Brighton International Trans Film Festival

Submit your short films exploring a variety of trans lives and experiences worldwide for the BITFF on Friday 18th July 2025.

We are looking for short films (under 25 minutes) that represent trans experiences. This can be either fact or fiction.

We're back at the incredible Duke of York Cinema to see trans people represented on screen and behind the camera.

Our requirement for entry: Films made by trans film makers or a crew with a significant amount of trans people involved, or where a trans person played a key role in the creation of the film.

We are particularly encouraging fictional film submissions and films by and/or featuring trans people of colour, non-western trans people, trans people with disabilities, bi+ trans people, older trans people, and non binary people.

If you cannot afford the fee to enter the festival, please email My Genderation at info@mygenderation.com and you will be sent a fee waiver code.

The fee is to ensure that the committee aren't wading through a lot of material which isn't trans specific or films that are entered simply because it's "free entry." The fee will be used to pay for subtitling of all films to make them more accessible.

All money raised from ticket sales will go back into supporting trans lives.

Over the years, we have been kindly supported by Foundation by Facial Team, My Genderation, Not A Phase, and Trans on Screen.