BENDER DEFENDERS short film, LGBTQ+ Festival reactions
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BENDER DEFENDERS, 25min., UK
Directed by Ira Putilova
Four members of a queer martial art club “Bender Defenders” in East London get together to celebrate trans people in sports through conversations about the necessity of anger, the pleasure of pain and the inevitability of friendship and joy as main tools of resistance.
https://www.badtablemanners.co.uk/bender-defenders
https://www.instagram.com/bender.defenders.film/
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