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  • BIGff: Bari International Gender Film Festival
  • Bradford Queer Film Festival
  • Chéries-Chéris
  • Feast Festival
  • Filmový Festival Inakosti - Slovak Queer Film Festival
  • Florence Queer Festival
  • Homotopia
  • image+nation
  • Kansai Queer Film Festival
  • LesGaiCineMad
  • Melbourne Queer Film Festival
  • Mezipatra Queer Filmový Festival
  • MIX NYC
  • MixBrasil Sexual Diversity Film Festival
  • Outburst Queer Arts Festival
  • Pink Panorama LesBiSchwules Festival Luzern
  • Queer Film Festival: Playa del Carmen
  • San Francisco Transgender Film Festival
  • ZE Festival
MixBrasil Sexual Diversity Film Festival

MixBrasil Sexual Diversity Film Festival

Wednesday, 12 November 2025 until Sunday, 23 November 2025

The Mix Brasil Festival of Diversity Culture is an LGBTQIA+ cultural event held every year since 1993, focusing on works related to sexuality and gender identity in various forms of expression. The festival takes place in November in prestigious cinemas in São Paulo and takes full advantage of the city's diversity.

A national and international reference, the MixBrasil Festival of Diversity Culture is one of the most significant LGBTQIA+ cultural events in the world.

Since its first edition, it has brought the world avant-garde of artistic representations in films, promoting social inclusion and opening space for the expression of different lifestyles, increasing awareness of LGBTQIA+ issues.

Among films, performances, literature, transmedia expressions, workshops, musical shows and parties, MixBrasil brings together thousands of people around a culture of understanding and respect. Whether in physical spaces or digital platforms.

MixBrasil is looking for narrative, documentary, animation, and experimental films (short and feature-length), both domestic and international.

While a premiere in São Paulo for Brazilian films is not required, it will be a plus during the selection process. International feature films are eligible for the Competition. It must be - at least - São Paulo Premiere.

The event is carried out by the Associação Cultural Mix Brasil, a non-profit organization that seeks to promote the freedom of expression of sexual diversity by looking at new and different ways to achieve it.

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O Festival Mix Brasil de Cultura da Diversidade é um evento cultural LGBTQIA+ realizado todos anos desde 1993, com foco em obras relacionados à sexualidade e identidade de gênero em diversas formas de expressão. O festival acontece em novembro em prestigiados cinemas de São Paulo e aproveita ao máximo a diversidade da cidade.

Referência nacional e internacional, o Festival MixBrasil de Cultura da Diversidade é um dos eventos culturais LGBTQIA+ mais significativos do mundo.

Desde sua primeira edição, trouxe a vanguarda mundial das representações artísticas em filmes, promovendo a inclusão social e abrindo espaço para a expressão de diferentes estilos de vida, ampliando a conscientização sobre as questões LGBTQIA+.

Entre filmes, artes cênicas, literatura, expressões transmídia, oficinas, shows musicais e festas, o MixBrasil reúne milhares de pessoas em torno de uma cultura de compreensão e respeito. Seja em espaços físicos ou plataformas digitais.

MixBrasil busca filmes de ficção, documentários, de animação e experimentais (curtas e longas-metragens), nacionais e internacionais.

Embora não seja necessária estreia em São Paulo para filmes brasileiros, mas premieres terão preferência durante o processo de seleção. Longas-metragens internacionais são elegíveis para a Competição e devem - no mínimo - ser estréia em São Paulo.

O evento é realizado pela Associação Cultural Mix Brasil, organização sem fins lucrativos que busca promover a liberdade de expressão da diversidade sexual por meio de novas e diferentes formas de alcançá-la.

Golden Rabbit Awards
Jury Award / Best Brazilian Feature Film
Jury Award / Best Brazilian Short

Silver Rabbit Awards
Jury Award / Best Director, Brazilian Short Film
Jury Award / Best Screenplay, Brazilian Short Film
Jury Award / Best Performance, Brazilian Short Film
Jury Award / Best Director, Brazilian Feature Film
Jury Award / Best Screenplay, Brazilian Feature Film
Jury Award /Best Performance, Brazilian Feature Film
Audience Award / Best Brazilian Feature Film
Audience Award / Best International Feature Film
Audience Award / Best Brazilian Short Film
Audience Award / Best International Short Film

Special Awards
Suzy Capó Award (Golden Rabbit) for the most innovative and transgressive work (lm/theatre/music/dance);
Gongo's Show Award (Silver Rabbit) hosted by Marisa Orth;
Canal Brasil Award / Best Brazilian Short Film - R$ 15,000.00 (Fifteen thousand reais) as well as being suitable for the large Canal Brazil Award of R $ 50,000.00 (Fifty thousand reais);
Sesc TV Award / Best short film of the competition - R$ 5,000.00 reais and a two-year exhibition contract.

