Browse Films
Friday Feb 13
Gay Shorts
Featuring Zane Phillips (Fire Island) as the son of a diva muppet, these short films explore gay life in all its facets, from the ridiculous to the heartfelt.
Saturday Feb 14
Second Nature
Narrated by Elliot Page, this engaging documentary is about the scientists studying the diversity of gender and sexuality in the animal world.
Monday Feb 16
Indigenous Queer Shorts
Centring the lives of Indigenous queer people from across the globe, these films celebrate LGBTIQ+ Aboriginal, Māori, Samoan and First Nations voices.
Tuesday Feb 17
QueerDOC Shorts
Gay male nuns, lesbian custody battles, trans surfers and the bond between a sperm donor and his child are the subjects of just some of these documentaries.
Queer Comedy Shorts
This selection of shorts will make you laugh, finding humour in sibling relationships, first crushes, mean gays and even racial profiling. Featuring Cathy Moriarty.
Thursday Feb 19
I Was Born This Way
Lady Gaga and Billy Porter feature in this joyful documentary celebrating the life of Carl Bean, singer of gay anthem “I Was Born This Way”.
QueerScream Shorts
From the weird and wonderful, to the surreal and strange, through to the genuinely frightening, this eclectic package of queer genre films is a real scream.
Friday Feb 20
Bi+ Shorts
Bi, pan, fluid, queer – those attracted to more than one gender take centre stage in this inclusive package about finding acceptance at any age.
Saturday Feb 21
Truth or Dare
An evocative experimental documentary exploring queer sexuality, consent and belonging within Berlin’s sex-positive community.
Sunday Feb 22
Queer Comedy Shorts
This selection of shorts will make you laugh, finding humour in sibling relationships, first crushes, mean gays and even racial profiling. Featuring Cathy Moriarty.
Afternoon Delight: I Was Born This Way
A movie matinee, afternoon tea and intergenerational social gathering celebrating our older LGBTIQ+ community (plus friends and allies).
If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart into Your Mouth and Smile
This Teddy Jury Prize winner brilliantly captures those nascent years when someone first begins to question and explore their own identity.
Sapphic Shorts
From early sexual awakenings to late-in-life discoveries and everything in between, this collection of sapphic films features T’Nia Miller and Dominique Provost-Chalkley.
Rains Over Babel
A delirious, queer reframing of Dante’s Inferno as a neon-drenched tropical fantasy at the border between life and death, charged with punk spirit and camp spectacle.
Monday Feb 23
My Queer Career: Australian Shorts
Don’t miss these eight films competing in My Queer Career, Australia’s richest LGBTIQ+ short film prize, with over $16K worth of prizes.
Trans & Gender Diverse Shorts
Spotlighting T4T romances, an attempted egg cracking and a luxury brand heist, these films showcase the varied lives of trans and gender diverse people.
Tuesday Feb 24
A Useful Ghost
A Grand Prix winner at Cannes Critics’ Week, Thai superstar Davika Hoorne stars in this absurd, genre-defying comedy about a haunted vacuum.
Between Dreams and Hope
Visionary filmmaker Farnoosh Samadi drew on the Iranian LGBTIQ+ community’s real experiences to craft this tense yet poignant thriller.
Queer Comedy Shorts
This selection of shorts will make you laugh, finding humour in sibling relationships, first crushes, mean gays and even racial profiling. Featuring Cathy Moriarty.
Women Loving Women Shorts
These films, all about women in love, play out against the backdrop of women’s soccer, a holiday caravan park, a 1990s Melbourne sharehouse and the rodeo.