London Lesbian Film Festival

2024 films...

Summer Night’s Fantasy

Director, Guby Moon

It’s a summer night and it’s very hot. Mila is lying in bed and can’t sleep. Then her hands slide down all over her body as her mind fantasizes taking her on a cosmic journey to the stars and beyond. This is a poetic story about a hot summer night’s fantasy.

Spain 2022 6 min

Chuck Chuck Baby

Director, Janis Pugh

A film of love and loss set amongst the falling feathers of a chicken factory. Featuring the inspiring music of Neil Diamond, Janis Ian, Minnie Riperton and others.

UK 2023 101 min

Come Correct

Director, Molly Coffee

Recently divorced from her husband, a woman with an unhealthy relationship with perfection explores her newfound queerness by hiring a female sex worker to teach her how to eat fruit.

USA 2022 14 min

Summer with Maria

Director, Joanna Ślesicka

Emily, after a sudden breakup with her boyfriend, cannot find herself in a new reality. Without much consideration she sets off alone for the holiday stay they planned together. On the spot she meets Maria — the owner of the holiday cottages. At first, Emily gets irritated by Maria’s straightforward manner. With time, aversion turns into fascination. Thanks to Maria, Emily will never forget that summer.

Poland/Spain 2022 17 min

Hex the Patriarchy

Director, Anne Brashier

Sick of being bullied by their classmates, two queer high schoolers Bex and Wren strike back like anyone else would: with witchcraft. The more timid Wren comes into her power with her best friend by her side, as they conjure their bullies’ worst nightmares, only to unleash something far more potent and wondrous.

USA 2023 6 min

Dorothy Arzner, Pioneer, Queer, Feminist

Director, Clara and Julia Kuperberg

Dorothy Arzner was Hollywood’s most powerful director, though History has forgotten her.
She began working in the film industry at 19 as a “cutter” before the advent of editors, and gradually worked her way up through the studio system. Determined and ambitious, she was accepted as a director at Paramount, as the first woman to direct a talking picture for the star Clara Bow. A true pioneer of the cinema, she was the only woman director at a major Hollywood studio in the 1930s and 1940s, openly lesbian, dressed like a man, making movies “avant-gardiste” about women condition. She was a mentor for Francis Ford Coppola, who considers her as one of the most important woman directors of Hollywood.

France 2023 53 min

Mal de Amores

Director, Fiorella Vescovi

When a hopeless romantic finds out her ex-girlfriend is newly engaged, she goes to her friends expecting to be coddled, but reality sets in when they call her out for prioritizing her past over their friendship.

USA 2022 15 min

Not Quite That

Director, Ali Grant

Might a genetic mutation be the very thing that allows this nice Jewish butch lesbian to be fully seen at last? Meet Sarah, 57. Lesbian? For sure. Jewish? Yes and no. Mother? In all but one sense. Trans? No, just often mistaken as such. Breast cancer survivor? Well, that’s the plan, the survival bit, but without the cancer or the breasts.

Canada 2022 47 min

Janelle Niles: Inconvenient

Director, Cass Gardiner & Kelly Zemnickis

Janelle embraces her biracial experience and queer identity, using stand-up to usher in a new era of inclusive, Canadian comedy.

Canada 2023 9 min

Old Lesbians

Director, Meghan McDonough

For the last quarter century, Houston native Arden Eversmeyer journeyed across the country to record hundreds of oral herstories with a mostly invisible population that is rapidly disappearing. Old Lesbians honors Arden’s legacy by animating the resilient, joyful voices she preserved in the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project, from first crush to first love, from loss to connection.

USA 2023 29 min

Longing

Director, Courteney Tan

On the night before her flight home, a Malaysian woman with a secret finds herself on an impromptu date with another woman.

UK 2023 12 min

There are Things to Do

Director, Mike Syers

Urvashi Vaid, an outspoken immigrant, lesbian and woman of color was an LGBTQ+ superhero & helped shape the modern day gay rights movement. Her life in Provincetown with partner Kate Clinton, decades of work & vision serves as a roadmap for generations facing anti-LGBTQ+ backlash. The film reminds us that the best place to build community & work towards equality starts at home.

USA 2023 18 min

Betty and Jean

Director, Elinor Randle

80-year-old Betty waits for her true love, Jean. She remembers their painful break-up in 1960’s Liverpool when she wasn’t brave enough to be with a woman. Will their love be rekindled?

UK 2003 8 min

Neo Nahda

Director, May Ziadé

Mona, a young woman in London, finds archived photographs of Arab women cross-dressing in the 1920s. Somewhere between her fantasies and reality, she starts a feverish journey of uncovering lost histories and her own identity.

UK 2023 12 min

F**ked

Director, Sara Harrak

A married lesbian couple, in an open relationship, try to navigate their curiosity and newfound freedom.

UK 2023 6 min

Dealing

Director, Kendall Alex Payne

Dealing is a stoner comedy about Kai, a depressed lesbian, who picks up a part-time gig delivering weed for the day and through the power of human connection learns to love life again.

USA 2023 12 min

Sweet Forty

Director, Annlin Chao

Tensions rise at Anita’s 40th birthday party when her teen daughter finds out she’s gay before everyone else. Sweet Forty is a drama-comedy short film based on a true story, addressing the family relationships and an incredible journey of a 39-years-old closeted gay woman, in the lead-up to her 40th birthday. Written and directed by Annlin Chao.

UK 2023 15 min

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