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Prêmios Coelho de Ouro
Prêmio do Júri / Melhor Longa-Metragem Brasileiro
Prêmio do Júri / Melhor Curta Brasileiro

Prêmios Coelho de Prata
Prêmio do Júri / Melhor Diretor, Curta-Metragem Brasileiro
Prêmio do Júri / Melhor Roteiro, Curta-Metragem Brasileiro
Prêmio do Júri / Melhor Performance, Curta-Metragem Brasileiro
Prêmio do Júri / Melhor Diretor, Longa-Metragem Brasileiro
Prêmio do Júri / Melhor Roteiro, Longa-Metragem Brasileiro
Prêmio do Júri/Melhor Performance, Longa-Metragem Brasileiro
Prêmio do Público / Melhor Longa-Metragem Brasileiro
Prêmio do Público / Melhor Longa-Metragem Internacional
Prêmio do Público / Melhor Curta-Metragem Brasileiro
Prêmio do Público / Melhor Curta-Metragem Internacional

Prêmios Especiais
Prêmio Suzy Capó (Coelho de Ouro) para a obra mais inovadora e transgressora (cinema/teatro/música/dança);
Prêmio Show do Gongo (Coelho de Prata) apresentado por Marisa Orth;
Prêmio Canal Brasil / Melhor Curta-Metragem Brasileiro - R$ 15.000,00 (Quinze mil reais) além de ser indicado para o grande Prêmio Canal Brasil de R$ 50.000,00 (Cinquenta mil reais);
Prêmio Sesc TV / Melhor curta-metragem da competição - R$ 5.000,00 reais e contrato de exibição de dois anos.


 

2025 films...

BRAZILIAN COMPETITION • FEATURES

The Brazilian Competition – Features brings together eight films from eight states, forming a sensitive mosaic of contemporary Brazilian LGBT+ cinema. The works explore affection, dissident motherhood, desire, loneliness, and the reinvention of family bonds, spanning different times and territories. From love between men in the Goiás backlands to trans motherhood struggling for dignity; from the experience of obsession and loss in metropolitan cities to the transformative power of the female imagination, the films reveal bodies in transition, conflicting identities, and the persistent search for freedom, care, and belonging in a country still marked by absence and resistance.

Suture

Death and Life Madalena

Streets of Glória

Only Good Things

The Nature of Invisible Things

Apolo

Night Stage

The Witch’s Kiss 


BRAZILIAN COMPETITION • SHORTS

Bringing together 17 short films from all five regions of Brazil, the Brazilian Competition – Shorts presents works that traverse physical and emotional landscapes—from the mountains to the backlands, from the road to the village—revealing bodies in transition, silenced desires, and multiple forms of resistance. Amidst indigenous spirituality, trans motherhood, lesbian love, violence, and liberation, a network of narratives emerges that confronts patriarchy, racism, and heteronormativity. These films expand our perspective on identity, pleasure, and belonging, transforming the act of filmmaking into a political, poetic, and profoundly human act.

Americana

Uniformed

The Handyman

Message from Sergipe

Touching Ugliness

Dead Fish

I’m Here

Fronteriza

The Cowgirl, the Showgirl and the Pig

The Blame Silence

Village

A Bull in High Heels

How A River Is Born

Mommy

Sandra

My Piece of Mandioca

Vulkan 


REFRAME

The Reframe showcase, which this year becomes competitive, is a ritual of rebellion and invention. Films that blur the boundaries between body, myth, and delirium, invoking witches, bastard gods, desiring machines, and decaying memories. Here, cinema doesn’t seek consensus—it wounds, enjoys, re-enchants. Between collapses and cosmic strikes, these images unearth the colonial past and spit the future onto the screen. Each work is an open wound, an offering to disorder, a cry from those who refuse to be domesticated. A cinema made of flesh, chaos, and witchcraft: queer to the core, free to the end.

