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GAZE International LGBTQIA Film Festival
Gaze LGBT Film Festival
Tuesday, 28 July 2026 until Monday, 03 August 2026
For over three decades, GAZE has stood as a cultural cornerstone of Ireland’s LGBTQIA community. Founded in 1992, before homosexuality was decriminalised in Ireland, GAZE has grown into an internationally recognised platform that champions bold, unapologetically queer and trans stories, including compelling narratives, insightful documentaries and innovative DIY films.
Each year, over seven days, GAZE screens more than 100 Irish and international films, from DIY gems to cinematic masterpieces, alongside panels, workshops, and networking events that connect filmmakers, audiences, and industry professionals.
At GAZE, we celebrate stories that reflect the full spectrum of LGBTQIA experience: tender, camp, radical, hilarious, heartbreaking, and everything in between. Our audiences are dedicated, engaged and passionate. We sell-out screenings and our filmmakers are amongst an alumni of artists who’ve shaped the queer film landscape in Ireland and internationally.
GAZE 2026 will take place from Tuesday 28th July to Monday 3rd August in the Light House Cinema and the Irish Film Institute, Dublin.
Whether you’re a first-time filmmaker or a seasoned visionary, we want to see your work. If it’s fresh, weird, horny, narratively compelling, with gripping characters, and proudly LGBTQIA, submit it to GAZE and join us in celebrating queer and trans cinema at its most vibrant.
Every year, GAZE honours the filmmakers who inspire our audiences. From boundary-pushing debuts to nuanced cinematic imaginings, our awards celebrate the best of contemporary LGBTQIA storytelling.
Selected films are eligible for the following awards:
- Best Irish Short: recognising excellence in Irish LGBTQIA short filmmaking.
- Best International Short: awarded to an outstanding short from outside Ireland.
- GAZE Jury Award for Best Feature: for a standout film, chosen by the GAZE Jury.
- Audience Award for Best Feature: voted for by our devoted festival audiences.
While our awards carry no monetary value, our ambition is to platform the award winners by lifting up their achievements.
2026 Programme...
Bitter Christmas | Opening Film
We open GAZE this year with the dulcet melodrama and eye-wateringly beautiful designs of Almodóvar. In the director’s latest auto-fiction feature, we watch two parallel worlds unfold. Director Elsa, struggling with the recent death of her mother, runs from work and her adoring firefighting lover, Bonifacio, to Lanzarote with her friend Patricia. Dancing alongside Elsa’s ethereal melancholy is the world of director Raúl, typing Elsa’s life into existence for us. Elsa’s perspective is infused with Raúl himself, her relationships mirroring his own, including his producer Mónica and boyfriend Santi.
As the complications of Mónica’s life start to appear in Elsa’s world, she becomes furious at Raúl for fictionalising a grief so close to home. These sensitively interwoven stories ask big questions around creative license, exploring how art and life are often painfully intertwined. The intricate web that Bitter Christmas proposes pays in dividends, with a deeply moving ending that offers contemplation about appreciating the ones we love and how we can take them for granted. With a typically brilliant Almodóvar ensemble and heightened moments of surreality, that will make you laugh and make you cry.
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Barbara Forever
Long-standing audiences of the festival will fondly remember seasons and screenings of Hammer’s lauded work, including Dyketactics and Nitrate Kisses. Whether you're new or familiar with Hammer, this documentary captures the lesbian film pioneer’s life entirely through her own archival goldmine of queer cinema history. Avante-Garde and relentlessly rejected by a patriarchally guarded artistic scene being slowly revolutionised by movements of the 70s and 80s, Hammer’s sheer perseverance blasted through a glass ceiling of cultural gatekeepers, immortalising herself and the lovers she so tenderly and prolifically captured throughout her work.
Burcu's Angels Pre-feature short
For over 30 years, Burcu’s Angels was more than a store—it was a radical space of care. As the shop nears closure, this documentary blends archival fragments, poetic reflection, and community memory to honour a Turkish queer elder’s defiant presence—and the disappearing spaces that held generations of queer lives.
