TITE Film Festival

TRANS IMAGE/TRANS EXPERIENCE (TITE) is Ireland’s first festival of trans and non-binary cinema, taking place 25-27 April 2025 at the Light House Cinema! This year's inaugural festival proudly presents 8 feature films, 40 shorts, a workshop, filmmaker Q&As, and more to be announced. From award-winning Sundance darlings to low budget DIY extravaganzas, soft-spoken dramas to hyperpop explosions, dozens of Irish premieres and a special archive screening from 1989; whatever you picture when you think about ‘trans film’, think again.

  • TITE: Ponyboi

    New Jersey. 2003. They’re discussing 9/11 memorials on the radio, Valentine’s Day is coming to a close, and Ponyboi, an intersex sex worker, is lonely in love. His john won’t let him talk during sex. His laundromat job is absolutely…

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    Director: Esteban Arango

    Genre: Drama,Festival

    Release Date: 24-Feb-2025

    Fri 25 Apr
  • TITE: Image Shorts (+Q&A)

    Pushing trans film images beyond simple representation, this programme combines visual splendour with an experimental edge to explore art, performance, transformation, and the dangerous but alluring ways they often bleed together… Features a post-screening Q&A with filmmakers. This screening features…

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    Director: Various Various

    Genre: Festival

    Release Date: 24-Feb-2025

    Sat 26 Apr
  • TITE: Dog Movie & Friends (+Q&A)

    Sharing a space with other people can be as comforting as it is frustrating. But in the thick of the Irish housing crisis, the vast majority of trans people find themselves crammed together with friends and family, for better… or…

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    Director: Various Various

    Genre: Festival

    Release Date: 24-Feb-2025

    Sat 26 Apr
  • TITE: Soft

    Toronto’s queer nightlife is all sweat, clubs and glitter — but Julian, Otis and Tony are stuck on the fringes. Exuberant and rambunctious queer kids, the trio spend their summer break making mayhem together and not talking about the underlying…

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    Director: Joseph Amenta

    Genre: Festival

    Release Date: 24-Feb-2025

    Sat 26 Apr
  • TITE: Intimacy Shorts (+Q&A)

    How close can two people get before disappearing into each other? When does pain turn into pleasure? Is it better to have loved and lost, or should we just give up on dating cishet men? A little bit of heartbreak…

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    Director: Various Various

    Genre: Festival

    Release Date: 24-Feb-2025

    Sat 26 Apr
  • TITE: Spirit Riser

    In the greatest midnight movie of the year, sisters Sydney and Ingrid have their world upended after a malevolent cosmic entity throws them to opposite sides of America — forcing them to run for their lives, discover the supernatural powers…

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    Director: Dylan Mars Greenberg

    Genre: Festival

    Release Date: 24-Feb-2025

    Sat 26 Apr
  • TITE: Experience Shorts (+Q&A)

    With a focus on dramatic storytelling, palpable chemistry, and tangible production, this programme has everything from heart-wrenching dramas to pulse-pounding thrills. Whether by bringing you comfort, making you sweat, or frying your circuits, these short films can’t just be watched…

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    Director: Various Various

    Genre: Festival

    Release Date: 24-Feb-2025

    Sun 27 Apr
  • TITE: Sex Change: Shock! Horror! Probe! (+Q&A)

    Thatcherite Britain, 1989 and transexuals are fighting back. Cabaret star Adele Anderson is facing a transphobic backlash after being cruelly outed by the press. Meanwhile in Manchester, Stephanie Anne Lloyd is a successful trans business woman selling gender affirming products…

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    Director: Kristiene Clark

    Genre: Festival

    Release Date: 24-Feb-2025

    Sun 27 Apr
  • TITE: Tops

    Documentaries about trans subjects have a long and heated history, reaching a boiling point in the era of exploitative talk shows and reality TV. But with nostalgic electro beats and Y2K visuals, TOPS bursts into the trans documentary canon as…

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    Director: Ames Pennington

    Director: Joe Bitelli

    Genre: Festival

    Release Date: 24-Feb-2025

    Sun 27 Apr
  • TITE: Peafowl

    Having cut ties with her family and moved to bustling Seoul, Myung has risen to the top of the city’s dance scene through flawless waacking. Winning her next competition will validate her commitment to her art, her estrangement from her…

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    Director: Byung Sung-Bin

    Genre: Festival

    Release Date: 24-Feb-2025

    Sun 27 Apr
  • TITE: Stress Positions

    In the twilight of his twinkhood, Terry Goon is keeping strict quarantine in his ex-husband’s party house while caring for his bedridden nephew Bahlul, a 19-year-old model from Morocco. Unfortunately for Terry, everyone in his life wants to meet the…

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    Director: Theda Hammel

    Genre: Festival

    Release Date: 24-Feb-2025

    Sun 27 Apr

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