The Artist is Online

Matamortes

Voz Zov Vzo

Land Grabbing

Iracema

Ecology of the Shipwreck

Gravity

Abjuration 


QUEER.DOC

The Queer.doc program evokes the power of reality when intersected by queer invention. From the stage and backstage scenes of brave drag queens to the cathartic outburst experienced on the sands of Copacabana at a Madonna concert, each documentary in this selection is testimony and performance, ritual and resistance. Between archives, bodies, and desires, cinema emerges as a space of living memory — where politics, art, and affection intertwine. These stories dance between celebration and confrontation, between mourning and brilliance. A mosaic of presences that defies erasure and transforms reality into a radical gesture of existence.

Copacabana, May 4th

One Minute is an Eternity for Those who are Suffering

Leather Graves

Will to Live (mutatis mutandis)

Whipping Hair!

Drags, a Super Film


INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA

The International Panorama features works from 17 countries, including Argentina, South Korea, France, Mexico, and Australia. These narratives range from apps to apocalypses, zombies to gods, starring queer bodies burning with desire, faith, and fury. Highlights include Anna Cazenave Cambet’s “Love Me Tender”, a devastating portrait of motherhood and freedom, and Diego Céspedes’ “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo”, which fuses fairy tales and political oppression, the selection celebrates cinema as a rite of resistance and reinvention of perspective, with films screened and awarded at major festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, and San Sebastián. An invitation to a profound journey through the LGBT+ landscape around the world.

Skiff

Scarlet Blue

Sabbath Queen

Twinless

Love Me Tender

Lesbian Space Princess

Memorabilia

Mi Pecho Está Lleno de Centellas | My Chest is Full of Sparks

A Metros de Distancia | A Few Feet Away

Before / After

Blowie

Manok

El Fin de las Primeras Veces | The Last First Time

Ninxs

La Misteriosa Mirada del Flamenco | The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo

Queens of the Dead 


MIX WORLD POLAND

Polish LGBT+ cinema is breaking new ground, with young filmmakers challenging conventions and telling the truth about love, identity, and exclusion. Their films are winning awards at international festivals, becoming the voice of a generation – bold, honest, and unapologetic. This is cinema that not only entertains and moves, but also provokes reflection, gives visibility, and changes the way we see the world. Fresh, daring, authentic – this is the new wave of Polish queer film! – Wiktor Morka, CEO of LGBT+ Film Festival Poland

To Uczucie | Such Feeling

Elephant | Słoń 


MIXBRASIL SHORTS

A selection of the best of LGBT+ short film production worldwide!

Babilonia | Babylonia

2 of Hearts

Linger

Those Who Move

Jurerê Internacional

Not Enough for the Love Inside

Agapornis

The Deepest is the Skin: LGBT60+

Desert Cruising

Pandora

Nos Fins Joyeuses | Our Joyful Endings

Rezbotanik

Queen

Orgy Every Other Day

Carnival Queen

Cissa’s Time

Du Bist So Wunderbar (Paradise Europe)

Cybersex 19

Arriba Beach

About Us

Raw + Porous

Tigrezz

Ana Sofia

Ecoute Ton Amour Pour Moi | Listen to Your Love for Me

Water Sports

El Mundo es Afuera | The World is Out There

Sofia

Farewell, Saranghae, Farewell

Between Signs and Tides

Pink Isn’t Your Color

Carlinha and André

Dinner for Six

Back of the Portfolio

Short Notice

Picumã

Iloveyou, Iloveyou, Iloveyou (…)

LWC (Lazy White Cows)

Everything You Want

Kabuki

je Stare | My Old Gals

Reszta Naszego Życia | Rest Of Our Life

Nhandê

Afterwards

Ladylike

Can I Ask You a Question?

Glitter

You Are Not Part of The Cake

Burning Inside

Narmook

Nani’s Kitchen

The Fishbowl Girl

Many Happy Returns

Double This, Double That

Tell Her What Happened to Me

No Need to Explain

Gorzko | A Cappella

HEM

His Body

Śmierć Frajera | Sucker’s Death

Rozmowa | The Conversation