Genderation (KINO)
忽男忽女・後篇 (KINO)
Revisiting Gendernauts
- Released
- 22 Sep 2026
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Certificate
- Category III
- Original title
- Genderation
- Language
- de
The verdict
There are not yet enough audience votes to give this a reliable score. It is not currently playing in Hong Kong cinemas. Category III · 88 minutes.
What it is about
San Francisco, at the turn of the millennium. Monika Treut turns her camera on a community of artists, scholars, and performers who call themselves “Gendernauts”: they llive beyond the boundaries of conventional gender, blending technology, biochemistry, and sheer boldness to reshape their identities on their own terms. Made at a time when transgender lives were rarely portrayed with dignity or nuance, Gendernauts remains a landmark of queer cinema, celebrating gender not as a fixed destination but as an open, joyful frontier. Winner of the Teddy Award at the Berlinale.
What to expect
Monika Treut filmed this in San Francisco around the millennium, following a loose collective who called themselves Gendernauts — artists, academics, performers — all reshaping their bodies and identities with hormones, surgery, and sheer nerve. It is a portrait of a specific moment, before the language around trans lives hardened into what it is now, and the movie carries that openness in its rhythm: unhurried, curious, more interested in hanging out than making a case. The Teddy Award it won at the Berlinale is noted, but the real draw is the footage itself, which has aged into a time capsule. The Hong Kong release is a reissue, playing in German with Chinese subtitles, rated Category III (18+ only). At 88 minutes, it is compact enough to work as an evening, but do not expect a wide run — check listings carefully.
Cast
- Annie Sprinkle Self
- Beth Stephens Self
- Stafford Self
- Sandy Stone Self
- Susan Stryker Self
- Max Wolf Valerio Self
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Monika Treut
Self
Crew
- Director Monika Treut
- Music Mona Mur
Common questions
- How long is the movie?
- 88 minutes.
- What is the age restriction?
- Category III — only viewers 18 and above are admitted.
- What language is it in, and are there subtitles?
- German dialogue with Chinese subtitles.
- Is this a new movie?
- No, it was shot around the turn of the millennium. This Hong Kong release is a reissue.