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18 March – 29 March 2026

A chance to check out the best new LGBTQIA+ cinema from around the world.

The festival runs from 18 to 29 March.

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  • I Am Going To Miss You
    Review preview for I Am Going To Miss You

    Ribeiro finds something beautiful in fragility and rawness.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    When a transgender couple move in together, differences quickly surface. One seeks stability while the other seeks something more.
  • Montreal, My Beautiful
    Review preview for Montreal, My Beautiful

    Desire does not arrive here as a clean break from domestic life. It appears as a tremor inside it.

    Edin Custo · 3.5 out of 5
    Feng Xia lives a life of dutiful servitude to her husband, children and community of Chinese ex-pats. When she finally decides to put herself first, and explore the sexuality that she has long concealed, she meets the free-spirited Camille.
  • Body Of Our Own
    Review preview for Body Of Our Own

    Filmed over seven years and edited down to just 25 minutes, Body Of Our own is observational in style but full of condensed meaning.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A documentary following three hijra women though a series of transitional life experiences.
  • What Will I Become?
    Review preview for What Will I Become?

    It does not explain trans pain from the outside. It sits with it, listens to it, and tries to make room for it without exploiting it.

    Edin Custo · 4.5 out of 5
    Kyler Prescott and Blake Brockington were just two high-profile examples of approximately 50% of trans boys in the US who did not survive a suicide attempt. This film highlights the importance of combating prejudice and prioritising prevention among trans youth.
  • Out Laws
    Review preview for Out Laws

    Does an important job in putting these pieces together and in documenting their meaning at this point in history.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A documentary following one gay Namibian man's battle to stand up for the rights of same-sex couples.
  • Lunar Sway
    Review preview for Lunar Sway

    The kind of film that seems to drift rather than move in straight lines, guided by intuition, memory and the pull of recurring images.

    Edin Custo · 3.5 out of 5
    In this offbeat comedy, a bi guy in a desert town receives a surprise visit from his con-artist birth mother, with chaos ensuing.
  • Hunky Jesus
    Review preview for Hunky Jesus

    Through archival material and present-day interviews, Kroot traces how the Sisters became a crucial presence in San Francisco, particularly during the AIDS epidemic, when joy, care, protest, and mutual aid were matters of survival rather than branding.

    Edin Custo · 3.5 out of 5
    The story of the wildly popular, annual Easter Sunday tradition in San Francisco known as Hunky Jesus.
  • Jaripeo
    Review preview for Jaripeo

    The documentary is attentive to contradiction without flattening its subjects into symbols.

    Edin Custo · 3.5 out of 5
    A journey to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.
  • Barbara Forever
    Review preview for Barbara Forever

    What emerges over the course of O’Connor’s feature is not a saintly monument but a vibrant, difficult, funny, and unsentimental person.

    Edin Custo · 4 out of 5
    An archive-driven exploration of the life, work, and legacy of iconic, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
  • Pillion
    Review preview for Pillion

    The constant contrast is the trick, which later extends to the emotional stakes.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A man is taken on as a motorbike club's leader's submissive but begins to question that role.

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