Films for lesbians and people who love them

Featuring captivating documentaries, riveting shorts, steamy romances and even a patriarchy revenge film, here are just some of the electrifying films featuring lesbians at Queer Screen’s 30th Mardi Gras Film Festival.

Finding Her Beat

Australian Premiere

Tue, Feb 21, 7:00pm
Event Cinemas, George St
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Sun, Mar 12, 4:00pm
Mount Vic Flicks
+ On Demand

A group of women and non-binary drummers gather to create a historic and ground-breaking Taiko performance, an art-form usually dominated by men.

Breaking the Ice

Sydney Premiere

Thu, Feb 23, 8:30pm
Event Cinemas, George St
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Sun, Feb 26, 5:00pm
Dendy Cinemas Newtown

Opposites attract when an icy 20-something hockey player has instant chemistry with her fiery new teammate, in this sincere romantic drama.

The Five Devils

Australian Premiere

Wed, Feb 22, 6:30pm
Hayden Orpheum Cremorne
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Fri, Feb 24, 8:30pm
Event Cinemas, George St
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Wed, Mar 1, 1:30pm
Event Cinemas, George St

Love, mystery and time travel collide in this compelling drama about a lonely girl with a special gift, starring a mesmerising Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue is the Warmest Colour).

Cinema Extraordinaire, Bergen International Film Festival 2022

You Can Live Forever

Sydney Premiere

Fri, Feb 24, 6:30pm
Event Cinemas, George St
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Wed, Mar 1, 8:30pm
Ritz Cinemas, Randwick
+ On Demand

Jaime is plunged into the unfamiliar world of Jehovah’s Witnesses where she encounters Marike – devout, faithful, captivating. Before long, the two young women form an intimate and vulnerable connection.

Compulsus

Fri, Feb 24, 6:40pm
Ritz Cinemas, Randwick
+ On Demand

Upending the power dynamic between men and the rest of society, this provocative feminist revenge fantasy pulls no punches against the patriarchy!

This Place

Australian Premiere

Sat, Feb 25, 4:15pm
Dendy Cinemas Newtown

Fates collide in a Toronto laundromat when a chance encounter sees love blossom between a young Tamil woman and a Mohawk-Iranian woman.

So Damn Easy Going

Tue, Feb 28, 8:30pm
Ritz Cinemas, Randwick

This darkly comedic film impressively balances the highs and lows of a burgeoning high school sapphic romance amidst the mounting anxieties of an adolescence magnified by neurodiversity.

Best First Feature, Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival 2022

Lesbian Shorts

Wed, Mar 1, 6:20pm
Ritz Cinemas, Randwick

From the dramatic to amusing, these Lesbian Shorts will have you covered. From Africa, Europe to throughout the USA, this diverse collection of shorts brings together the experiences of lesbians from across the globe.

Closing Night Gala: The Venus Effect (+ After party!)

Thu Mar 2 7:00 pm
Event Cinemas, George St, Sydney
Selling fast! 🔥

Come send off MGFF23 with a bang at our Closing Night screening of The Venus Effect! The screening will be followed by an after party in Gold Class, so you enjoy some drinks, canapés and celebrate the Festival in style! Plus, you never know what queer celebs you’ll see on the pink carpet.

The Venus Effect is a feel good, award-winning Danish rom-com follows Liv, a young woman with a sweet but unexciting boyfriend, whose world is rocked by the arrival of a pink-haired, vulva dress-wearing, Sapphic goddess.