Özgün Gündüz / Canada / 2025 / 20m | Writer: Özgün Gündüz | Producer: Özgün Gündüz
Writers: Brydie O'Connor
Producers: Elijah Stevens, Brydie O'Connor, Claire Edelman
Under My Skin (Shorts Block)
A new block of fantasy-horror shorts creeps its way into the GAZE programme! Reflecting a queer community under increasing pressure to quieten and conform, these are eight unnerving pictures of people ill at ease in the world, doing whatever it takes to find their place. Some of them might get what they want in the end; and some might not be so lucky.
She Raised Me | When a struggling writer discovers he’s dating the son of his favorite actress, he’ll do anything to make a meaningful connection.
Ben Lewis / Canada, USA / 13m | Writer: Ben Lewis | Producer: Katie White, Danielle Wright, Mitchka Saberi
CHARITY! | A closeted Y2K pop princess faces a surreal assault on the senses, wrestling with the cost of fame and a diabolical record label who'll stop at NOTHING to make her a star.
Stephen T Lally / Ireland / 15m | Writer: Stephen T Lally | Producer: Cian O’Leary
daylight | A young girl discovers a new family after being transformed into a vampire.
Andrea A. Walter / USA / 15m | Writer: Andrea A. Walter | Producer: May May Luong
Would You Rather | After recovering from a mental breakdown, a young woman shows up uninvited to a friend’s gathering, where a party game threatens to push her over the edge.
Sophie O’Donovan / Ireland / 11m | Writer: Sophie O’Donovan | Producer: Aoibhín Murphy
TAPS | After accidentally summoning a demon on Grindr – he’s REALLY hot – Max must do whatever it takes to survive.
Louis Utieyin / Scotland / 5m | Writer: Louis Utieyin | Producer: Louis Utieyin
Moloch | A distinguished university art lecturer becomes possessed by his own art when he develops an inappropriate attraction to one of his male students.
Meghan O’Shaughnessy / Ireland / 16m | Writer: Shane Vaughan | Producer: Jamie Hooper
Foreign Bodies | A simple itch descends into an outbreak with many legs. Certain things will always find their way to the surface.
Lysander Wong / UK / 4m | Writer: Lysander Wong | Producer: Lysander Wong
The Dysphoria | A trans woman performs a satanic ritual to get a vagina, but unwittingly summons a demonic presence which demands a terrible sacrifice
Kylie Aoibheann / Australia / 13m | Writer: Kylie Aoibheann | Producer: Oliver Ellis
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The Serpent's Skin
Sixth feature from 21-year-old Australian director Alice Maio Mackay is a stylish homage to 90s and 00s genre film and TV, in this Buffy, True Blood and Twilight-inspired trans romance, edited by Vera Drew and produced by Louise Weard. When Anna (Alexandra McVickey) moves from her hometown, she meets goth tattoo artist Gen (Avalon Fast), led to each other through shared supernatural abilities. As their romance blossoms, Gen inadvertently summons a demon through a sick neck tattoo she gives Anna’s neighbour and ex-lover, Danny. The Serpent’s Skin is the culmination of Mackay’s neo-Araki aesthetic that has made her one of the most exciting voices in the new wave of independent trans cinema.
Be Back By 3 Pre-feature short
While embarking on a journey to buy water ice in West Philly, two women reach a tipping point in their secret relationship as they unknowingly celebrate their final day together.
