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QUEER SCREEN FILM FEST
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5 GLOBAL QUEER CINEMA GEMS AT QUEER SCREEN FILM FEST
QUEER SCREEN FILM FEST
AUGUST 27-31 SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Founded in 2013, Queer Screen Film Fest is back for its 12th edition, bringing fresh and diverse LGBTQ+ cinema to Sydney from around the world. Next to a rich and diverse lineup of features, documentaries, shorts, animation and more, Queer Screen also provides support to Australian LGBTQ+ filmmakers and storytellers via the Queer Screen Completion Fund. In 2023 Queer Screen became the first Australian and first LGBTQ+ film festival in the world to participate in the Goes to Cannes program at the Marché du Film.
5 GLOBAL QUEER CINEMA GEMS AT QUEER SCREEN FILM FEST
5 GLOBAL QUEER CINEMA GEMS AT QUEER SCREEN FILM FEST
5 GLOBAL QUEER CINEMA GEMS AT QUEER SCREEN FILM FEST
5 GLOBAL QUEER CINEMA GEMS AT
QUEER SCREEN FILM FEST
MANOK (2025) South Korea｜dir. Lee Yu-jin
A brash comedy about a middle-aged lesbian bar owner who, after learning that the Pride afterparty she’s hosted for decades is moving to a rival bar, moves to her hometown and stirs things up. Intergenerational queer friendship and allyship at its best.
DANDELION (2025) USA
dir. Fiona Obertinca
In 1970s Los Angeles, rebellious queer teen Margaret thrown out of yet another foster placement and finds herself in the company of a mysterious social worker. Queer foster parenting for real. Mixed Shorts
QUEER SCREEN FILM FEST
AUGUST 27-31 SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Fest Faves: QUEERPANORAMA (2025)
5 GLOBAL QUEER CINEMA GEMS AT QUEER SCREEN FILM FEST
Fest Faves: QUEERPANORAMA (2025)
QUEERPANORAMA (2025)
USA, Hong Kong dir. Jun Li
A candid and provocative exploration of intimacy and connection, this erotic Hong Kong “urbanscapade” follows a gay man who impersonates men he has had sex with. By assuming the persona of his latest hookup, he poses as a scientist, a teacher, an actor - a fleeting moment of otherness while sharing sensual, sometimes violent intimacies with strangers. Jayden Cheung stuns with a remarkable debut performance as the anonymous young man navigating urban connect, alienation, and hookup culture in stark, poetic black and white (and all the greys in-between).
QUEER FILM FESTIVALS / August
REEL DESIRES FILM FEST
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SF QUEER FILM FESTIVAL
REEL DESIRES FF
CHENNAI INTERNATIONAL QUEER FILM FESTIVAL
AUGUST 8-19
CHENNAI, INDIA
The 13th Reel Desires FF runs August 8-10 at the Goethe-Institut in Chennai. 15 features films, shorts and documentaries from 9 countries were selected via a community-led review process this year. The program also features a panel discussion titled Getting Settled: Queer Perspectives, a Fab Glitter party and much more.
Entry FREE!
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SF QUEER FILM FESTIVAL
QUEER SCREEN FILM FEST
SF QUEER FILM FESTIVAL
SF QUEER FILM FESTIVAL
AUGUST 22-24
SAN FRANCISCO, USA
The 5th Edition of the SF Queer Film Festival celebrates independently produced queer cinema by seasoned and new queer storytellers. A festival “by filmmakers, for filmmakers”, this year’s lineup features, shorts, documentaries, animated and experimental works.
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QUEER SCREEN FILM FEST
QUEER SCREEN FILM FEST
QUEER SCREEN FILM FEST
QUEER SCREEN FILM FEST
AUGUST 27-31
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
The 12th Queer Screen Film Fest (QSFF) brings fresh and diverse LGBTIQ+ cinema from around the world to Sydney. Over five days, the festival presents a curated selection of new queer cinema, including 14 Australian premieres and the return of the popular Mixed Shorts. Among the highlights are award-winners from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, Cannes Critics’ Week and Visions du Réel.
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Watch FREE GQC
Aikāne (2023)
EGÚNGÚN / MASQUERADE (2021)
BURRNESHA (2023)
AIKĀNE (2023)
DIRS. DEAN HAMER, JOE WILSON
ANIMATED BY DANIEL SOUSA
A beautifully animated queer Pacific Islander story from the creators of Kapaemahu about a wounded warrior who falls into the ocean, is rescued by an octopus who transforms into a young man and the two become aikāne - intimate friends and companions of the same sex. Aikāne skillfully weaves queer Pacific Islander stories into the fabric of world cinema.
WATCH HERE
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BURRNESHA (2023)
EGÚNGÚN / MASQUERADE (2021)
BURRNESHA (2023)
BURRNESHA (2023)
DIR. LUKAS TIELKE
In the tightly knit, patriarchal rural villages of northern Albania, some women become burrnesha who take a vow of celibacy to live as men. According to this ancient tribal practice, being a burrnesha allows women to become the head of a family, inherit property, and be part of activities traditionally reserved for men. It also means freedom - freedom from the societal pressures of marriage, sexism and gender based violence.
WATCH HERE
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EGÚNGÚN / MASQUERADE (2021)
EGÚNGÚN / MASQUERADE (2021)
EGÚNGÚN / MASQUERADE (2021)
EGÚNGÚN / MASQUERADE (2021)
DIR. OLIVE NWOSU
A poignant short about a young woman who returns from London to her ancestral village in Nigeria for the funeral of her mother. She finds old dreams and loves, but also traumas and lies in the place where she grew up. Egúngún means masquerade: it is roots and tradition. It is also layering and masquerading - the hiding that societal norms and pressures impose on people’s feelings and lives. Beautifully photographed with subtly intense performances, this soulful short is the physical and emotional journey of two women reconnecting in space and time, past and present and egúngún.
WATCH HERE
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