Globalqueercinema

CONSTELLATIONS OF QUEER MEMORY

40 Years of the TEDDY in the Short Film Form

575 CASTRO ST. (2008) USA dir. Jenni Olson 

Shot on the set of Gus Van Sant’s film Milk (2008), this visual poem for a historic record features Harvey Milk’s “in case”recording on November 18, 1977 (to be played, ‘in the event of my death by assassination’), after his election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which made him one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States. WATCH HERE

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Image ©  575 CASTRO ST. dir. Jenni Olson 

5 GLOBAL QUEER CINEMA GEMS AT SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

22 JAN- 1 FEB 2026 ｜PARK CITY & SALT LAKE CITY UTAH, USA

JARIPEO (2026) Mexico, USA, France

dir. Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig

A vibrant documentary about “jaripeos” or rural rodeos - a world of machos, performative masculinity, and queer desire in Michoacán, Mexico. NEXT

SACCHARINE (2025) Australia

dir. Natalie Erika James 

Body horror about a young woman who, after experimenting with a weight-loss craze involving eating human ashes, ends up being terrorized by the ghost of the person she's eating. Midnight

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5 GLOBAL QUEER CINEMA GEMS AT QUEER FILM FESTIVAL KATHMANDU

15-24 JANUARY｜KATHMANDU, NEPAL

QUEER AS PUNK (2025) Malaysia, Indonesia

dir. Yihwen Chen

A punky documentary about Shh..Diam!, an openly queer punk band in Malaysia who use their music to fight for LGBTQ+ rights in a conservative Muslim society. Documentary feature

SILENT FLOW (2024) Nepal｜dir. Pushpa Joshi 

A poignant documentary about two trans men navigating the emotional and physical realities of menstruation across gender norms and identities. Documentary feature

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Image © QUEER AS PUNK dir. Yihwen Chen

IN THE MOOD FOR QUEER LOVE

curated by @globalqueercinema

Check out our curated selection of queer love stories from around the world, including many gems available to watch online for free. Look for the WATCH HERE links. 

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Check out our genre- and geography-diverse curated film lists on Letterboxd. 

QUEER ANIMATION

UNDERSEEN QUEER CINEMA

INDIGIQUEER CINEMA

SWANA REGION QUEER CINEMA

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QUEER METROPOLIS 

curated by @globalqueercinema

Beirut, Lahore, Montréal, Istanbul, Chengdu, Buenos Aires, Lagos, New York, Nairobi, Mumbai, Moscow, Paris, Santiago, Mexico City, Tokyo, Hong Kong. Which METROPOLIS tells your favorite queer story? Check out our genre- and geography-diverse curated lists on LETTERBOXD.

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10 GLOBAL QUEER CINEMA GEMS WE LOVED IN  2025

Each year we are excited to share a genre- and geography-diverse selection of queer feature films, shorts, documentaries, and animated queer stories we absolutely loved from around the world. All films are 2025 international  theatrical & festival releases. Watch, share, add your favorites!

BEL AMI (2024) dir. Geng Jun

CACTUS PEARS (2025) dir. Rohan Kanawade 

BOUCHRA (2025) dir. Orian Barki, Meriem Bennani

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I ONLY REST IN THE STORM (2025) 

Portugal, France, Brazil, Romania 

dir. Pedro Pinho

Expat life and neo-colonial dynamics at play as a Portuguese environmental engineer travels from Lisbon to Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, to scout for his company's road construction plans and gets tangled up in a complicated relationship with two locals. A patient (it runs 211 minutes) and complex exploration of postcolonial power dynamics wrapped in a culturally and sexually fluid narrative. 

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WE LOVED IN  2025

A genre- and geography-diverse selection of queer feature films, shorts, documentaries, and animated queer stories we absolutely loved from around the world (2025 international theatrical & festival releases).

DANDELION (2025) dir. Fiona Obertinca

ONE DAY THIS KID (2024) dir. Alexander Farah

LLOYD WONG, UNFINISHED (2025) dir. Lesley Loksi Chan

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