Aliyah Dominique Jefferies / USA / 2024 / 21m | Writer: Aliyah Dominique Jefferies | Producers: Aliyah Dominique Jefferies, Kevin Herrera
Writers: Alice Maio Mackay, Ben Pahl Robinson
Producers: Alice Maio Mackay, Louise Weard
At the Place of Ghosts
Bretten Hannam’s follow-up to GAZE 2022’s opening film, Wildhood, explores intergenerational trauma for two Mi’kmaw brothers, Mise’l and Antle. When Mise’l is visited by a dark spirit, he leaves the city and his boyfriend to return to his hometown and see his brother. Though the two haven’t been close in many years, the dark spirit which Mise’l speaks of is tied to them both, and Antle agrees to help his brother. The two make a journey through a primordial forest, where time folds in on itself, revealing ancestral spirits, past and future, who will help or hinder them along their way, leading them to confront their violent upbringing. Visually arresting work from the two-spirit Mi'kmaq director, including profound moments that examine how the Mi’kmaw people relate to the land and to each other.
Spiders On My Lashline Pre-feature short
Following an attack, genderqueer pole dancer Ash takes shelter in a church, where childhood memories resurface and help them find strength again.
Grace Tan / Australia / 2026 / 8m | Writer: Grace Tan | Producers: Debbie Zhou, Chidiebube Uba, Grace Tan
Writers: Bretten Hannam
Producers: Marc Tetreault, Martin Katz, Jason Levangie, Diana Elbaum
Close Contact (Shorts Block)
Boxing, kung fu, lesbian mud wrestling. Vampire fighters, giant worm hunters, violent lesbian cat-women. Fighting, kicking, biting queer women take center stage in this block of films exploring all manners of female rage, retributive violence, and girls behaving badly.
Wakashu | A group of men stalk a trans woman at night, unaware that she’s the master of a martial arts dojo.
Lady Jill / Brazil / 11m | Writer: Lady Jill | Producer: Ana Kinukawa, Lucas Bueno
I Hate Helen | Being a teenager means facing a tidal wave of gay lust, and letting those feelings wash over you. But Priya actually hates the way she feels about Helen, and she won’t go under without a fight.
Katie Lambert / UK / 6m | Writer: Katie Lambert | Producer: Martha McGuirk, Rosie Brear
Gay By Nature | In a dystopian future, two lesbian cat-people are locked up and harassed by human guards and visitors. As the violence becomes unbearable, the two decide to break out, transforming countryside idyll into an antifascist fantasy of freedom.
Helen Weber, Isa Schieche / Austria, Germany / 21m | Writer: Isa Schieche | Producer: Helen Weber, Isa Schieche
PHOBOSPLUNKER | A hungry inventor must traverse the inside of her own mind in order to defeat the source of sudden, wormy hallucinations.
Bee Mulvihill / Ireland / 4m | Writer: Bee Mulvihill | Producer: Bee Mulvihill
Hot Young Geek Seeks Blood-Sucking Freak | Max and Ricky’s party prep is interrupted by the impending arrival of an angry vampire, who threatens to reveal Max’s secret online life. What’s Max going to do – kill a vampire, or come out?
Heath Virgoe / Scotland / 12m | Writer: Heath Virgoe | Producer: Niamh West
Oi | After a turbulent teenage girl undergoes a traumatic experience, she must face her own violent bravado head-on.
Sophie Serisier / Australia / 16m | Writer: Laneikka Denne | Producer: Monique Placko
The Martial Forest | In a dystopian present, exiled kung fu master Big Sister 13 leads a crew of trans and queer fighters to create the Martial Forest – a secret training ground where care is as powerful as combat.
J Triangular / Taiwan, Colombia / 8m | Writer: J Triangular | Producer: An An Chen, J Triangular
CATFIGHT | Two boxers are drawn into an escalating match, where combat mirrors queer intimacy – a wordless love story told through sweat, bruises, endurance, and surrender.
Tara Devi / Ireland / 3m | Writer: Tara Devi | Producer: Tara Devi
Lesbian Mud Wrestling | A wet, playful, slippy and heartwarming documentary tracking Kit’s quest for the Golden Strap – the ultimate prize of Lesbian Mud Wrestling, a community event raising funds for gender-affirming surgeries.
