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International Queer & Migrant Film Festival
Thursday, 08 May 2025 until Sunday, 11 May 2025
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
2025 films...
Edhi Alice
125 minutes
An elegant portrait of two South Korean women in transition that calmly unfolds. The first part focuses on Edhi, a modest and cheerful woman who hopes to feel good in
Hard Paint (Tinta Bruta)
118 minutes
Pedro earns a living in chat rooms. He transforms himself into NeonBoy in front of the webcam. Slowly, this young man dips his fingers into pots of coloured paint and
Norwegian Dreams
97 minutes
Robert moves from the Polish countryside to work on a fish processing factory on the coast of Norway. There he falls in love with Ivar who is openly gay and
IQMF: Short Film Program 2025 incl. Q&A
I Don’t Want to Be Just a Memory
Duration: 20’
Director: Sarnt Utamachote
Language: English, Spanish
Subtitles: English
Country: Germany
Year: 2024
Synopsis:
Berlin queer community members mourn the substance abuse-related loss of their friends by sharing memories and rituals. Resembling glow-in-the-dark fungi, they radiate light together as a network of support and care.
事過方覺 (After All)
Duration: 25’
Director: Chongyan Liu
Language: English, German
Subtitles: English
Country: France
Year: 2024
Synopsis:
A therapist at a Berlin university navigates delicate emotional terrain as she provides solace to a grieving student grappling with the suicide of a trans woman on campus.
紅包Red Envelope
Duration: 20’
Director: Tami Xu
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English
Country: Taiwan
Year: 2024
Synopsis:
A newly-wed American Andy picks up a red envelope on the ground near a Taiwanese night market. What he discovers inside the envelope is a family saga that binds two worlds.
IQMF x 100% Manusia Film Festival: Gado Gado 1 incl. Q&A
GOLDEN FRAMES IN THE CLOSET (JEMARI YANG MENARI DI ATAS LUKA-LUKA)
16 Mins | 2019 | Drama | Indonesia |Indonesian with English subtitles (Non Dialogue)
Director : Putri Sarah Amelia
A mortuary cosmetologist has to face a dilemma when she receives a job from a mother who had lost her child in an accident. A film without dialogue.
AFTER MIDNIGHT (BA’DA MALAM)
6 Mins | 2023 | Drama | Indonesia | Indonesian with English subtitles
Director : Azwa Hanan Ameera
A woman named Lara who had just returned from her job at a nightclub wanted to pray at a mosque, but was barred from entering by a young marbot named Abi.
LOLITHA
20 Mins | 2022 | Narrative | Indonesia and United States | Indonesian with English subtitles
Director : Azalia Muchransyah
Lolitha is a transwoman from Papua who is HIV-positive. She shares her perspectives on queer awakening, prostitution, activism, and philosophical analysis of her intersectional identities.
SUPERIA: INDONESIAN WOMEN’S VOICES (SUPERIA: SUARA PEREMPUAN INDONESIA)
9 min | 2023 | Documentary | Indonesia | Bahasa Indonesia with English subtitles
Director : Rummana Yamanie
Project SUPERIA (Suara Perempuan Indonesia or Voices of Indonesian Women) is a multi-discipline artistic storytelling project created to explore the diversity and complexities of Indonesian women’s experiences, through film and theatre production. SUPERIA short film, the first introduction of Project SUPERIA, features 7 women from various professions, age, ethnicity and sexuality sharing their own experiences and perspectives on bodies, motherhood, relationship, etc. All have very nuanced lives and values, yet face intersecting challenges in facing societal expectations.
SILLAGE
11 Mins | 2024 | Drama | Indonesia |Indonesian with English subtitles
Director : Richardo Fransiscoli
Rama and Adam, spend the night together remembering the sweet story of their love journey that has happened over the years. The intimate and intense conversations that took place between them made them realise the meaning of the word love as they grew older.
BASRI & SALMA IN A NEVER ENDING COMEDY (BASRI & SALMA DALAM KOMEDI YANG TERUS BERPUTAR)
15 Mins | 2023 | Drama | Indonesia | Makassarese and Indonesian with English subtitles
Director : Khozy Rizal
A husband and wife married for 5 years, own an Odong-odong at the carnival together, spending their days entertaining and taking care of other people’s children without any of their own. Between meddling relatives, self-doubt and an explosive confrontation, they uncover why they have not been blessed with a child.
Dreamers
78 minutes
A love story and escape movie set in an immigration removal centre. A woman named Isio is caught working without papers. Relocated and trapped inside Hatchworth Removal Centre, she learns
Come La Notte incl. Q&A
75 minutes
After years of separation, three Filipino siblings, all domestic workers in Italy, reunite in their older sister Lilia’s inherited villa. As the night deepens, their long-awaited reunion stirs old memories
Chinese Queer Shorts (Curated by Popo Fan) incl. panel talk
新前門大街New Beijing, New Marriage
Duration: 18’
Director: Popo Fan, David Cheng
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English
Country: China
Year: 2009
Synopsis:
On the Valentine’s Day in 2019, a gay couple and a lesbian couple chose to have their wedding photos taken on the Qianmen Street in Beijing. On this beautiful spring day in Beijing, a lot of interesting conversations was made.
