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Trans Memoria (2015 -2024)
Genre | Creative documentary
72 min
Director | Victoria Verseau
Production Company | HER Film and Les Films du Bilboquet
Status | World Premiere in The Proxima Competition at The Karlovy Vary International Filmfestival 2024.
kviff.com/en/programme/film/69/42561-trans-memoria

The Hollywood Reporter
“ ‘Trans Memoria’ Director Victoria Verseau on How the Film “Saved Me” and Everyone Is in “Transition”
The Swedish artist also discusses trans stories "made by people without that experience," the importance 
of identity, and why the movie at times feels like a ghost story.” - Georg Szalai

hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/trans-memoria-victoria-verseau-interview-kviff-trans-women-123592679

CINEUROPA
“With a radically open and personal project like this one, Verseau already stands out as a director to watch 
while her aesthetic and ethical commitment to cinema has led to Trans Memoria having its world premiere in 
Karlovy Vary’s Proxima Competition.” - Savina Petkova

cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/464335

BFI FLARE
This contemplative and ethereal diary documentary centres a candid account of Verseau’s fears leading up 
to vaginoplasty in 2012. Grappling with the transience of life, she probes the peculiar mundanity of 
airports, hotels and hospitals. Attempting to reconstruct moments with Meril, their paths having crossed 
during recovery, Verseau deftly questions the selfishness of grief and the meaning of life. 
The result is hauntingly beautiful.


SYNOPSIS
In a silent hotel in a remote Thai city, eight years have passed since Victoria and Meril met for the first time. 
Then they were about to undergo their gender confirmation surgeries and life was just about to begin. 
Now Meril is gone. Together with Athena och Aamina, on their own journeys of transition,Victoria returns to 
listen to the ghosts of the past, the laughs of the present and the whispers of the future.

Supported by

The Swedish Filminstitute
EUR Images
Cinema Du Monde
STHLM Debut Talent Program
ANNA-Award, WIFT Woman In Film and Television, UN Women Sweden
Eurodoc
Mediterranian Film Institute
Cannes Docs

“Honest and heartfelt, and never afraid to push boundaries, Trans Memoria is an exceptionally daring and insightful film and one of the year’s great discoveries.”
 - ICS / International Cinephile Society.

2025
Gothenburg International Film Festival, Sweden, Competition.
Winner of The Dragon Award for Best Nordic Documentary 2025.
SXSW South by Southwest, Austin Texas, US.
schedule.sxsw.com/2025/films/2206829
Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers, France, Competition.
Festival de cinéma Travelling Rennes, France.
Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2025, Greece.
Tempo Documentary Film Festival, Sweden, Competition.
CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Film Festival, Denmark.
BFI: Flare LGBTQI+ Film Festival, London, UK.
Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2025, Greece.
(Upcoming) Millennium Docs Against Gravity FF , Poland.
(Upcoming) One World Film Festival Romania 18th edition, Romania.

2024
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Proxima Competition, Czech Republic, (World Premiere)
kviff.com/en/programme/film/69/42561-trans-memoria
IDFA International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam, Best of fest, Netherlands.
festival.idfa.nl/film/03eb86d9-51ec-427b-a4a4-277c1eaefcc9/trans-memoria
Kasseler Doc Fest, Germany, Competition.
Winner of ‘The Golden Key’ for best feature documentary.
Aux Écrans du RÉEL Festival de Films Documentaires,Competition.
Winner of The Grand Jury Prize.
Belfort Entrevues Film Festival, Belfort France, Competition.
Winner of the ‘One + One Award’ for best sound design + Special Mention.
Queer Lisboa - International Queer Film Festival, Portugal, Competition.
Special Mention.Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy.
Reykjavík International Film Festival, Iceland.Nordic Film Days Lübeck, Germany, Competition.
Leeds International Filmfestival, UK, Competition.Tromsø International Film Festival, Norway.
Chéries-Chéris Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, France.Cork International Film Festival, Ireland.
The 58th Hof International Film Festival, Germany, Competition

2023
Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Docs / Marche du Film, France.
(previous title Meril) - work in progress / feature film.
Winner of ‘The Hiventy Postproduction Prize.