Still from Heightened Scrutiny (2025), by Sam Feder.
Still from Heightened Scrutiny (2025), by Sam Feder.
Heightened Scrutiny
2:30 pm–4:00 pm
Directed by Sam Feder (USA, 2025, 85min.).
From director Sam Feder and the team who brought you Disclosure (2020) comes this critically timed snapshot of the state of transgender rights and justice in America. ACLU attorney Chase Strangio takes on not only the Supreme Court but also the court of public opinion as news coverage shapes the national conversation on this flashpoint topic for our times. A 2025 Sundance pick.
“As if in stern rebuke to the ‘just asking questions’ crowd, who reduce people’s real lives to intellectual exercises, Heightened Scrutiny interweaves thought and feeling simultaneously.” —Variety
“What Heightened Scrutiny reminded me is that the hope is inside of us, and that only through coalition building and helping others who need it the most will it truly be fulfilled.” —IndieWire
Wheelchair accessible
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