TITE Film Festival: Feel Bad ShortsCLUB 18+107 min
Synopsis
When the right wing labels trans people as ‘nihilistic violent extremists’, how do we make art expressing our most difficult thoughts? Darkly funny, utterly weird and unflinchingly honest, these films embrace themes of envy, dysphoria and death in a uniquely cathartic block of trans filmmaking at its rawest.
CHASER (2026, UK, 10’)
Dir. / Writ. Jesse Williams
A trans woman on a night out crosses paths with a charming stranger, but he may not have her best interest at heart.
The Diary of Valeria (2025, USA, 7’)
Dir. / Writ. Athena Jey
Adapting the diary of a fictional trans woman, this experimental short navigates Valeria’s personal and existential anxieties about her body.
Sydney & Kim (2024, USA, 20’)
Dir. / Writ. Hazel Katz
While Sydney is recovering from a major surgery, her best friend Kim cares for her at a motel. As Kim’s flirtation with the motel manager escalates, Sydney’s resentment boils over.
In the Light of a Miracle (2025, USA, 14’)
Dir. / Writ. OJ Parker
Andre, a pretty boy with dreams of sainthood, is swept into a killing spree with Clint, a hot older voyeur, all while trying to cross the Texas border to evacuate from a hurricane.
I CAN BE KILLED (2025, USA, 17’)
Dir. / Writ. Horatio Allen
Not wanting to die in a body that repulses him, a trans college student resorts to the most extreme measures possible.
TransVengeance (2025, Canada, 5’)
Dir. / Writ. Kaye Adelaide
A trans woman dies on the operating table–but death is no match for a determined transsexual.
Foreign Bodies (2025, UK, 4’)
Dir. / Writ. Lysander Wong
A simple itch descends into an outbreak with many legs. Certain things will always find their way to the surface.
PHOBOSPLUNKER(2026, Ireland, 4’)
Dir. / Writ. Bee Mulvihill
A hungry inventor must traverse the inside of her own mind in order to track down the source of sudden, wormy hallucinations.
Tastes Like Pork (2023, USA, 11’)
Dir. Dante Dammit
Writ. Aurora Lowther, Mary McCarthy
An eager trans woman serves up her genitalia to a cannibalistic cis woman
Total runtime: 92’