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Cinema Queer International Film Festival
Monday, 28 September 2026 until Sunday, 04 October 2026
Cinema Queer was founded in 2012 with a mission to broaden the heteronormative cinematic selection in Sweden, as well as to offer Stockholm audiences a wide range of queer film. Cinema Queer focuses on films that question, discuss, and isn’t limited to existing norms while highlighting stories that otherwise wouldn’t be recognised.
2026 films...
Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building
Black Carnations and Baltic Queer History at CFF
Inspired by the exhibition Black Carnation by Konstantin Zhukov at the Centre for Photography (CFF), Cinema Queer presents an evening dedicated to Baltic queerness. In his artistic practice, Zhukov explores Latvia’s queer history, focusing on the Soviet era and the period immediately following the country’s liberation. With Black Carnation, he further develops this interest through new works. The evening features a specially curated program of Baltic video art in the CFF garden, alongside a performative reading with Konstantin Zhukov.
About *Black Carnation: Case Study No. 2
Black Carnation: Case Study No. 2 continues the artist’s exploration of queer history in his native Latvia. This iteration examines oral histories regarding the first gay parties organized in the early 1990s, shortly after the country gained independence from the Soviet Union. These experiences bear witness to a broader process of liberation and freedom within a Baltic context—a narrative that is often overlooked yet holds crucial significance.
She Has A Beard
Rita Moreira & Norma Bahía Pontes / Brazil, USA / 1975 / 27 min
In Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig’s Brouillon pour un dictionnaire des amantes, bearded women are defined as lovers who tend to their chin hair with great care. Dancer Forest Hope strolls Manhattan with her beard provoking reactions that blur gender lines and tear beauty stereotypes apart.
Lesbian Mothers
Rita Moreira & Norma Bahía Pontes / Brazil, USA / 1972 / 27 min
A documentary-experimental piece that both testifies to legal struggles and explores eroticism among lesbian mothers fighting custody battles. It fractures the nuclear family ideal, embracing autonomy and affirming other ways of existing.
Lesbianism Feminism
Rita Moreira & Norma Bahía Pontes / Brazil, USA / 1974 / 29 min
Where do lesbians fit within feminism? Interviews with Ti-Grace Atkinson and Margaret Sloan-Hunter, alongside march footage, lay bare the tensions, common horizons, separatisms, and divergences of a movement in constant self-invention.
Focus: Queer Latin American Archive
Episode 1: Fuck The Fascism
Valentina del Pantéon and Jorge Benavides / 2016 / 8,29 min
Fuck the Fascism reveals the true story behind monuments that glorify genocide, tyranny and slavery; to raise public awareness of the national heroes we celebrate, the men who name our streets and bequeathed vast fortunes created through robbery, assault and blood. This political documentary porn short film is an open invitation to anyone who wants to participate and contribute to this porno-vandalic collective project. Monsters, mutants, queers, sudakas, migrants, dissidents; those who wake up and want to wake others up. We break down walls imposed by (un)knowledge; we fuck the robbers of fascist dignitaries, the heroes of colonialism. At the crime scene, we ejaculate real history on their stone bodies.
Episode 2: Fuck the Fascism in Rome
Valentina del Pantéon and Jorge Benavides / 2017 / 11,50 min
This is the second episode of the political porn documentary film project Fuck the Fascism. It was written, shot and edited in just four days during the Hacker Porn Film Festival in Rome.
Episode 3: Fuck the Fascism in Paris
Valentina del Pantéon and Jorge Benavides / 2018 / 16 min
The third episode was filmed in Paris during the Porn Yourself Festival 2017. Paris; the city of love. Obscene colonialism and statues with the biggest testicles we’ve ever seen. We rubbed and fingered history’s holiest monuments, causing John Paul II to burn a little earlier than Notre Dame. As if the Eiffel Tower were a dildo, we introduced ourselves to France’s fetid colonial history and its fascination with anthropozoological exhibits.
Episode 4: The Crossroad of Two Worlds
Valentina del Pantéon and Jorge Benavides / 2019 / 9,35 min
In Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego, Selk’nam descendant Marcos García tells the horrific story of the ethnocide of the Fuegian people. His testimony makes us aware of how this history repeats itself; how the precursors of these massacres and their heirs – now powerful businessmen and politicians – are still responsible for appropriation and violent repression of communities. Formerly it was the mutilation of Selk’nam ears; now, in the midst of the Chilean social uprising, it is the eyes of the mestizos that are being shot by the police. MariaBasura and other activists decide to take revenge, which leads them to a small town in Asturias, Spain, the birthplace of Jose Menendez Menendez, one of the forefathers of the genocide.
Episode 5: Post pandemic war-ra edition
Valentina del Pantéon and Jorge Benavides / 2022 / 7,06 min
After a long period of enforced inactivity, Fuck the Fascism returns to the streets of Berlin. Not only are they horny for fucking monuments, they are also angry and eager to share information about war during pandemic times. This is a call to disobedience.
