there are no clear regulations on how such a hearing should look. The court has a lot of freedom, and the prosecutor can join the proceedings at any stage, as it happened in the case of 20-year-old transgender Florian and his mother Agata, the protagonists of Piotr Jacon's documentary.  

Running time: 00:40:32