It is so 2025 that a film with a trans storyline that the trans community fucking despises wins some of the most prestigious film awards in the world and the cisgender winners don’t even mention what’s happening to the trans community in the very country they’re accepting the awards in - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

bernietranders.bsky.social • 22 hours ago

It is so 2025 that a film with a trans storyline that the trans community fucking despises wins some of the most prestigious film awards in the world and the cisgender winners don’t even mention what’s happening to the trans community in the very country they’re accepting the awards in

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blackdelphinium.bsky.social•19 hours ago

One of the first trans films I ever saw was the 1997 Belgian film Ma Vie en Rose.

A bit outdated now, but wonderfully moving.

drgs100.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Thank you for the succinct summary.

theomegageek.bsky.social•22 hours ago

It's dragface, is what it is.

iwantyoustudio.bsky.social•11 hours ago

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khloedawn.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Yes seems right….

deathspeaker.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Feels extremely on-brand for the way the world is right now.

corleissen.com•9 hours ago

It’s not a perfect movie, but Boy Meets Girl (2014) is genuinely charming and has a trans lead actress.

Ma Vie En Rose (1997) is dated but still a touching portrait of one trans kid and her family’s journey through gender.

lenalily227.bsky.social•17 hours ago

📌

falschspieler.com•15 hours ago

Petty people in Hollywood ignore the trans community. Again.
We’ll be right back.

kanna-banana.bsky.social•19 hours ago

remember the "my culture is not a costume" stuff from a few years ago?

starting to think they stopped pretending they care about minorities outside of a funny theme to dress their bad products in

guessweredone.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Arthur it was such a bad movie can't stop thinking about the surgery song

bernietranders.bsky.social•21 hours ago

I love that Google lists it as crime/musical because that song in particular is a crime

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ellierabbit.bsky.social•20 hours ago

The boring answer is that the lead character wanted to walk away from the drug cartels.

carrieonbaggage.bsky.social•22 hours ago

HELL YES! 👏

rachelh.bsky.social•19 hours ago

She did come back afterwards and *checks notes* apologized to Mexico, but still didn't mention trans people

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/zoe-saldana-apologizes-mexicans-emilia-perez-1236325779/

acenterforantz.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Nah, she apologized that Mexicans felt offended.

hermeticopus.bsky.social•11 hours ago

The non-apology is the single most gutless innovation to come out of the corporate-political morass and I hate it.

bernietranders.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I’m not a film guy by any stretch of the imagination (haven’t seen Titanic or The Godfather, for example) so if anyone has any suggestions for actually good trans films pls reply to this skeet so anyone looking to watch a good one can find some suggestions

swordznsorcery.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Different For Girls. 1996, so maybe not perfect. I'd like to think they'd use a trans woman in the lead role now, though the casting does work extremely well. But it's a lovely little film, which deals with everything unflichingly.

gavinpringle.bsky.social•21 hours ago

I really liked Transamerica when it came out.

gavinpringle.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Also: Girl (2018), Boys Don't Cry (1999), and Orlando (1992)

weltkarte.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Boys Don't Cry is a well-made film but extremely upsetting/triggering so I wouldn't really recommend trans people watch it

bratapfel.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Same for Girl. It is very bleak leaning into self harm and misery. Just a feel bad movie about queer youth as a tragedy.

marimurphy.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Maria is amazing — it’s really beautifully shot!! National Anthem is also great (and I think same cinematographer). Titane if you like horror lol, but it’s a lot.

voodoog.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Matrix

kallibutterfly.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Try to dig out for "Una Mujer Fantástica" - A Fantastic Woman, for a much more realistic version. The actress Daniela Vega is also actually trans. She took the Oscar home in 2018.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5639354/

kallibutterfly.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Another good recommend is the drama-comedy "Tangerine", about two trans sex workers in L.A. Again, both actresses are openly trans. Shot on iphones 5S', no big budgets for us when it represents reality.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3824458/

kallibutterfly.bsky.social•15 hours ago

And here's a nice list for you to check out of trans men cinema :)

https://letterboxd.com/posvideography/list/the-best-of-trans-men-in-cinema/

popculturebash.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Thanks for that! That’s a great list!

jordanpfot.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Crossing!

dltkw.bsky.social•22 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/trans.bsky.social/post/3ljgw6pyvmk2b

bernietranders.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Thank you!

skirtndocs.bsky.social•19 hours ago

https://mubi.com/films/playback-2019?utm_source=app_share&utm_medium=android

islandgoth.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I Saw the TV Glow came out last year and it was excellent.

eugenbuehler.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Excellent, but also devastating emotionally. Watched it with my son and both of us needed a few days to recover.

khloedawn.bsky.social•4 hours ago

6 sense has a trans girl in it?! Loved the movie…ironically i watched it before i came out and didnt know she was trans until 3/4 into the movie. Had to rewatch it a few times to keep up.

obol.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Trans filmmakers:
Horror: Alice Maio Mackay. Her feature films are available on Shudder.

