TITE Film Festival: Work Shorts (+Q&A)

CLUB 18+131 min

For better or for worse, trans people have to go to work. In this tense dynamic between labour and survival is a whole world of passion, exploitation, camaraderie and complicity, which these short films explore with blunt honesty and wry humour.

Screening followed by a filmmaker Q&A.

Presented in partnership with our friends at Praxis Artist Union.

No Brainer (2025, UK, 9’)

Dir. / Writ. Jordy Kaltz

Two friends hatch a plan to avoid going to work the next day.

4 Better Or 4 Worse (2025, Philippines, 18’)

Dir. / Writ. Ronjay-C Mendiola

When a trans woman is hospitalised in an emergency, her chosen family—Barbara, Tintoy, and Bianca—join a series of beauty pageants to raise money for her survival.

Medusa vs. the Men Who Want (Her) Head (2025, USA, 4’)

Dir. / Writ. Jennifer Marie Cella

A snapshot of Medusa and the strange men she must put up with–this time as she plans a bachelorette party while interviewing a drab party clown.

Booters Butch Bar & Diner (2026, UK, 11’)

Dir. Oran Keaveney

This documentary follows the butches behind Booters, a diner experience giving dyke masculinity a place to shine, strut and squirt whipped cream wherever hungry femmes will have it.

Bianca (2025, Scotland, 8’)

Dir. / Writ. Priscila Fróes

A trans woman blends documentary footage of her past as a sex worker in Porto Alegre and Rio de Janeiro with experimental visuals and sounds, transforming marginalised memories into a powerful act of cinematic reclamation.

Homemade Gatorade (2025, USA, 9’)

Dir. / Writ. Carter Amelia Davis

Having brewed four tubs of homemade Gatorade nobody seems to want, a woman embarks on a late night road trip to deliver the goods to a mysterious online buyer.

Vertical Storage Solutions for the Recently Bereaved (2025, USA, 12’)

Dir. / Writ. Simone Hile Bassett

Strapped for cash from healthcare costs, a trans woman takes a job testing an invasive, empathy-generating brain implant.

How to Find a Career That Loves You Back (2025, USA, 25’)

Dir. Ethernet Wang

Writ. Ethernet Wang & Ember Streshinsky

When two trans women are chosen as company representatives for a career fair, the trip ignites a fragile romance and budding doubts about their work for a defense-technology corporation.

Total runtime: 96 minutes