Kirsty Wilson / Australian / 15m | Writer: Kirsty Wilson | Producer: Merryn Trescott, Jasper Caverly
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Stop! That! Train!
The Glamazion Express is heading directly into a Stormaganza, and it’s up to former Stank Rail employees Tess (Ginger Minj) and DeeDee (Jujubee) and President Judy Gagwell (Ru) to save the day! With a heel-studded cast of queens, including Latrice Royal, Brooke Lynn Hytes, Symone, Angeria Paris VanMicheals, Michelle Visage, and star appearances from Sarah Michelle Gellar, Missi Pyle, Charo, Raven-Symoné, June Diane Raphael, the Pitt Crew and (insert even more names), expect the most joyful celeb whiplash of your life, for 90 mins of unapologetic queer goofery from Hairspray director Adam Shankman.
With pre-feature short film:
Cork is Burning Corcaigh thí Thine - Andrea Foley / Ireland / 2026 / 15m
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Lesbian Lines
Lesbian Lines captures the stories and experiences of volunteer workers in 1970s-1990s Ireland, who helped save the lives of thousands of women. This unique reflection on Ireland’s dyke history knits together a tapestry of first-hand recollections and anonymous stories recorded solely in logbooks, and listened to from dingy offices, bathrooms and shared community spaces across Dublin, Cork, Belfast and Galway. Marked with director Cara Holmes’ signature artistic flourish. What will move you endlessly is the indomitable spirit of the volunteers themselves - rebellious, quick-witted, cheeky and full of endless compassion and wisdom for the community they love and live for. Prepare to fall in love with them all.
Proudly supported by the Dublin Lesbian Line.
With pre-feature short:
Story Drive: Voices Unveiled- Marcelese Cooper / USA / 15m
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Iván & Hadoum
If I can implore you to see any film at GAZE this year, don’t let debut feature from Ian De La Rosa pass you by. Winner of the Teddy Award at the Berlinale, these two lovers, one Moroccan, one trans, placed on either side of the picket line at a commercial greenhouse, will lift your hearts and remind you that societal and familial challenges can be overcome by an openness of heart and willingness to learn. Led by remarkable performances from Herminia Loh Moreno and attending actor Silver Chicón, whose cultural and gender identities, refreshingly, never become the pivotal part of the film’s conflict. Set in rural Spain, Ivan & Hadoum feels remarkably close to home in its exploration of contemporary issues, including culture, identity and class.
With pre-feature Short:
Tumtum - Rebecca Ozer / UK / 2025 / 15m
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New Brazilian Shorts
Mirroring the Brazilian community’s vibrant contributions to Irish culture, this block of films celebrates a wide diversity of queer and trans Brazilian stories. From pop idols and capoeira legends of the eighties to the technofuturist witches of New Rio, exploring home, migration, music and magic, these five films are a perfect snapshot of the artistry and power in new Brazilian cinema.
Like A Prayer / Como Uma Oração | In 1989, a chance meeting with his trans neighbour Joana gives teenager Carlos a glimpse into the possibility of queer futures. When the two meet again years later, a great friendship emerges across generations
Director: Fernanda Estevam | Writer: Fernanda Estevam | Producers: Analu Bambirra, Fernanda Estevam, Fernanda Kalil, Lorena Cardoso | Brazil / 19m
Márcia | From a childhood on the streets of 1960s Brazil to her present status as a capoeira legend paving the way for women and queer people in the art form, the story of “Mestra Cigarra” Márcia Treidler is told through never-before-seen archival images and the voices of her lovers and friends.
Director: Claudia Andrea Escobar | Writer: Claudia Andrea Escobar | Producer: Claudia Andrea Escobar | USA / 16m
Those Who Move / Quem se Move | Over the course of one night, René navigates her vibrant yet precarious life as a Brazilian immigrant in Lisbon. Drifting between fleeting moments of freedom and the uncertainty of her future, she must decide whether to remain illegal in an increasingly unfamiliar city, or to return to a home she once escaped.
