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International Queer & Migrant Film Festival
Thursday, 30 April 2026 until Sunday, 03 May 2026
International Queer & Migrant Film festival is a film festival for queer & migrant related films as well as a multi-disciplinary community space with art exhibitions, literature and theater.
Each year IQMF screens over 30 features, shorts and documentaries from around the world. With an annual audience of 3,000 IQMF is steadily growing. The festival centers around International Human Rights Day and a Human Rights Award is dedicated to a queer filmmaker, artist or activist on this day.
IQMF Best Feature Award
IQMF Best Short Film Award
2026 films...
10s across borders
May 3 | 13:00
99 minutes
If the world doesn’t accept you and your kind, trailblaze a world that does. Inspired by the Black and Latinx underground Ballroom culture of New York, Sun, Teddy, and Xyza
Viva la Prostitucion! – curated by Schmutz Cinema
May 2 | 21:15
80 minutes
Schmutz Cinema invites you to a program where erotic imagination meets cinematic invention – playful, queer, and joyfully open-minded. For this year’s International Queer & Migrant Film Festival, we take
Passion according to GHB
May 2 | 19:30
82 minutes
This magical realistic queer tale centers on experiences of hookups, group encounters and the borders between literature and reality. In this experimental film, Matias converses with literary character G.H. –
IQMF x Las Americas Festival: Eu Vou Ter Saudades de Você (I Am Going to Miss You)
May 2 | 15:00
87 minutes
A T4T couple move in together and must confront their differences in this indie romantic drama, featuring an entirely trans cast. About Las Americas Film Festival The Las Américas
Where Comes Mulan 木兰何处 – Yarn Sisters Feature
May 2 | 21:00
61 minutes
Along with a friend, the Eindhoven-based artist Qiaochu Guo, Rotterdam-based artist Tianyi Zheng reclaims Mulan as a queer figure torn between martial existence and post-war domesticity, reflecting the heteronormative pressures
Chinatown Cha-Cha 女人世界 – Curated by The Yarn Sisters
May 2 | 19:00
85 minutes
The 92-year-old previous nightclub dancer Coby Yee decides to get back on stage again after joining the senior dance troupe Grant Avenue Follies. Together they go on a tour for
Shorts: Wavin on the Road – Curated by The Yarn Sisters
May 2 | 17:00
104 minutes
Elegy for the Lost Duration: 29 min Director: William Hong-xiao Language:Chinese, English Subtitles: English Country: UK Year: 2025 Through a kaleidoscopic collection of archives, found footage, and even AI-generated images,
Elegy for the Lost
Duration: 29 min
Director: William Hong-xiao
Language:Chinese, English
Subtitles: English
Country: UK
Year: 2025
Through a kaleidoscopic collection of archives, found footage, and even AI-generated images, a young woman who has left China recalls her memories and the connections she had in her native country. Her intimate and nostalgic voice-over becomes the backdrop for queer struggles, where an underground theatre troupe, the excitement of clandestine festivals, repression, and social pressure to live in silence intersect. Between personal memory and collective history, the film juxtaposes love, resistance, and exile.
Wild Mei 野红梅
Duration: 14 min
Director: Ye Fang
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Subtitles: English
Country: China
Year: 2025
Synopsis:
Mei is a post-00s transgender woman who loves revolutionary songs and whip dancing. She sees herself as an ancient witch, who because of her “identity” has to give up her mainstream life to work on the streets as a fortune-teller. But at the same time, because of her “identity”, she has gained something different, something more important.
Asian Bitches Speak 亚裔婊贝正发声
Duration: 16 min
Director: Janet Che Ma
Language: English, Mandarin Chinese
Subtitles: English
Country: USA
Year: 2024
Synopsis:
After generations of cultural silence, years of pandemic anxiety, and one anti-Asian hate crime, queer filmmaker Janet takes her retired single mom Diana on a mental health discovery road trip. Along the way, they lay bare their long-buried family history, and together start the journey of healing.
Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way 别无它法
Duration: 21 min
Director: Hao Zhou
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Country: USA
Year: 2024
Synopsis:
Having built a colorful queer life in an American prairie town, an aspiring costume designer visits their island homeland of Guam to make costumes for a children’s theatre and reconnect with distanced parents.
Two Travelling Aunties
Duration: 22 min
Director: Christine Seow
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Country: Singapore and UK
Year: 2025
Synopsis:
Two spirited Singaporean seniors in their late fifties trade years of conventional living for a lifetime of adventure as they hit the open road in a van, discovering newfound freedom, unexpected romance, and the joy of living life on their own terms.
Love Bound – Curated by The Yarn Sisters
May 2 | 15:00
80 minutes
LGBTQ+ activist Qiuyan Chen became an unexpected celebrity due to her courageous legal battle against homophobic university textbooks in the 2010s. However, this newfound fame came at a price: she
Shorts: Oh Dream Maker – Curated by the Yarn Sisters
May 2 | 13:00
84 minutes
The Parisian in Bali Village 巴黎人在八里庄 Duration: 15 min Director: Bingxin Cen Language: Chinese Subtitles: English Country: China Year: 2023 Synopsis Li Simiao, a girl who lives in Bali Village,
The Parisian in Bali Village 巴黎人在八里庄
Duration: 15 min
Director: Bingxin Cen
Language: Chinese
Subtitles: English
Country: China
Year: 2023
Synopsis
Li Simiao, a girl who lives in Bali Village, Chengdu, China, has never traveled abroad. But she is convinced that she is a true Parisian at heart. And many others like her share the sense of “hometown disorder”…
Where Should We Go Now 此刻去哪都在此刻
Duration: 25 min
Director: Linkun Li
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Subtitles: English
Country: China
Year: 2025
Synopsis:
Between her and her, the unresolved questions send them on a quest for solutions. But they have no idea where they are going. One keeps asking; the other never has an answer. Is it here, or over there? Just like on the path of life, you can never know where you will be the next moment. And they have each other to face the fear and anxiety that comes with the unknown. They will find the answer in the end – this journey, this life, perhaps it is all just a dream. This dream only takes place in one instant – this moment.
Belonging and Difference 另刂
Duration: 24 min
Director: Cici Wu and Yuan Yuan
Language: Chinese, Cantonese, English
Subtitles: English
Country: China
Year: 2023
Synopsis:
The work begins with footage from East Broadway Mall in New York’s Chinatown during the pandemic, where workers describe both their expectations regarding working conditions and the actual circumstances in a neighborhood that is gradually becoming more vacant and transforming daily. It then moves to footage from Beijing, captured around the time of the White Paper Protest – both before and after – including scenes of quarantine, family life, memorial sites of June 4th, and an underground queer party, ending with footage from Hong Kong: the cross-harbor tunnel, which references the siege of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a wound that still remains open.
Seasons Along Rivers 月亮走，我也走
Duration: 20 min
Director: Lesley Le Luo
Language:English, Mandarin Chinese
Subtitles: English
Country: Australia
Year: 2025
Synopsis:
Inspired by Virginia Woolf, Seasons Along Rivers explores queer immigrants’ resilience and versatility through the lens of a love story in rural landscapes of Mildura, Victoria.
Parque de Diversões – Curated by Schmutz Cinema
May 1 | 21:!5
75 minutes
Step into a surreal amusement park of queer cruising fantasies with Parque de Diversões. Directed by Ricardo Alves Jr., this visually lush film transports viewers into an electrifying, Brazilian carnival
Dreams and Nightmares
May 1 & 3 | 18:50 & 15:00
128 minutes
After losing her job, Z embarks on a trip across the American Midwest. Together with her two closest friends, she is searching for another friend of theirs who has seemingly
IQMF Short Film Program
May 1 | 17:00
90 minutes
As always we kick off the Weekender with a selection of IQMF short film. Expect a well crafted program of the newest queer film in which migrant topics are being