Name: NIÑXS (Edinburgh)
Start: 2025-09-21T05:45:00+01:00
Location: Filmhouse

$NI\u00d1XS (Edinburgh)$

In the rural small town of Tepoztlán, Mexico, fifteen-year-old Karla gets to tell her own coming-of-age story as she navigates the joys and complexities of trans adolescence. Irresistibly warm and funny, NIÑXS bursts the seams of documentary convention by dissolving the distance between filmmaker and subject. Director Kani Lapuerta and Karla reflect together on their transness as they watch eight years’ worth of footage documenting this formative period of Karla’s life: from trying out for the cheer team, playing with makeup, to being embarrassed by her loving and supportive parents. In an era where trans kids are spoken over and spoken for, NIÑXS sparkles with confidence, wit, and magic: a joyous demand that trans youth get to narrate their own stories. Presented in collaboration with the Scottish Queer International Film Festival.
Grasping with both hands the joy, tenderness and tenacity that jumps through the screen in NIÑXS, stay on after the screening for an artistic celebration of trans life lived to its fullest.
CONTENT NOTES: Discussions of transphobia, gender dysphoria, death and surgery. Contains two brief depictions of fake blood.
ACCESS NOTES: Mix of explanatory dialogue (in Spanish) and visual storytelling. Mainly bright images, with a short sequence of darker images towards the end of the film.
Screening as part of #TOAFF25