Director: Stephanie Ricci | Writer: Stephanie Ricci | Producer: André Bulascoschi, Pedro Formigoni, Rodrigo Lavorato, Stephanie Ricci, João Matos | Brazil / 20m
Fireworks / Fogos de Artifício | Between the obvious and the unexpected, a scintillating New Year’s Eve party moves dreams and breaks rules.
Director: Andréia Pires | Writer: Andréia Pires | Producer: Ana Vitória Almeida, Andréia Pires | Brazil / 22m
If I'm Here It Is By Mystery / Se Eu Tô Aqui é Por Mistério | In the year 2054, many people are trans – but few are witches. Dahlia arrives to New Rio with one mission: to found the most powerful Clan that has ever existed and defeat the Order of Truth.
Director: Clari Ribeiro | Writer: Éri Sarmet | Producer: Éri Sarmet | Brazil / 22m
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Café au GAZE
Thanks to the support of Screen Ireland and the Goethe Institut, Café au GAZE will return to the festival this year as a one-day festival skills forum at the Light House Cinema on Thursday, 30th July. Featuring a day of talks and panels with Irish and International guests, including Cara Holmes (Lesbian Lines), Kate Dolan (Soulm8te), Silver Chicon (Ivan & Hadoum) and Berlinale programmer Bartholomew Sammut, with the full line-up to be announced.
Expect of enriching panels, which bring together Irish and International LGBTQIA film professionals to discuss the development, production and distribution of LGBTQIA cinema, share ideas and network.
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New Irish Shorts
This year’s New Irish Shorts come to us urgent and heartfelt. They lay bare the crises facing our most marginalised communities, yet stay brimming with hope and determination. Familiar queer tales of tradition and family come to us in new shapes, through new voices, while untold queer stories of Traveller and HIV-positive migrant experiences are finally shared on the big screen. It’s a picture of Ireland as we know it, and of the country we hope it might become.
A Song | Over a summer steeped in song, a growing connection begins to heal Noel’s childhood wounds – until the return of his estranged mother threatens to reopen them.
Ellius Grace / Ireland / 18m | Writer: Shaun Dunne | Producer: Louise Byrne
placeholder | A young trans masc from a distant country finds a new home in Ireland, but the nation’s own problems quickly start to take a toll on him.
Elisa Beli Borrelli / Ireland / 7m | Writer: Elisa Beli Borrelli
Something in the Air | Exquisitely shot by Irish photographer Niamh Barry, this short documentary follows the life of Raychel Sanner, a storm chaser, environmental advocate, and trans woman living in Oklahoma, USA.
Niamh Barry / Ireland / 17m | Producer: Niamh Barry
Out of Shadows | Through sumptuous visuals and lively choreography, three queer immigrants living with HIV share their journeys of finding safety, identity, and community in Ireland.
Pradeep Mahadeshwar / Ireland / 15m | Writer: Pradeep Mahadeshwar | Producer: Adam Rael, John Dillon Breen
His House, Home | When a queer carer arrives to help Lucas care for his disabled father, Lucas is forced to confront his fear of coming out, and their strained relationship.
Director: Aisling O'Regan Sargent / Ireland / I5m | Writer: Philip Emo | Producer: Killian Casey, Philip Emo
Queen Lizzy | This raw and honest documentary portrays the life of Elizabeth Connors, a queer Traveller woman and spoken word poet, and her relationship with her family who have yet to come to terms with her sexuality.
David McDonagh / Ireland / 14m | Producer: Keith Bogue
Marguerite | Marguerite, a woman isolated because of her political views, is confronted by her estranged daughter.
Paul Webster / Ireland / 14m | Writer: Paul Webster | Producer: Aidan White, Nathan Griffin
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New Irish Shorts | Access Screening
This will be a relaxed screening of our New Irish Shorts with Irish Sign Language (ISL) interpreters, integrated captions, dim lighting, reduced volume, and a welcoming environment where audience members are free to move, express themselves, and take breaks as needed.
