Lust*streifen Film Festival Basel

Thursday, 09 October 2025 until Saturday, 11 October 2025

The underrepresentation of queers in film is reality. They are in need of a visible platform, to promote the acceptance of diversity. Because visibility creates reflexion and reflexion gives us awareness. Awareness leads to movement and movement is change.

We want to bring queer stories througout the world to the screen, to make space for reflexion and productive discussions. Our films are provoking, revolutionary, feminist, experimental, political, kinky, sex positive, contradictory, punk, trashy, gay, hetero, trans*, polyamorous, monogamic and much more.

Audience Award
Best Fictional Short Film
Best Documentary Short Film
Best Porn Short Film

2025 films...

Heidilicious

Offside – an unequal Game

The filmmaker is fed up, she questions gender codes in sports. Material from her personal family archives meets found footage. As old codes are dismantled, the remaining pieces are formed into new questions.

Katja Stirnemann
Switzerland 2025
14' D/e
Documentary

Cottage Cheese

When Mika sits down on the toilet, she is horrified to discover something slimy and “cottage cheese-like” in her underwear. In search of answers, she embarks on a bizarre journey into her own vagina.

Liina Luomajoki, Lena Metzger, Janina Müller, Alice Kunz
Switzerland 2024
5' OV/e
Animation

Las Mañanitas

Writing a letter to Paul B. Preciado, philosopher and trans filmmaker, as one would write to a friend. As a queer child growing up in a Spanish evangelical family, undergoing a healing process. From Lausanne to New York, Lézio Schiffke-Rodriguez follows in the footsteps of social revolutions that invite us to redefine our view of binary bodies.

Lézio Schiffke-Rodriguez
Switzerland 2024
11' F/e
Documentary

Su Twice

Su, a young Italian gardener, works in Switzerland. One morning she is summoned by her boss to defend herself against an accusation of theft at work. Su recounts the day's events, in which she became familiar with her older and mysterious colleague Lore. As the interview with the boss proceeds, Su realises that in order to protect herself she has to tell a different version of the actual events.

Agnese Làposi
Switzerland, Italy 2024
19' I/e
Fiction

Was wir nicht sagen konnten

A web of untold love stories. “For we do not fall, we always shatter and reassemble ourselves.” A search for queer temporality that reveals the lines between generations.

Noemi Vollenweider
Switzerland 2024
16' OV/e
Documentary

Niñxs

The Moment before

Believe Me When I Say

When Kevin Sarinko said that they are non-binary for the very first time, they felt excited, but also nervous. In the documentary Kevin looks back at the shame they experienced in the past reminding them that the road to loving and accepting yourself isn’t always easy. Now Kevin wants to encourage other people to find peace and freedom by being their authentic self.

Alexandra Herva
Finland 2024
7' OV/e
Documentary, Experimental

NO!!!

Sekar and her girlfriend, Bebi, are playing a mobile game where their avatars are in bridal gowns, rehearsing for their wedding when Sekar’s mom suddenly calls.

Oktania Hamdani, Winner Wijaya
Indonesia 2022
8' OV/e
Romance, Comedy, Horror

Translucent

TRANSLUCENT tells the perspective of gender-diverse athletes inspired by the real life example of tennis player Renée Richards. Produced within 48 hours, this film looks back on Renées vibrant career in competitive sport and her search for belonging through the eyes of her older self. It raises the most pressing question in the sports world right now onto the tennis court: Where do trans athletes belong in the sports principles of fairness?

Kat Schmitz
Germany 2024
2' D/e
Experimental

Safe Space

This documentary discusses how LGBTIQA+ people experience the streets and nightlife of Istanbul in terms of a safe space through the unique, yet common experiences of queers from different backgrounds, and focuses especially on nightlife and the issue of safe space there, which is a very critical area for queers to exist as they are.

Nurcan Çoban
Turkey 2024
13' OV/e
Documentary

Butterfly Kiss

Carol panics and argues with her girlfriend Ray after an unexpected proposal. The situation gets worse when she wakes up in an apocalyptic reality and terribly discovers that Ray has transformed into a butterfly. Ray's transformation, the invasion of the outside world into their home, and the growing tension between the two threaten their relationship. Carol is afraid of losing Ray... but devoting yourself to your girlfriend could come at a price.