Latinamerican Queer Archives and Restorations
Susana
Susana Blaustein Muñoz / Argentina / 1980 / 25 min
An experimental autobiographical portrait; like a diary in moving images. Susana leaves her homeland in Argentina to live her life free from the cultural pressure and family structures. In those 23 minutes, she confronts her entire family—but especially her sister—about her life as a lesbian, interspersed with images from her personal archive and interviews with her friends and lovers. This is a politically significant film, as it is the one that explicitly mentions lesbianism in Argentine cinema for the first time.
Old Love Dies Hard
Susana Blaustein Muñoz / Argentina / 2013 / 8 min
Many years later, this is another biographical short film from Susana Blaustein that tells her story with Christina and takes us from Stockholm to Buenos Aires. Susana and Christina met when they were in their twenties and reconnected on Facebook 35 years later. Their love was rekindled when they were 60, and this is a brief account of what happened.
Private House
Gloria Camiruaga / Chile / 1990 / 9 min
A portrait of travesti marginality crossed and altered by Christian signs in the daily metaphor, acquiring a meaning that mixes the pagan and the divine. This video was censored in Chile by the Cinematographic Qualification Commission. As a result of this, the artists Pedro Lemebel and Francisco Casas, known as ”Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis”, carried out a famous protest performance, in solidarity with Gloria Camiruaga.
Red Was The Colour Of Their Lips
Henrique Magalhães / Brazil / 1983 / 15 min
At a Carnival camp, two boys meet and get involved. This independent production portrays discrimination among homosexuals themselves and stereotypes often attached to gay men. One of them catches the other dressed as a woman. A disagreement ensues. The film was scanned by CineLimite from the original Super 8 camera element, which had been preserved by director Henrique Magalhães.
Helô E Dirce – Mangú Bangue
Luiz Otávio Pimentel / Brazil / 1972 / 18.27 min
On the street, two boys meet. The film moves towards homoerotic suggestions of delicacy and violence, accompanied by a fast camera. Performances, soundtrack, graphic elements and posters make up the narrative. This film is considered a lost film. The restoration was carried out from the last known surviving element, a VHS copy. Through a careful digital restoration, CineLimite was able to recover a significant amount of image detail and reconstruct the film’s original color as faithfully as possible.
The works presented at Cinema Queer are:
Anna-Stina Treumund (EST) “Mothers”, 2008, 8 min, Estonian with English subt.
Anna-Stina Treumund “Loser”, 2011, 1 min, English with Estonian subt.
Laura Stasiulytė (LT) “From the Life of Young Ladies”, 2001, 14 min, Lithuanian and English.
Santa Lingevičiūtė (LT) “And Death Shall Have No Dominion” 2008, 4 min 34 s, English.
Chevron Moustache
Kolbrún Inga Söring / Sweden / 2025 / 18:15 min
Chevron Moustache is a film born through my performative processes and creative writing. The film uses a script which was first a performance both in different installment editions but also in its entirety. The film takes on camp and theatrical essay film characteristics. Through processes of rethinking and expanding upon the story of The Little Mermaid a narrative emerges around body modification, desire and self representation – focusing on the euphoric experience of gaining a mascara moustache.
We Owe You Nothing
REMBODY / Sweden / 2023 / 5:32 min
The music video for Rembody’s debut song We Owe You Nothing. Video recording and production in collaboration with artists Kai Merke and Mo Moesgaard. Paper Mache Beings made by Anne Louise Fink and Mo Moesgaard. Recorded in the North Forest in Kulhuse, Denmark. Edited by Silas Lilo Jensen aka Rembody.
PREMIER: Slugs, Snails and Slurs
Zafira Vrba Woodski / Sweden / 2025 / 5 min (Swedish Language only), Premier!
Slugs, Snails and Slurs is based on questions and statements that trans people are expected to answer. Unlike in real life, where a clever answer could make the situation even more unsafe, the slugs in the film have an endless supply of flirtatious, witty and sarcastic comebacks.
Roads to Relief
Still Sam / Sweden / 2024 / 8:34 min
Roads to Relief is a journey with the ambition to find the feeling relief. Through confusion and pain, but also care, rest and euphoria. The film is made out of around 5000 still images from the bigger project Stories of relief, collaborative portraits communicating gender euphoria.
Shapeshifter X
Raymonde Gaunoux / Sweden/ 2026 / 36:48 min
SHAPESHIFTER X is a hybrid music video documentary exploring transgender embodiment, narrative and voice through sound and image. Structured around nine musical chapters interwoven with interviews with transgender artists and advocates, the film aims to amplify transness and nuture transgender community within within artistic fields. Using archival footage from different stages of the filmmaker’s life alongside newly created material, the work connects past and present selves through sonic, poetic and visual collage, depicting emotional states of struggle, healing, and becoming through a transgender gaze.
Inspired by Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto and transgender interpretations of mermaid and seahorse analogy, the film aims to highlight the empowering nature of shapeshifting transgender bodies. The material for the music and film was created in collaboration with 28 artists and transgender advocates. 21 of these collaborators identify as transgender or non-binary.