Robbers, The (Die Räuberinnen)

[Screens online Sept. 22 at 12:45 p.m. -- Sept. 25 at 12:45 p.m. at the 36th Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) that runs Sept. 11-22; for more information, log on to https://outonscreen.com) vqff.] Isa Schieche's engaging, wacky, insightful, humorous, dark, 16-minute Austrian film in which three transgendered women (Isa Schieche, Kristin Lerch, and Thea Ehre) gather in the countryside to practice planning a robbery of an older gentleman (Daniel Wintersteiger) and then decide to disguise themselves and their voices as men while an elderly man (Florian Wild) ironically stops by the country home to ensure that they are safe after hearing bullets being fired.
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