A new sci-fi thriller short film, with Matrix co-director Lilly Wachowski serving as executive producer, features an all-transgender-women cast. The 18-minute film, Dolls, marks the directorial debut of trans filmmaker Geena Rocero, and the cast includes Yên Sen, Arewà Basit, Macy Rodman and Vas Eli, as well as the director herself. Described as a trans-coded take on 70s cult classic The Stepford Wives, the new film follows Yan, a private investigator who infiltrates a suspicious dating workshop for transgender women after being hired to find a missing girl. Gene, the power-hungry head of the workshop, is rumoured to be running a cult. However, she claims she’s only helping individuals process relationship problems. But altogether-darker forces appear to be at work. “Dolls is my attempt to birth the internal chatter that ruminates in my head,” Rocero told Them. “All those years admiring directors like Claire Denis, Lucrecia Martel and Park Chan-wook, I told myself to give it a shot...