This year’s New Irish Shorts come to us urgent and heartfelt. They lay bare the crises facing our most marginalised communities, yet stay brimming with hope and determination. Familiar queer tales of tradition and family come to us in new shapes, through new voices, while untold queer stories of Traveller and HIV-positive migrant experiences are finally shared on the big screen. It’s a picture of Ireland as we know it, and of the country we hope it might become.
A Song - Ellius Grace / Ireland / 18m
placeholder - Elisa Beli Borrelli / Ireland / 7m
Something in the Air - Director: Niamh Barry / Ireland / 17m
Out of Shadows - Pradeep Mahadeshwar / Ireland / 15m
His House, Home - Aisling O'Regan Sargent / Ireland / I5m
Queen Lizzy - David McDonagh / Ireland / 14m
Marguerite - Paul Webster / Ireland / 14m
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The Passion According to G.H.B.
Matias invites Grindr hookups to an apartment-sit in rainy São Paulo, connecting over kinks, chemsex, HIV status and classic literature. This post-pandemic magical realist gay bedroom odyssey, including unsimulated sex, is told in largely vérité-style with unvarnished honesty and compassion. A film told in three parts - an orgy, an imagined visit to Matias from Clarice Lispector (author of The Passion According to G.H.), and a final interview with Jesse, whose lived experience offers an emotional, critical reflection on the same film the audience has just watched. The result is an uncompromising but ultimately hopeful reflection on how desire, escape, and survival coexist in a world still profoundly hostile to queer existence.
Proudly supported by the Gay Health Network.
With pre-feature short:
The Pleasure Dome - Valter Pereira / Brazil / 2026 / 17m
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Joy Boy: A Tribute to Julius Eastman
In collaboration with aemi, Joy Boy: A Tribute To Julius Eastman sees six filmmakers come together to pay cinematic tribute to the transcendent music, queer activism, and vibrant spirituality of African American composer, performer, and activist Julius Eastman (1940–1990). Originally a classically trained pianist, Eastman became a central figure in New York’s experimental music scene in the late 1970s. His music is known for its slow, cumulative structure, often bearing politically charged titles such as Evil N**** and Gay Guerrilla, marking both a radical compositional stance and an uncompromising political gesture.
With pre-feature short:
How to Dance - Aileen Ye / Netherlands, UK / 2026 / 10m
With Victoire Karera Kampire and Aileen Ye in attendance.
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Jaripeo | Closing Film
Filmmaker Efrain Mojica travels to their hometown in Penjamillo, Michoacán, with friend and filmmaker Rebecca Zweig to show us the counter-culture that lives alongside the local rodeos (or ‘jaripeos’). Typically hyper-masculine spaces, this audience will appreciate the swaggering campness of the rancheros, but in a conservative Catholic atmosphere, sexual openness is reserved until the steamy, alcohol-fueled hours after midnight. Blending personal experience with Super 8 footage and erotic imagery, the emotional core comes from Mojica’s frank conversations with Zweig, macho cowboy Noé and flamboyant diva Joseph. Mojica, navigating their own reflections on masculinity, offers open-hearted understanding on the effects of secrecy in shaping identity.
With pre-feature short:
Abjad Hawaz (أبجد هوز) - Hadi Moussally / Lebanon, France, Spain / 5m
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Trial of Hein
Handsome German period debut from Trial of Hein director Kai Stänicke crafts the story of Hein, returning to his home island after being away for 14 years. Upon his arrival, the locals don’t recognise him, so the town elder hosts a trial to determine whether or not he is the island’s prodigal son. This finely turned script tantalises the audience with its perception of truth and memory, leaving us guessing right up until the film’s emotionally impactful ending. Will the love Hein has travelled in pursuit of, in turn, recognise Hein in the manner in which he desires? This film’s restrained design and beautiful cinematography tease overtones of folk horror into this contemporary social allegory, with a remarkable lead performance from Paul Boche.
