South Australian animated comedy film Lesbian Space Princess has been selected to premiere at the prestigious 2025 Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival).
Lesbian Space Princess recently screened at Adelaide Film Festival and is the debut feature work of writers/directors Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese and producer Tom Phillips of We Made a Thing Studios.
Described as a ‘queer as f*ck’ sci-fi comedy, Lesbian Space Princess follows Princess Saira as she is thrust out of her sheltered life and into a galactic quest to save her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from the ‘Straight White Maliens’.
“We are over the moon that Lesbian Space Princess is heading to Berlinale!” Hobbs, Varghese and Phillips said.
“We are extremely grateful to the Film Lab: New Voices initiative—this film would not exist without the South Australian Film Corporation and the support of Adelaide Film Festival and Screen Australia.
“Our small, amazing local team and cast poured so much love and hard work into this project. Having it shown on an international stage at a festival we could only have dreamed of being part of is truly incredible.”
So far, Lesbian Space Princess is the only Australian feature film to be confirmed for Berlinale in 2025 – one of the ‘big five’ annual international film festivals alongside Venice, Cannes, TIFF and Sundance.
It has been selected for Berlinale’s Panorama section, a program strand focused on ‘daring, unconventional and wild’ international cinema. It will thus be eligible for the Panorama Audience Award for most popular feature film, judged by the festival’s largest audience jury, as well as the Berlinale Teddy Award for LGTBQIA+ film.
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