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Kreives: Vilnius LGBT* Festival
Friday, 12 September 2025 until Monday, 15 September 2025
Vilnius queer festival "Kreivės" is a cultural and social initiative which started in 2014. It is the first annual LGBT* festival in Lithuania and the Baltics. Building on earlier and cooperating with concurrent queer initiatives, we aspire to be a unique space for film screenings, events and community building.
Our vision is to build a community which acknowledges and passionately supports variety in LGBT* expressions and viewpoints. We are committed to bringing stories that spring from diverse lives and transform our vision of who we are and who we can be.
Held in an atmospheric little cinema in central Vilnius and venues across the town, "Kreivės" events attract several thousand visitors each year. Entrance to the festival's film screenings and events is donation-based.
Entries selected for the competitive category will compete for the Jury Award for Best Short Film and Best Feature. The Best Short Film winner will receive a cash prize of €200 (two hundred euros).
All films screened at "Kreivės" will be eligible for the Audience Choice Award which does not include a cash prize.
The Passion according to Karim
La Passion selon Karim
2024 / France / comedy
Director: Axel Würsten
Cast: Axel Würsten, Arman Saibi, Pierre Gommé
French, with Lithuanian and English subtitles, 24 min
A Scout patrol stays in a remote village in the Drôme region to perform the Crucifixion of Jesus. Nothing can divert 17-year-old Karim, the Scout who has in charge the role of Christ, from his obsessive goal: to find the ecstasy to interpret the martyrdom on the cross.
Kasey Cartoon
2024 / USA / animated comedy
Director: Veronica Kedar
Cast: Veronica Kedar, Annael Jonas
English, with Lithuanian subtitles, 10 min
Since diversity is dead in tv and movies, Veronica the animator decides to kill off Kasey, one of her diverse cartoons. But Kasey isn’t your typical cartoon… and she’s definitely not going anywhere without a fight.
Water Sports
2024 / Philippines / experimental
Director: Whammy Alcazaren
Cast: Elijah Canlas, John Renz Javier, Ricky Davao
Tagalog, with Lithuanian and English subtitles, 20 min
Jelson and Ipe, students deep in love, undergo trials of the mind and body as they prepare themselves to survive a world devastated by climate change.
Gender Reveal
2024 / Canada / comedy
Director: Mo Matton
Cast: Ayo Tsalithaba, Kě Xīn Li, Lyraël Dauphin
English and French, with Lithuanian and English subtitles, 13 min
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.
Die Bully Die
2024 / Australia / comedy
Director: Nathan Lacey, Nick Lacey
Cast: Matthew Backer, Drew Weston, Ben Gerrard
English, with Lithuanian subtitles, 16 min
Seventeen years after high-school, Max catches up with his former bully Adam in a fancy restaurant, where Max’s grudge against Adam begins to manifest in horrific ways.
Invincible Summer
Un invincible été
2024 / Belgium / drama
Director: Arnaud Dufeys
Cast: Charles Lebrun, Vadiel Gonzalez, Victor Meurice
French, with Lithuanian and English subtitles, 19 min
One hot summer evening. Alone at home, by the pool and bored to death, 16-year-old Clément is killing boredom by swiping guys’ profiles on a dating app. Determined to lose his virginity, he lies about his age on his date with Naël, a young man 8 years his senior.
Bingo
2024 / France / drama
Director: Fanny Ruwet
Cast: Mara Taquin, Jéromine Chasseriaud, Montaine Fregeai
French, with Lithuanian and English subtitles, 20 min
Fanny is a bookseller by day and a soft-hearted person the rest of the time. She is in love with her friend Louise, and to repress the sadness of this impossible love, she has a series of one-night stands with uninteresting men. One evening, at a literary gathering she’s hosting, she invites Louise to come along. Fanny may be about to have a bingo.
Una Notte
2024 / Italy / drama
Director: Alessio Vasarin
Cast: Lorenzo Cingolani, Alessia Perillo, Artemisia Meinero
Italian, with Lithuanian and English subtitles, 18 min
Late spring, downtown Bologna, it is almost 3 am. Giulio is waiting for Lara outside the club where she works. They are friends with benefits, but one of them might like something more. Giulio needs to talk to her about something that has happened.
