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November Events...

  • Aesthetica Short Film Festival (ASFF)
  • Afrikamera
  • BIGff: Bari International Gender Film Festival
  • Chéries-Chéris
  • East London LGBTQ+ Film Festival
  • ENDIMARIS - Sitges LGTBIQ+ Film Festival
  • Esslingen Queer Film Festival
  • FACE à FACE
  • Fancinegay
  • Feast Festival
  • Filmový Festival Inakosti - Slovak Queer Film Festival
  • Florence Queer Festival
  • Gender Bender
  • Holebi Filmfestival Vlaams-Brabant
  • Holebi Kort
  • Homotopia
  • image+nation
  • Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival
  • Kansai Queer Film Festival
  • LesGaiCineMad
  • Melbourne Queer Film Festival
  • Melt Open
  • Mezipatra Queer Filmový Festival
  • MIX NYC
  • MixBrasil Sexual Diversity Film Festival
  • OFN LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
  • Outburst Queer Arts Festival
  • OutfestNEXT
  • OutReels Cincinnati
  • Pink Panorama LesBiSchwules Festival Luzern
  • Pink Screens in Brussels
  • Queens World Film Festival
  • Queer Film Festival: Playa del Carmen
  • Queer Porto
  • Queersicht Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Bern
  • Queerstreifen Münster
  • Queertactics
  • San Francisco Transgender Film Festival
  • Seoul International PRIDE Film Festival
  • USN – Sardinia Queer Film Expo
  • ZE Festival
East London LGBTQ+ Film Festival

East London LGBTQ+ Film Festival

Saturday, 08 November 2025 until Sunday, 09 November 2025

The East London LGBTQ+ Film Festival is a festival created by Kaleidoscope to show sensational independent and studio cinema made for and by members of the LGBTQIA+ Community. This festival hopes to inspire our youth community and raise important funds for the charitable organisation.

Kaleidoscope is a free social club for LGBTQ+ youth based in Romford.

You will be able to compete for one of five awards:

Best Feature Film

Best Short Film

Best Documentary

Best Performance

Best Music Video


 

2025 films...

Saturday red session

 

Purvette

Alex Eisenberg
5min (UK)

 

If This Were Purgatory

Honey Birch
5min (UK)

 

Pawesome!

Deborah Espect
1h 28min (UK)


1pm - 3pm

Saturday ORANGE session

 

Seahorse

Leo Tabosa
22min (Brazil)

 

It's Always Been Me

Julie Bezerra Madsen
1h 12min (Denmark)


3pm - 5pm

Saturday Yellow session

 

Until Tomorrow

Vincent Cooper
2min (USA)

 

I Need Somebody to Love Tonight

Kevin Kane
2min (UK)

 

What Remains

Christophe Madrolle
4min (France)

 

Oasis

Leonardo Martinez
4min (USA)

 

Binge

J.C. Heins
14min (USA)

 

The Fangs I'm After

Rebecca Chivers
3min (USA)

 

APNEA

Fabio Patrassi
12min (Italy)

 

Clam Diving for Beginners

Clara Marshall
18min (Germany)

 

Space Daddy

Stephen Carruthers
10min (UK)

 

Divine Intervention

Ravenna Tran
17min (UK)


6pm - 7pm

Saturday Green session

 

Fairview Park

Ellie Hodgetts
Aymeric Nicolet
13min (UK)

 

404 Still Remain

Ha-neul UHM
1h 43min (Korea, Republic of)


6pm - 8pm

Saturday Blue session

 

The Last Goodbye

Kailey Wolf
16min (USA)

 

Forgive Me Father

Grac Talbot
5min (UK)

 

The remaining Sundays

Manolo Pavón
17min (Spain)

 

Playground

Tayla Halfacre
10min (UK)

 

God forgive me

Kat Sigalas
16min (Greece)


8pm - 10pm

Saturday Indigo session

 

Velvet Vision - The Story of James Bidgood (and the Making of Pink Narcissus)

Bart Everly
1h 37min (USA)


11am - 1pm

Sunday red session

 

Mx.

Wwenen Lusa
5min (UK)

 

If June never fades

Philipp Boukhors
Theo Carow
29min (Germany)

 

Goddess

Cyprien Clément-Delmas
1h 10min (France)


12pm - 2pm

Sunday ORANGE session

 

CLUTTER

James Card
12min (UK)

 

Lolita

Jorge Xolalpa
1h 30 (Mexico)


2pm - 4pm

Sunday yellow session

 

We'll Go Down in History

Cameron Richards
Charlie Tidmas
25min (UK)

 

Why We Pride

Natalie Scarsbrook
8min (UK)

 

QUEERTAWE - the documentary

Callum Bruce-Phillips
26min (UK)


4pm - 6pm

Sunday Green session

 

Queer and Longing

Bear Hanrahan
6min (UK)

 

Breaking The Plateau

Zara Woolf
5min (UK)

 

Paint (Sub Eng)

Callum Blue
22min (UK)

 

Stella Anyways

Yan Berthemy
17min (France)

 

The Fig & The Wasp

Sterling Marie Knight
5min (France)