成都彩虹Chengdu Rainbow
Duration: 24’
Director: Li Yaqi
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: Chinese, English
Country: China
Year: 2021
Synopsis:
Chengdu Rainbow is a nonprofit organization focused on the LGBTQ community — originally, it was known as Chengdu Milk. The film showcases the organization’s restructuring, efforts to build itself up, and subsequent decline. The main subject of the film, Matthew, is the founder of the organization and a member of the LGBTQ community. His initial motivation for founding it was to help LGBTQ individuals facing mental health challenges, but ultimately he also left due to his own mental health struggles.
Beer! Beer!
Duration: 17’
Director: Popo Fan
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Country: Germany
Year: 2019
Synopsis:
An “anti-romantic comedy” set in the early morning following a wild party in Berlin. When Tao, a Chinese guy, meets Sebastian, a local German. As they seem to get more and more intimate with each other, suddenly a mattress changes everything…
Ice Cream, Ice Queen
Duration: 17’
Director: Jeremy Chi
Language: English, Mandarin Chinese, Korean
Subtitles: English
Country: USA
Year: 2024
Synopsis:
Lost in the lonely life of New York City, a middle-aged Chinese woman wrestles with the complexities of her unexpected bond with her son’s lesbian violin teacher.
Between Goodbyes
96 minutes
When a queer Korean adoptee visits her original mother in Seoul, long-held regrets and cultural misunderstandings come to the surface alongside tenderness, humor, and tenacity.
IQMF SHORTS (5 shorts)
May 10 | 11:00
Du bist So Wunderbar (Paradise Europe)
Duration: 17’
Director: Leandro Goddinho, Paulo Menezes
Language: German, English, Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Country: Germany
Year: 2023
Synopsis:
Edu is a 20-something-year-old Brazilian gay man living and working for Amazon in the German capital, while also struggling to fit in with the local culture. He has a serious medical condition, a consequence of his presumably promiscuous lifestyle. The gay scene in Berlin is highly sex-orientated, and Edu works occasionally works at the local sauna. There are ample opportunities for him to meet as many partners as he like. But the consequences of these encounters can be destructive. To make things worse, Amazon has not paid his health insurance, leaving him in a vulnerable and indeed embarrassing situation. What a pain in the arse. Quite literally.
The Performance
Duration: 20’
Director: Claire Zhou
Language: Dutch, Mandarin Chinese
Subtitles: English
Country: Netherlands
Year: 2023
Synopsis:
Lin is preparing her solo performance for the Chinese New Year celebration at her church. When rumors start circulating about her son, she is faced with a difficult choice: will she hide or show her true self?
Flores del Otro Patio (Flowers from Another Garden)
Duration: 15’
Director: Jorge Cadena
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Country: Switzerland, Colombia
Year: 2022
Synopsis:
In northern Colombia, a group of queer activists use their extravagance to denounce the disastrous exploitation of the largest coal mine in Colombia through performative actions.
Maghreb’s Hope
Duration: 23’
Director: Bassem Ben Brahim
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Country: Tunisia
Year: 2023
Synopsis:
Through a fusion of animation and real images, queer individuals from the Maghreb share their stories, from their homeland to various parts of the rest of the world. These individuals have fiercely broken societal taboos around gender and sexuality, defying social, legal and familial pressures, even among those who have chosen to break away from their families.
I Don’t Want to Be Just a Memory
Duration: 20’
Director: Sarnt Utamachote
Language: English, Spanish
Subtitles: English
Country: Germany
Year: 2024
Synopsis:
Berlin queer community members mourn the substance abuse-related loss of their friends by sharing memories and rituals. Resembling glow-in-the-dark fungi, they radiate light together as a network of support and care.
All The Colors In The World Are Between Black And White
93 minutes
Bambino and Bawa meet in Lagos and hit it off immediately. During their long trips around the city they develop a deep affection for each other. But in a society
Shall I Compare You To A Summer’s Day?
66 minutes
The director turns the diary of his sexual adventures into a serial narrative in the style of “One Thousand and One Nights”. This polyamorously-minded queer musical applies the same playful
The Art Of Sin
59 minutes
After coming to Norway as a refugee, Ahmed Umar has become a renowned artist. Proud of his roots, his art mixes Sudanese and western influences. In 2015, he came out
No Hard Feelings
92 minutes
Parvis, the son of exiled Iranians, copes with life in his small hometown by indulging himself with pop culture, Grindr dates, and raves. After being caught shoplifting, he is sentenced
Fabulous incl. short film Flores del Otro Patio
52 minutes
Ninja is famous around the world for her fierce ballroom performances, but she is not as well-known in her native country of French Guyana. But a trip home to teach
Silvana
95 minutes
Film about Swedish artist and feminist Silvana Imam. “Let’s smash patriarchy!” Swedish hip-hop artist Silvana Imam shouts through a megaphone, and hundreds of hands shoot into the air. Her raw
The Wound
88 minutes
Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp that
I Am Gay And Muslim incl. talk
59 minutes
This intimate documentary I AM GAY AND MUSLIM follows a number of young Moroccan gay men in their exploration of their religious and sexual identity. The men portrayed in the
Ato Noturno
117 minutes
An actor and a politician start a secret affair and together discover their fetish for having sex in public places. The closer they get to their dream of fame, the