Mother is a Natural Sinner
Madar Gonahkare Tabiist
2024 / Germany / experimental
Director: Hoda TaheriM, Boris Hadžija
Cast: Hadi Khanjanpour, Jahandokht Safarian, Hoda Taheri
Farsi and German, with Lithuanian and English subtitles, 15 min
Hoda, an Iranian refugee woman, lives in exile in Germany with her boyfriend, Hadi. Due to an unexpected pregnancy, Hoda starts to examine common beliefs regarding gender roles in a relationship and openly challenges the current patriarchal social norms surrounding feminine bodies and motherhood.
Chico
2024 / France / drama
Director: Théo Abadie
Cast: Mallo Breysse, Vadiel Gonzalez, Léo Moreau, Guillaume Willeme
French, with Lithuanian and English subtitles, 23 min
Jojo, a clumsy and bumbling young gay squatter, sets out to repair a washing machine in order to satisfy Lucien, whom he desires. He roams Brussels in a frantic quest, ready to take any risk to achieve his goals.
Proximity. Shorts
Carpobrotus
2024 / France / drama
Director: Simon Frenay
Cast: Juliette Savary, Erwan Kepoa Falé, Simon Frenay
French, with Lithuanian and English subtitles, 22 min
It’s summertime, and three friends – Maxime, Yann and Laura – are spending a few days on a wild Mediterranean island. Maxime loves Yann passionately, but doesn’t know if his feelings are shared. It’s in this quest for love that Maxime immerses himself, at the risk of losing himself, between dream and desire.
The Mud under My Window
Sous ma fenêtre, la boue
2025 / Belgium / animated drama
Director: Violette Delvoye
French, with Lithuanian and English subtitles, 13 min
One of Emma’s mothers is too busy, the other one is too far away: a presence she rejects, an absence she sublimates. Out of a trivial tension, an intimate and unsettling face-to-face confrontation suddenly arises.
À Poings et À Cœurs
2024 / France / documentary
Director: Augustine Caille
French, with Lithuanian and English subtitles, 8 min
Coming out swinging, a group of trans women forge deep bonds at a dedicated boxing club.
A Bird Hit My Window and Now I’m a Lesbian
2024 / USA / animated drama
Director: Carmela Murphy, AJ Dubler
Cast: Jordan Gantos, Cecile Lopez, Timmothy Sullivan
English, with Lithuanian subtitles, 8 min
After a mysterious girl shows up at Gray’s doorstep holding the corpse of a bird that had just cracked her window, an impromptu bird funeral changes the way Gray views herself and her lesbian identity.
Lost Hearts
Coeurs Perdus
2024 / France / drama
Director: Frédéric Lavigne
Cast: Guillaume Soubeyran, Isaak Dessaux
French, with Lithuanian and English subtitles, 30 min
Paris, 1992. Julien, a science thesis student, learns of the death of Christophe, a young suburban hairdresser he had met a few months earlier. He sets off on a journey to retrace their history and try to understand and forgive.
Tapage
2024 / France / drama
Director: Joséphine Madinier
Cast: Taddeo Kufus, Inti Franc-Regis
French, with Lithuanian and English subtitles, 25 min
Nemo, 20, has just found out that he will soon be deaf. At the hospital, he catches the mischievous Lou stealing pharmaceuticals. Determined to escape this new reality that he can’t process, he decides to follow Lou through the night.
Dragfox
2024 / Switzerland, UK / animated fantasy drama
Director: Lisa Ott
Cast: Ian McKellen, Aidan Gale, Owen Divina De Campo Farrow
English, with Lithuanian subtitles, 8 min
Sam’s search for identity gets interrupted by a mysterious neighbourhood fox. Together they embark on a magical journey to the attic to discover the surprising things they might have in common, and how to celebrate the ways in which they differ.
The Story
Istoriya
2025 / Ukraine / drama
Director: Vadim Mochalov
Cast: Oleksandr Yakobchuk, Ilia Pivtorak, Vladyslav Blintsov, Kostyantyn Shahman
Ukrainian, with Lithuanian and English subtitles, 30 min
Working on his screenplay about two guys admitting their feelings for each other, a film directing major from Kyiv Lyonya asks his classmate Andriy, with whom he’s secretly in love, to help with the script editing.
Saigon Kiss
2024 / Viet Nam / drama
Director: Hong Anh Nguyen
Cast: Vu Truc Nhu Nguyen, Thuong Le
Vietnamese, with Lithuanian and English subtitles, 22 min
Mo roams through the rush hour traffic to avoid an unwanted phone call. When she meets Vicky by the side of the street with her broken motorbike, a visceral chance encounter unfolds between the two young queer women on the loud streets of Saigon.