Proudly supported by the Goethe Institut
With pre-feature short:
Venenus - Marie Fages / France, Portugal / 2026/ 6m
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Somebody's Watching Me (Shorts Block)
Since GAZE’s founding in 1992, queer life has drastically transformed from the unspoken to the hypervisible. This block collects historical perspectives on the colonial camera, new visions of video self-portraits, and thrilling narratives of supernatural stalkers to ask: What does it mean to be queer and trans in 2026, when nearly nothing is private, everyone is witnessed, and everything is recorded?
bailey.banshee | A trans content creator leaves America for the greener grass of Ireland – but something has followed her across the ocean. Something that might never let her go.
Director: Jack Warren / Ireland / 8m | Writer: Jack Warren | Producer: Jack Warren
My Structuralist Film | In a confessional-cum-guided meditation, filmmaker Angelo Madsen questions how thoroughly a trans body should need to be visible, and on what terms trans filmmakers are obligated to perform visibility for an audience.
Angelo Madsen / USA / 6m
Equator Song | Drawing inspiration from the imperial 1896 German Colonial Exhibition, where 106 people from Africa and Oceania were displayed as living exhibits, this film transforms the machinery of photographic representation into an act of defiance – a cinematic hymn to those who refused to be captured.
Melina Florencia Pafundi Miranda / Argentina, Germany / 15m | Writer: Melina Florencia Pafundi Miranda | Producer: Melina Florencia Pafundi Miranda
How to Find a Career that Loves You Back | When two trans women are chosen as company representatives for a career fair, the trip ignites a fragile romance and budding doubts about their work for a defense-technology corporation.
Ethernet Wang / USA / 25m | Writer: Ethernet Wang, Ember Streshinsky | Producer: Ethernet Wang
ROAD RUNNER | A meditation on moving incognegro through the world as a Black person of Trans experience; a portrait of what it means to honor ourselves now, in motion, before the world catches up.
Yaz Josiah / USA / 17m | Writer: Yaz Josiah | Producer: Yaz Josiah
Method Cowboy | After lying about his sexuality to land the lead role in a gay film, a struggling actor begins surveilling and mimicking the gay men around him, blurring the lines between reality and performance.
Carlos Valdivia / USA / 13m | Writer: Carlos Valdivia | Producer: Julia Kennelly, Karine Benzaria, Lucy Rennick
Wherever You Are | Two teens in a secret relationship are finally able to explore intimacy on a romantic lakeside camping trip, but they can’t stop spotting a presence in the darkness: looming, watching, judging, ready to swallow them whole.
Ryan Michael Hoskins / 18m / USA | Writer: Ryan Michael Hoskins | Producer: Daniel Greenstreet, Ryan Michael Hoskins
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Give Me The Ball!
Give Me The Ball! This compelling documentary about tennis icon Billie Jean King by Liz Garbus and Elizabeth Wolff will make you want to pick up your placard and take to the streets. From King’s fight for equal pay for women in tennis, to the Battle of the Sexes match with Bobby Riggs (immortalised in a film of the same name), to her complicated relationship with her sexuality, unveiled in the public eye. This blend of contemporary interviews with Elton John, Serena Williams, and King’s great love, Ilana Kloss, is teaming with joy, anger, rebellion and victory. The incredible legacy as a sportswoman and advocate for women’s sport, which Billie Jean continues to build upon today, will reignite your fire and remind you that great change is possible.
Proudly supported by Sporting Pride Ireland.
