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Melbourne Queer Film Festival
Thursday, 13 November 2025 until Sunday, 23 November 2025
The Melbourne Queer Film Festival is the oldest, largest and most successful queer film festival in Australia. Our main festival screens over 100 sessions of LGBTQIA+ films over 11 days running through November.
The 2025 Melbourne Queer Film Festival will run from 13 Nov to 23 Nov.
MQFF supports local and international filmmaking talent through our various jury and audience choice awards. In total, MQFF offers more than AUD $15,000 in prize money. This includes the AUD $5,000 City of Melbourne Award for Best Australian Short, which automatically qualifies the recipient for our nomination in the Iris Prize - the largest prize for a LGBTQIA+ short film in the world.
2025 films...
OPENING NIGHT EXTRAVAGANZA: Queens of the Dead
DIRECTOR: TINA ROMERO | USA | 2025
DIRECTOR: SAHAND KABIRI | IRAN | 2025
CLOSING NIGHT GALA: Plainclothes
VICTORIAN PREMIERE | CARMEN EMMI
SPECIAL EVENT: Jimpa Premiere with Keynote
DIRECTOR: SOPHIE HYDE | AUSTRALIA | 2025
SPECIAL EVENT: Indigiqueer Voices
DIRECTOR: VARIOUS | CANADA, AUSTRALIA, AOTEAROA, NEW ZEALAND
SPECIAL EVENT: Ramon Te Wake Collection
DIRECTOR: RAMON TE WAKE | AOTEAROA, NEW ZEALAND | 2024,2025
Ramon’s powerful new documentary Trans and Pregnant, her international festival-favourite short film Wait, Wait, Now, and the groundbreaking TV series The Boy, the Queen and Everything In-between – Episode 5.
SPECIAL EVENT: Australian Shorts & Awards
DIRECTOR: VARIOUS | AUSTRALIA | 20,242,025
I'm The Most Racist Person I Know
DIRECTOR: LUCAS SANTA ANA | ARGENTINA, UK, GERMANY | 2025
DIRECTOR: LILLY HU | USA, CHINA | 2025
DIRECTOR: KUO-SIN ONG | SINGAPORE | 2025
DIRECTOR: LIAM CALVERT | UK | 2025
DIRECTOR: CAROLINE FOURNIER | FRANCE | 2025
DIRECTOR: VARIOUS | UK, AUSTRALIA, PORTUGAL | 2024,2025
DIRECTOR: STERGIOS DINOPOULOS, KRYSIANNA B. PAPADAKIS | GREECE | 2025
Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day
DIRECTOR: IVONA JUKA | CROATIA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA ,POLAND, CANADA, CYPRUS | 2024
DIRECTOR: VARIOUS | AOTEAROA, NEW ZEALAND ,MOROCCO, PHILIPPINES, BANGLADESH, CANADA, UK, TURKEY
DIRECTOR: VARIOUS | AUSTRALIA, UK, SOUTH AFRICA
Rainbow Girls: 10 Years of Protection and Prejudice
DIRECTOR: ROHAN PARASHURAM KANAWADE | INDIA, UK, CANADA | 2025
DIRECTOR: JANIS PUGH | UK | 2023
DIRECTOR: LLOYD EYRE-MORGAN, NEIL ELY | UNITED KINGDOM | 2025
DIRECTOR: JOY GHARORO-AKPOJOTOR | UNITED KINGDOM | 2025
DIRECTOR: SHATARA MICHELLE FORD | USA, TAIWAN, UK | 2024
DIRECTOR: SIMON BOUISSON | FRANCE | 2024
DIRECTOR: ILRHAN KIM | SOUTH KOREA | 2024
DIRECTOR: KUKLA | SLOVENIA, NORTH MACEDONIA | 2025
DIRECTOR: ANNAPURNA SRIRAM | USA | 2025
A Bird Hit My Window and Now I'm a Lesbian
How to Find a Career That Loves You Back
Where are you from? A film by Naavikaran
DIRECTOR: VARIOUS | AUSTRALIA, GREECE, USA, AOTEAROA, NEW ZEALAND, UK
I'm The Most Racist Person I Know
DIRECTOR: VARIOUS | AUSTRALIA, UK, USA, GERMANY, AOTEAROA, NEW ZEALAND
DIRECTOR: EVI KALOGIROPOULOU | GREECE | 2025
DIRECTOR: SAM FEDER | USA | 2025
DIRECTOR: REBECCA LENKIEWICZ | UK | 2025
If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart into Your Mouth and Smile
DIRECTOR: MARIE LUISE LEHNER | AUSTRIA | 2025
DIRECTOR: LUDVIG C. POULSEN | DENMARK | 2025
DIRECTOR: JACLYN BETHANY | USA | 2025
DIRECTOR: JEFFREY MCHALE | USA | 2025
DIRECTOR: SERGIO DE LEóN | URUGUAY,ARGENTINA | 2025
DIRECTOR: FERMIN DE LA SERNA | ARGENTINA | 2025
DIRECTOR: KOERT DAVIDSE | NETHERLANDS | 2025
DIRECTOR: DEBORAH S. ESQUENAZI | USA | 2023
DIRECTOR: KANI LAPUERTA | MEXICO, GERMANY | 2025
DIRECTOR: VARIOUS | AUSTRALIA,UK,USA,BRAZIL,"AOTEAROA, NEW ZEALAND",CANADA
DIRECTOR: ELENA OXMAN | USA | 2025
DIRECTOR: MARCO BERGER | ARGENTINA | 2025
DIRECTOR: ESTEBAN ARANGO | USA | 2024
DIRECTOR: DEEPAK RAUNIYAR | NEPAL,USA,NORWAY | 2024
DIRECTOR: YIHWEN CHEN | MALAYSIA / INDONESIA | 2025
DIRECTOR: LUCAS VAN DER RHEE, CHRIS WESTENDORP | NETHERLANDS | 2024
DIRECTOR: J STEVENS | CANADA | 2024
DIRECTOR: SORAYA SIMI | UNITED STATES | 2025
DIRECTOR: ANDRé ANTôNIO | BRAZIL | 2024
DIRECTOR: ČEJEN ČERNIć ČANAK | CROATIA, LITHUANIA, SLOVENIA | 2025
DIRECTOR: MATHIAS BROE | DENMARK
DIRECTOR: SIOBHAN MCCARTHY | USA | 2025
DIRECTOR: LEE GALEA | AUSTRALIA | 2025
Some Nights I Feel Like Walking
DIRECTOR: PETERSEN VARGAS | PHILIPPINES, SINGAPORE, ITALY | 2024
DIRECTOR: DIVINE SUNG | KOREA,REPUBLIC OF | 2024
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Valley of the Dolls!
Buena vida y poca vergüenza: Live large no shame
DIRECTOR: HAFSIA HERZI | FRANCE | 2025
The Nature of Invisible Things
DIRECTOR: RAFAELA CAMELO | BRAZIL, CHILE | 2025
DIRECTOR: ALICE MAIO MACKAY | AUSTRALIA | 2025
DIRECTOR: JAVIER VAN DE COUTER | ARGENTINA,MEXICO | 2024
DIRECTOR: PAULA TOMáS MARQUES | 2025
DIRECTOR: AMY TREFRY | CANADA | 2025
Who Wants to Marry an Astronaut?
DIRECTOR: DAVID MATAMOROS | 2024
DIRECTOR: VARIOUS | AUSTRALIA, UK, TAIWAN, CANADA, POLAND | 2024,2025