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All the best queer films at this year’s Adelaide Film Festival
The 2022 Adelaide Film Festival will see more queer content than ever gracing our screens. Adelaide Film Festival chief executive and creative director Mat Kesting said importantly, the queer films featured in this year’s festival did not have a designated “LGBT program”. “We haven’t created a ‘queer section’, these films are woven throughout the program,” …
Queensland queer short ‘Lumber’ to make local premiere at BIFF
Lumber is an LGBTQIA+ short drama, written, directed and produced by Harry Sabulis and produced by Jaden Bowen, following a lonely lumberjack in rural Queensland who goes to a gay bar for the first time to find love. Filmed in late 2021, the independent short had its World Premiere in Atlanta, Georgia as a part …
Four great Mardi Gras Film Festival picks you can watch at home
Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Film Festival, starting this week, is allowing audiences across Australia to create their own festival experience with on-demand streaming options. This year’s festival features over 90 films to choose from, including a variety of shorts, documentaries, and narratives both heartbreaking and humorous. Cinema sessions and streaming options are on offer during …
Lesbian romance opens Queer Screen Film Fest 2019
Queer romance films from France, Spain and New Zealand are on the lineup for this year’s Queer Screen Film Fest in Sydney. The lineup features 29 films from twelve countries, focusing on romantic films under the theme ‘Light Your Fire’. “With our theme we are asking the audience to engage their hearts and minds and …
The queer picks at 2019 Spanish Film Festival
Spanish lesbian romance Carmen and Lola is one of the queer highlights at the upcoming Spanish Film Festival, returning to Brisbane’s Palace Cinemas next week. This year’s event is the 22nd annual Spanish Film Festival. It features a curated program of 32 films from Spain and all around Latin America. Carmen and Lola Bilbao-born writer-director …
Five queer picks at Brisbane’s Alliance Française French Film Festival 2019
The Alliance Française French Film Festival is touring Australia celebrating its 30th birthday in 2019, and is returning to Brisbane next week. The long-running festival is running from March 14 until April 14 at Palace Cinemas, with the full lineup and tickets available from the website here. Get a look at five of the queer …
Screening Of Powerful Trans Doco ‘Becoming Colleen’
Audiences can book now for a free screening of documentary Becoming Colleen as part of the 20th anniversary Brisbane Queer Film Festival (BQFF). Becoming Colleen The film follows Colleen Young, a retired police officer from northern New South Wales who, after hiding her identity from friends and family for decades, has finally been able to …
Brisbane Queer Film Festival Unveils Its 20th Anniversary Lineup
The Brisbane Queer Film Festival is this year celebrating its 20th birthday and has unveiled its 2019 program of queer feature films, documentaries and short films. This year’s theme of the long-running festival is “Reflection” to highlight the power of films to create awareness, change and acceptance not just within the mainstream society, but within the queer community …
Gay Indie Film ‘Beach Rats’ Screening In Brisbane
The folks at the Brisbane Queer Film Festival are hosting a fundraising screening of acclaimed gay indie film “Beach Rats” this Wednesday night. In the film, actor Harris Dickinson stars as 19-year-old Frankie, who spends his days playing handball, smoking weed, and cruising the beach for girls. But at night, he meets up with older …
Surprising Picks For This Year’s Russian Resurrection Film Festival
Outside of Russia, the Russian Resurrection film festival remains the largest and most respected Russian catalogue in both Australia and New Zealand. Running in Brisbane from 1st – 8th November at the Event Cinemas in the Myer Centre in Brisbane’s CBD, this year’s line-up will serve 14 select titles throughout, as well as celebrating the …