Programme

How I Felt When I Saw That Girl

Some love stories are not simple, and Sweety’s is one such story. She has to contend with her over-enthusiastic family that wants her to get married and a...

The Shiny Shrimps

The festival opens with The Shiny Shrimps, (‘Les Crevettes Pailletées’), the uproarious story of a gay water polo team and its homophobic coach. World Swimming...

The Daughters of Fire

Official Selection - Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, San Sebastian...

My Big Gay Italian Wedding

Official Selection - Winner of the Best Foreign Feature Award, Outflix Film Festival 2018 Joy! Young Antonio is coming home, and he’s bringing along his...

Song Lang

Official Selection - Winner of Audience Award, Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival 2019, Tokyo International Film Festival Song Lang...

Between The Seasons

Official Selection – Busan International Film Festival Hae-soo is a woman with a past, moving to a new city for a fresh start. She becomes the owner of a...

Pain And Glory

Official Selection - Winner at Cannes Film Festival 2019: Best Actor (Banderas), Best Composer (Alberto Iglesias); Palme d’Or and Queer Palm Nominee (Pedro...

Yang and Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

Official Selection – Venice International Film Festival In this fascinating documentary, our very first Prism Award recipient, filmmaker Stanley Kwan, gives...

Butterfly

Official Selection - Winner of Best New Artist Hong Kong Film Award Tian Yuan Opening Film at the Venice Film Festival Critics’ Week, Nominated for Taiwan...

A Woman is A Woman

Official Selection – Hong Kong Independent Film Festival Two trans women, one at puberty and the other middle-aged, both crave integration and acceptance...

Billie & Emma

Official Selection - Outfest 2019, Frameline ‘43, Osaka Asian Film Festival, Roze Filmdagen, Inside Out 2019, Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival 2019...

Queer Japan

Official Selection – OUTFEST Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival 2019 Have you ever seen a fantastically adorned Japanese person slipping into a small alleyway...

A Dog Barking At The Moon

Official Selection – Winner of 2019 Berlin International Film Festival Teddy Jury Award Winner of 2019 Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival Best Narrative...

Memories Of My Body

Official Selection – Venice International Film Festival Full of striking poetic imagery the film is divided into four episodes. It revolves around Juno the...

Athlete

Official Selection – Tokyo International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Kohei is a handsome and masculine former athlete, with a regular family life. He is...

Demons

Official Selection – Berlin International Film Festival If you’re looking for something different and surreal at this year’s festival, try this dark,...

Papi Chulo

fficial Selection - Winner of the Feature Film Award, Newport Beach Film Festival 2019, Toronto International Film Festival 2018 Ever been so emotionally...

Tell It To The Bees

Official Selection: Toronto International Film Festival 2018, BFI Flare 2019 Single mother Lydia (Holliday Grainger) meets small-town doctor Jean Markham (...

From Zero To I Love You

Official Selection – OUTFEST Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival 2019 Another married man? Peter finds himself involved in yet another passionate affair, this...

For They Know Not What They Do

Official Selection - 2019 Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival, 2019 OUTFEST Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival In...

Monument of Pride

Official Selection - San Antonio QFest, Korea Queer Film Festival, Socially Relevant Film Festival NY On the Keizersgracht canal in central Amsterdam lies...

Steam Room Stories: The Movie

The feature-length adaption of the notorious LGBTQ web series—in fact, the most addictive and longest-running one in history with over 210 episodes and 100,000...

End Of The Century

Official Selection - Winner of Outstanding Performance in an International Narrative, 2019 OUTFEST Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival / Winner of the Best First...

LABEL ME

Official Selection: OUTFEST Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival 2019, Winner of the Best Medium Length Film Award, Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis 2019 “I fuck you...

The Blonde One

Official Selection - Winner of the Best LGBTQ Film Award, Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival 2019 Every morning, Gabriel watches as another gorgeous...

Being Impossible

Official Selection – SXSW 2019, Taipei Film Festival 2019, Boston Latino International Film Festival Ariel is a young pious dressmaker whose first intimate...

Consequences

Official Selection - First Slovenian film at Toronto International Film Festival How do you cope with a secret that conflicts with everything you live by?...

Mom + Mom

Official Selection - International Rome Film Festival 2018, Guadalajara International Film Festival 2019 Set in Italy, this is a love story of two women,...

Giant Little One

Official Selection - Toronto International Film Festival 2018; Winner of the Golden Slipper Award, Zlin Film Festival 2019. “I suggest you just pay...

Before We Grow Old

Official Selection - Berlin International Film Festival 2019, Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival 2019 One summer in Berlin, two...

Open Call Shorts

For our 30th Anniversary, we decided to celebrate in a way we have never done before. Traditionally, our films are by-invitation-only, and our programmers...

Asia Pacific Queer Film Festival Alliance Shorts

1. Gentleman Spa Director: Jhi-han Yu Taiwan / 2019 / 18 mins / Drama In Mandarin with English subtitles Hao, a chubby gay man, works as a janitor at a...

Let's Talk About SeXXX Shorts

1. Because You’re Mine Director: Jean-Baptiste Huong France / 2018 / 12 mins / Drama In French with English subtitles A young man flees the city and...

International Boy Shorts

1. Stigma Director: David Velduque Spain / 2018 / 14 mins / Drama In Spanish with English Subtitles It’s Friday night the bell rings and Alex opens the...

International Girl Shorts

1. Confessional Director: Louise Marie Cooke UK / 2019 / 4 mins / Drama / World Premiere In English A teenage Catholic girl has been dreaming of ‘...

Queer Shorts

1. Justice for Maya Director: Jamie Chi The Philippines Hong Kong / 2019 / 3 mins / Experimental / Asian Premiere No dialogue Maya used to be the...