Messy slice of life: Louise Weard's Castration Movie Anthology [note: contains unsimulated sex]

Indie drama: By Hook or by Crook (Harry Dodge & Silas Howard, 2001) & Lingua Franca (Isabel Sandoval, 2019)

obol.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Good films by cis people:
Dressed in Blue (Antonio Giménez-Rico, 1983)
Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)
Bambi (2013) and Casa Susanna (2022) by Sébastien Lifshitz
P.S. Burn This Letter Please (Jennifer Tiexiera & Michael Seligman, 2020) [note: primarily about drag]

obol.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Shitty Oscar bait for cis people:
Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Pierce, 1999)
Girl (Lukas Dhont, 2018)
The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper, 2015)
Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Vallée, 2013)

virtualparadise.bsky.social•18 hours ago

the peoples joker

amzsa.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Hello My friend Arthur
I'm really sorry for bothering you every time and I say I hope it's the last but I swear it's getting worse and worse so please if you could boost the pinned post?
I will be grateful to you for the rest of my life

ashbasher22nerd.bsky.social•17 hours ago

This film is much better:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Danish_Girl_(film)

twentyweasels.bsky.social•10 hours ago

It really isn’t.

ashbasher22nerd.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Yes it is.

It actually takes back to what Transgender Surgeries back in the 1900s.

It may have a cis actor, but it's incredibly captivating as a narrative imo.

jumpinjaqx.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Monica was an excellent one from last year not yet mentioned in the replies.

hexadecibelle.bsky.social•20 hours ago

support @tgirlsonfilm.bsky.social and see banger films on the big screen 🩷

anna-bagels.bsky.social•17 hours ago

I really liked Tangerine (2015)

samhogarth26.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I really enjoyed Cowboys (2020) and Rurangi (2020)

therockisdead.bsky.social•21 hours ago

The guy who just won Best Picture made a great trans film a few years back called Tangerine (was also entirely shot on a couple of iPhone 5s).

ogxtina.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Tangerine is how I found Sean Baker's work and I haven't missed one of his movies since. Also, he's a vocal supporter of sex workers, I can't think of anyone in Hollywood who has ever focused on that community in a way where they're not just the punchline.

jacklikesfilms.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I Saw the TV Glow

saudades.bsky.social•20 hours ago

such a perfect movie

alexstaniforth.bsky.social•28 minutes ago

If you like horror and don’t mind low budget I quite liked Carnage for Christmas. Trans lead and it matters that she’s trans and coming back to a small town but it’s not, imo, horribly cringe.

plutopsyche.nicomaramckay.com•18 hours ago

Close to You was the best film I watched in 2024.

samanthaduke.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Omg it was so GOOD 💖

samanthaduke.bsky.social•17 hours ago

The fact that the protagonist's name is Sam obv has nothing to that 😉

For real tho, one of my top films from last year, up there with Love Lies Bleeding (my favorite from 2024) and I Saw the TV Glow 💖

dailek1968.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Oh... sounds like a great movie link please I'm not gay but I love a great and flamboyant..ok ....fuck off ...movie ...I just like good movies and there's so few of them today....

seriousanddeep.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Go watch I Saw The TV Glow.

averyofbirds.bsky.social•22 hours ago

And the award for least surprising thing goes to

tradingsmiles.bsky.social•14 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/tradingsmiles.bsky.social/post/3ljiedbekas2p

valisir153.bsky.social•22 hours ago

😭😭😭😭😭😭

stormknight.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Absolutely, plus seeing articles saying it would have won more oscars if it wasn't for ... trans people. 🙄

kallibutterfly.bsky.social•15 hours ago

They f+×÷ing what?!

stormknight.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I guess first thing to understand is that Gascón has said some questionable things over the years, including posting racist tweets a few years ago.

That's not ok in the slightest and I don't condone that.

However, many of those in Hollywood have done the same with few to zero consequences.

stormknight.bsky.social•14 hours ago

An overreaction? Probably.

This seems a reasonable overview.

https://screenrant.com/why-emilia-perez-won-two-oscars-nominations-record-low-factoid/

kallibutterfly.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Interesting read. Feels more like her past came to bite her in the ass with that tweet. But you're right, I don't think the typical cis white dude or even woman might have received the same type of scrutiny. It's all conjecture from my part, but it's clear that more work needs to be done.

stormknight.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I'm all for people being called out on shitty behaviour, but it's very apparent that the penalties for having a shitty take are different when you're from a marginalised community.

capitalismhurtsall.bsky.social•14 hours ago

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capitalismhurtsall.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Fuck Marco rubio and the democrats who support him. Erasure ethnic cleansing and genocide. Project 2025 in action.

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fordavi.bsky.social•16 hours ago

With a few exceptions, like Zoe Saldana, Hollywood is shit scared of Trump and his monied backers.

bratapfel.bsky.social•18 hours ago

But the composer mentioning how good Spanish is for pop music and then not taking any of the translators up there who actually shaped the lyrics and singing the films title for way too long. Confirming all the arrogant impressions everyone already had.