QUEER SHORTS WATCH / NOV-DEC 2025

QUEER SHORTS WATCH @GlobalQueerCinema

NOVEMBER 8 - DECEMBER 6, 2025

QUEER SHORTS WATCH is a FREE VIRTUAL short film showcase amplifying the visibility of genre- and geography-diverse queer cinema. The next QUEER SHORTS WATCH runs on Saturdays, November 8 -December 6 with  five spotlighted films/ filmmakers.  

STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES!

Some of the films are going to be available for a limited time only. Follow us on social media to get notified about new releases every Saturday.

QUEER SHORTS WATCH was launched in 2024 with Iris Prize winning short BLOOD LIKE WATER (2023), directed by Dima Hamdan.  

@GlobalQueerCinema would like to THANK all the filmmakers and collaborating partners who participate in QUEER SHORTS WATCH.

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FEATURED FILMMAKER: 

PRISCILLIA KOUNKOU HOVEYDA

Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda is a Congolese Iranian, South Africa and Sierra Leone-based filmmaker; founder and creative director at the Collective for Black Iranians and co-founder and advisory board member of House of Salone, a production and creative agency that advises on critically conscious storytelling. Priscillia’s storytelling is grounded in ancestral memory, intersectionality and Blackness to bear witness to Black life in its varied diasporic iterations. Priscillia’s first film, Where My Memory Began (2024) is a lyrical short that explores the concept of memory while her latest short We Will Be Who We Are (2025) is a visually captivating ode to queer experiences. 

MORE HERE

WATCH WE WILL BE WHO WE ARE HERE 

ON 8-9 NOVEMBER, 2025 

by courtesy of the filmmaker

STAY TUNED for updates and link.

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 Image © Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda

QUEER SHORTS WATCH

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2025

WE WILL BE WHO WE ARE (2025)

dir. Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda | Sierra Leone 

A poetic, visually captivating experimental short about two friends who decide to marry each other in an attempt to escape society's pressures to conform.  "This film explores love; what happens when we give up on who we are, 

and why we should continuously become who we should always have been."

MORE HERE

WATCH IT HERE on 8-9 NOVEMBER, 2025 

by courtesy of the filmmaker

STAY TUNED for updates and link.

QUEER SHORTS WATCH is a FREE curated virtual short film showcase amplifying the visibility of genre- and geography-diverse queer cinema. 

🫶🌍🏳️‍🌈🎥