Zohar Dvir
Germany, Israel 2024
10' OV
Animation, Romance, Dark

FAREWELL EMILE

Tim lost his father a few months ago. Today, he is about to break up with his boyfriend Émile. Confined to his home, Tim delves into the memories of their relationship, mingled with those of his father. Refusing to accept the separation, he embarks on a desperate digital hunt to find Émile.

Alexis Diop
France 2024
25' F/e
Coming-of-Age, Romantic Drama

Life after Love

Star Crosswalked

A young guy waiting to cross the street has a surreal encounter.

Max Watkins
US 2025
1' E
Fiction

Carrotica

CARROTICA ambitiously tackles a triple narrative: the sexual reawakening of a middle-aged single mother, the anxious adolescence of a horny but stunted queer teenager, and the narration of the erotic story written by the protagonist.

Daniel Sterlin-Altman
Germany 2024
13' E/d/e
Stop motion, Comedy, Drama

Bisexual Crisis!!!

When a gay man drunkenly leans in to kiss his (female) best friend, he and his sexuality are thrown into crisis. He doesn't want to take things further — but she kinda does.

Lyndon Henley Hanrahan
United Kingdom 2024
11' E
Comedy, Drama

HIV Fell in Love With Me

HIV FELL IN LOVE WITH ME tells the story of a woman with HIV embracing her sexuality and reconnecting with her pleasure. Filmed with an erotic aesthetic, the video reflects a pursuit towards sexual justice and autonomy for women living with HIV.

Mariana Iacono, Juan de la Mar
Colombia 2024
8' Sp/e
Documentary, Erotic

Find the Boy

As Charly, a young trans man, is laid to rest under his birth name, Tom, Louise and BB, his queer pals, decide to pay their last respects in his own image in a place where they used to meet, Charly's childhood home. But Victor, his brother, had the same idea.

Paulin.e Goasmat
France 2025
18' F/e
Romantic Drama

Three

At her birthday party, a Chinese woman who has recently moved to the United States to live with her daughter tries to keep her daughter's secrets from her new friends.

Amie Song
China, US 2024
15' OV/e
Drama

Lesbian Space Princess

Boxing against

High Driver

Since early childhood, Tuan and Felix have been inseparable. As they train to become Olympic high divers, however, their budding love for each other suffers under the weight of the competition. Professional sport is a harsh business, and Tuan will sacrifice everything for it ... or will he?

Oscar Bittner
Germany 2024
5' No Dialogue
Animation, Coming-of-Age

LOLO

LOLO lives alone in Xochimilco and strives to maintain the harvest of a chinampa farm that belonged to their grandfather. Despite the calmness among the crops, LOLO doesn't feel free to cultivate their true self. One afternoon at the street market, LOLO reunites with an old friend, KAT. In her company, LOLO discovers an open space where they can feel free to be who they are.

Ana Gabriela Gutiérrez Salgado
Mexico 2024
15' Sp/e
Fiction, Coming-of-Age

SONDESH

Farhana's seemingly content marriage to her husband hides her longing for a deeper connection. A chance encounter with another woman, Nisha, ignites the spark within Farhana. She is forced to confront her true desires and navigate a world that is hostile of their identities. When Nisha's sudden departure coincides with a life-changing revelation from Farhana's husband, Farhana must deal with love, loss, and discouragement.

Humaira Hannan Snigdha
Bangladesh 2024
10' OV/e
Drama

The Crest

Inside a cold hospital room, a group of doctors attend the birth of a baby. In the doctor's hands is the fleshy and feathery destiny of the newborn. What will be their gender? Years later, we celebrated the child's birthday, now a young adult. On this special day with their family, they seek how to forge the path toward genuine expression of their being.

Nanichi S Nieves Díaz
Puerto Rico 2024
4' Sp/e
Animation, Drama, Absurd

Boxing Against the Binary

In BOXING AGAINST THE BINARY, filmmaker Esmée van Loon takes us to a unique gym in Rotterdam. Queer Gym is a space designed for non-normative bodies to exercise, build community, and stay active both mentally and physically. The film follows Romy, the passionate founder, who shares his motivation for creating a safe and inclusive space. Through intimate conversations with Romy, members, and trainers, it becomes clear how the gym helps them rediscover joy and confidence in movement.

Esmée van Loon
Netherlands 2024
17' OV/e
Documentary, Swiss Premiere

Gender Reveal

Rhys, a dedicated people pleaser, winds up at their boss’ gender reveal party with their two partners. The trans throuple soon realize that they are dealing with more than they were prepared for and their ability to survive the event comes into question.