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  • aGLIFF: Prism Film Festival
  • Beijing Queer Film Festival
  • BFI London Film Festival
  • BIGff: Bari International Gender Film Festival
  • Black Alphabet Film Festival
  • Busan International Film Festival
  • Cine Movilh
  • Cineffable
  • Dayton LGBT Film Festival
  • Diverso Festival Internacional de Cine LGBT
  • ENDIMARIS - Sitges LGTBIQ+ Film Festival
  • Everybody's Perfect
  • Festival Massimadi
  • Gender Bender
  • Hamburg International Queer Film Festival
  • ImageOut: Rochester
  • Iris Prize
  • LA Queer Film Festival
  • LGBT Toronto Film Festival
  • Lust*streifen Film Festival Basel
  • Melt Open
  • MIX COPENHAGEN LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
  • New Farm Queer Film Festival
  • NewFest
  • Norfolk Queer International Film Festival
  • Outshine Film Festival - Fort Lauderdale
  • Perlen – Queer Film Festival Hannover
  • Pink Screens in Brussels
  • Pride Pictures: Karlsruhe
  • QFFM - Queer Film Festival München
  • Queer Film Fest Weiterstadt
  • Queer-Streifen Regensburg
  • QueerFilm Festival Bremen
  • QueerFilmFest Rostock
  • Reel Q
  • San Antonio QFest
  • Scottish Queer International Film Festival
  • Tels Quels Festival
  • tilde: Melbourne Trans & Gender Diverse Film Festival
  • TLVFest
  • Transweek
  • Utah Queer Film Festival
  • Vinokino Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
  • Vues d'en Face - Grenoble
  • Way OUT West Film Fest
And What? Queer. Arts. Festival

And What? Queer. Arts. Festival

This edition of And What? brings together the (un)usual in home-grown talent and international artistes, the brave, bold, under-and-overground of the queer avant garde and the strong voices and diverse perspectives of our community. It celebrates thehardcore to the normcore, in/difference, division and unity,and all the beauty that lies inbetween.

We have selected work that can break boundaries, challenge and comfort. It’s a programme that references the past and envisions afuture for risk, innovation and new experiences. It includes bonafide Queer icons and makes space for up-and-coming legends. As ever And What? makes new connections and encourages collaboration.

We wanted to remind ourselves that Queer is Difference. That it is odd, that it is intersectional, and that it is not homogenised. Queer is ageless, gender-free and political. With that in mind the programme really is a jolly jumble of joys for you to discover, with no overarching narrative, just a journey of chance encounters, opportunities and dalliances. Not exactly something for everyone, but definitely a little somethin’ somethin’ …