Browse Films
Friday Feb 13
Pillion
An impossibly handsome biker (Alexander Skarsgård) takes a directionless wallflower (Harry Melling) on as his submissive, in a kinky “dom-com”.
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.
Monday Feb 16
A Good Child
A tender and heartfelt comedy-drama about a glamorous drag queen caring for his mother, from Singaporean director ONG Kuo Sin (Number 1).
Amantes
An interconnected group of lesbians navigate their desires and fears in Paris, in this charming and romantic French answer to The L Word.
Tuesday Feb 17
Pillion
An impossibly handsome biker (Alexander Skarsgård) takes a directionless wallflower (Harry Melling) on as his submissive, in a kinky “dom-com”.
Thursday Feb 19
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
Perro Perro
Festival favourite Marco Berger (The Astronaut Lovers, QSFF24) returns with a gently absurd, homoerotic fable where “man’s best friend” is literally a man.
Hot Boys Shorts
From unexpected hook-ups to romantic rendezvous, things get hot and heavy in this collection of films. Featuring John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch).
Sunday Feb 22
Four Mothers
Darren Thornton’s (A Date for Mad Mary, MGFF17) warm, sharply observed comedy about the bond between mother and gay son won the Audience Award at BFI London Film Festival.
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
Departures
After a break-up, Benji reflects on his doomed relationship with macho, closeted Jake in this darkly funny, emotionally charged anti-rom-com.
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.
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.
Wednesday Feb 25
The Naked Civil Servant
Marking its 50th anniversary, John Hurt stars as Quentin Crisp, who made the bold decision to be openly gay in 1930s and ‘40s England.