With pre-feature short:
Our Own Game - Medb Johnstone / Ireland / 2026 / 19m
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On the Road
Prepare yourself for taut, sexy Mexican thriller, On The Road from David Pablos. Winner of the Queer Lion and the Horizons competition at Venice. Sex worker Veneno is abandoned at a pitstop after a truck driver stiffs him, before finding a ride with closeted daddy, Muñeco. Sweat and sexual tension build across the dry landscape and neon lights of Mexico’s highways, when their relationship takes a (very!) heated turn. It is gradually revealed that Veneno is on the run from a dangerous past, while Muñeco is failing to confront the root of his addiction. A thrilling ending full of heartbreak and tenderness awaits.
Proudly supported by Queer Spectrum Film Festival.
With pre-feature short:
Destroy me, please - Flora Woudstra Hablé / country / 2025 / Belgium
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Testing Limits (Shorts Block)
Queer desire can feel like an unstoppable force at times. It drives us to test friendships, push boundaries and flirt with danger. Sleek, sexy, thrilling, these short films dance on the knife’s edge of desire, following protagonists whose love, lust and passions push them towards confrontation and the inevitable fallout.
Pakka | Four gay Indian friends share an unbreakable bond on a Dutch cricket field. But when one agrees to an arranged marriage in India, their chosen family begins to unravel.
Iniyvan Elumalai / Netherlands / 18m | Writer: Iniyavan Elumalai, Maaike Hasselaar, Jessie Tiemeijer | Producer: Daniel Dow
I Prefer You Flawed | Ash and Cleon’s messy night out escalates to an argument after an offhand comment about opening up their relationship. An intimate confrontation over one claustrophobic night forces them to ask, is this fight about staying together, or finally being seen?
Nayan Sharma / UK / 17m | Writer: Nayan Sharma | Producer: Matthew Deeley, Anil Kaygili
Little Miss Fortune | A young journalist must find a story before midnight or lose his job. Luckily, he stumbles upon two of the most unhinged besties in Belfast.
Conor Toner / Ireland / 10m | Writer: Conor Toner | Producer: James Hall | Country: Ireland | Runtime: 10’
Simon at the Nightshop | A middle forty-something middle class man falls in love with a local cashier, but unspoken assumptions about class and power sour desire into obsession.
Thanasis Tsimpinis / Belgium / 15m | Writer: Thanasis Tsimpinis | Producer: Eby Kadima Kassanda | Country: Belgium | Runtime: 15’
CHASER | A trans woman on a night out crosses paths with a charming stranger, but he may not have her best interest at heart.
Jesse Williams / UK / 10m | Writer: Jesse Williams | Producer: Lucy Maughan | Country: UK | Runtime: 10’
Guille, 28 | After chatting with Guille on a dating app, Mario meets him in-person and brings him home to sleep together. But the man in his home is not Guille.
Miguel Alcalde de la Fuente / Spain / 17m | Writer: Miguel Alcalde de la Fuente | Producer: Miguel Alcalde de la Fuente
Upon Starvation | In the city’s crowded buses, Vivek survives by pickpocketing closeted men and exploiting their desires. His emotionally detached worldview is upended when one of his victims returns, seeking not revenge, but intimacy.
Saurav Mahind / India / 16m | Writer: Saurav Mahind, Tejas Shende
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Bound
On its 30th anniversary, we honour the Wachowski sisters' debut, which established their careers, before The Matrix catapulted them into the cinematic stratosphere. This gangster film noir subverts several genre expectations and flips the script, putting us on the side of the femme fatale. When magnetic lead Violet (Jennifer Tilly) invites ex-con turned maintenance guy, Corky (Gina Gershon), over to fix her plumbing - and we are not mad about it- the two women are soon trying to find a way to escape Violet’s boyfriend Caesar (Joe Pantoliano), a mid-level functionary in the Chicago crime syndicate. It’s irreverent in its eroticism, tense, and unlike parallel movies of its time, Bound’s feminist stance is clear – these women are getting out of the patriarchal mob society. Delight in rediscovering this cinematic gem, and re-appreciate the delightful trans sensibility that runs through all the Wachowskis’ work.
With pre-feature short:
Stimulants & Empathogens - Mateusz Pacewicz / Poland / 25m
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