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September Events...

  • 29 Queer Film Festival
  • Calgary International Film Festival
  • Cinema Diverse!
  • Cinema Queer International Film Festival
  • CINEVERSATIL
  • D'un bord à l'autre
  • Exposures: Montréal Trans Film Festival
  • F.A.Q. - Feminist and Queer International Film Festival
  • Fantastic Fest
  • festheart
  • Festival MIX MILANO di Cinema Gaylesbico e Queer Culture
  • Fresno Reel Pride Film Festival
  • Fringe! The London Gay Film Fest
  • Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
  • I+N Festival Courts Queer Short Film Fest
  • Kreives: Vilnius LGBT* Festival
  • Les Mains Gauches
  • LGBT Toronto Film Festival
  • Long Beach Q Film Festival
  • MICGenero
  • Mirror Mountain Film Festival
  • Oslo/Fusion Filmfest
  • Out on Film
  • Outfest Peru
  • OUTnorthLa Film Festival
  • Premio Sebastiane
  • PriFest
  • Queer City Cinema
  • Queer Film Festival Utrecht
  • Queer Film Festival: Germany
  • Queer Lion
  • Queer Lisboa
  • Queer Wave
  • QueerX
  • Reel Pride Winnipeg
  • Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
  • San Sebastián International Film Festival
  • Some Prefer Cake
  • Toronto International Film Festival
  • Twisted Arts Film Festival
  • Vancouver Queer Film Festival
  • Venice Film Festival
  • Vinokino Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
  • Virginia Queer Film Festival
  • Vues d'en Face - Grenoble
Merlinka International Queer Film Festival

Merlinka International Queer Film Festival

Thursday, 11 December 2025 until Sunday, 14 December 2025

International queer film festival Merlinka is organized every year from 2009 in Belgrade Serbia. For seven days we screen short, documentary and featured LGBT-themed films.

Only gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, transsexual-themed films.


Awards & Prizes

Dorothy's slipper award for the best short queer film:

2024 - Buffer Zone by Savvas Stavrou
2023 - Will You Look At Me by Shuli Huang
2022 - The Hunt by Sholeh Zahraei, Kamil Saldun
2021 - Path of a ghost by Namo Safideen
2020 - Fabiu by Stefan Langthaler
2019 - Dante vs. Mohammed Ali by Marc Wagenaar
2018 - Whole by Slava Doytcheva
2017 - The Fish Curry by Abhishek Verma
2016 - Dove by Konstantinos Chaliasas
2015 - 09:55-11:05, Ingrid Ekman, Bergsgatan 4B by Cristine Berglund, Sophie Vukovic
2014 - I call it love, directed by Elsy Hajjar; Through The Mirror, by Breech Asher Harani
2013 - Camionero by Sebastián Miló
2012 - I’ve Only Just Begun by E.
2011 - Frischluft Therapie by Christoph Scheermann
2010 - Tools 4 Fools by Kate A. Brandt