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Kansai Queer Film Festival
Friday, 28 November 2025 until Sunday, 30 November 2025 Friday, 05 December 2025 until Sunday, 07 December 2025
Kyoto Venue
2025/11/28 (Fri), 11/29 (Sat), 11/30 (Sun)
Osaka Venue
2025/12/5 (Fri), 12/6 (Sat), 12/7 (Sun)
Kansai Queer Film Festival (KQFF) is a Kansai-based film festival that shines a spotlight on a wide variety of queer films, which focus on diverse genders, sexualities, and lifestyles. What distinguishes KQFF is its broad concern on themes and problems of not only LGBTs but also other minorities in the society and our community.
2025 programme...
28th November, Friday [KYOTO]
The reception will open at 18:10.
Door Open 18:25
(Film Starts 18:40)
EN with English subtitles
わたしの生まれた世界/Un mundo para mí/Newborn
(Director: Alejandro Zuno | 104 minutes | 2024 | Mexico | Spanish)
29th November, Saturday [KYOTO]
The reception will open at 10:00am.
Door Open 10:15
(Film Starts 10:30)
EN with English subtitles
イマジナリーライン/Imaginary Line
(Director: Kensho Sakamoto | 91 minutes | 2024 | Japan | Japanese)
Door Open 12:35
(Film Starts 12:50)
EN with English subtitles
これからの私たち/從今以後/All Shall Be Well
(Director: Ray YEUNG | 93 minutes | 2024 | Hong Kong | Cantonese)
Door Open 14:45
(Film Starts 15:00)
Domestic Gay shorts
(Japanese short film competition, 3 competition films)
- 最後のパズル/How to Solve a Puzzle Correctly
(Director: Inazu Santos Katsutomo | 5 minutes | 2024 | Japan | Japanese) - ５時のチャイム/The 5 O'Clock Chime
(Director: James Cooper | 15 minutes | 2024 | Japan | Japanese) - それで十分/ENOUGH
(Director: Ryoma Suzuki | 39 minutes | 2024-2025 | Japan | Japanese)
Door Open 17:15
(Film Starts 17:30)
Special Feature: Japan, Immigration, and Colonialism
(3 short films)
- 愛達/loves
(Director: Inazu Katsutomo | 18 minutes | 2019 | Japan | Japanese) - EN with English subtitles
Kotowari 断り
(Director: Coralie Watanabe Prosper | 22 minutes 53 seconds | 2024 | France | French, Japanese) - EN with English subtitles
流れゆく 遠い道/Along the Wound River
(Director: CHOE Yerin | 27 minutes | 2023 | Japan, South Korea | Japanese)
30th November, Sunday [KYOTO]
The reception will open at 10:00am.
Door Open 10:15
(Film Starts 10:30)
EN with English subtitles
今日の海が何色でも/Solids by the Seashore
(Director: Patiparn Boontarig | 93 minutes | 2023 | Thai | Thai, Southern Thai)
Door Open 12:25
(Film Starts 12:40)
水の中で深呼吸/Breathing Underwater
(Director: shoji yasui | 74 minutes | 2024 | Japan | Japanese)
Door Open 14:20
(Film Starts 14:35)
EN English spoken language
欲望の、けもの道/Desire Lines
(Director: Jules Rosskam | 83 minutes | 2024 | USA | English)
5th December, Friday [OSAKA]
The reception will open at 16:30.
Door Open 16:45
(Film Starts 17:00)
EN English spoken language
欲望の、けもの道/Desire Lines
(Director: Jules Rosskam | 83 minutes | 2024 | USA | English)
Door Open 18:45
(Film Starts 19:00)
EN with English subtitles
EN English spoken language
No Pride in Genocide! Solidarity with Palestine
(8 short films from Queer Cinema for Palestine 2025)
6th December, Saturday [OSAKA]
The reception will open at 10:00.
Door Open 10:15
(Film Starts 10:30)
世界は僕らに気づかない/Angry Son
(Director: IIZUKA Kasho | 112 minutes | 2022 | Japan | Japanese)
Door Open 12:55
(Film Starts 13:10)
EN English spoken language
欲望の、けもの道/Desire Lines
(Director: Jules Rosskam | 83 minutes | 2024 | USA | English)
Door Open 14:55
(Film Starts 15:10)
EN with English subtitles
レスボス島のレズビアンたち/Lesvia
(Director: Tzeli Hadjidimitriou | 77 minutes 38 seconds | 2024 | Greece | Greek, English, French, Italian)
Door Open 16:50
(Film Starts 17:05)
Domestic Trans Queer shorts
(Japanese short film competition, 3 competition films)
- トランス/TRANS
(Director: YANG YINI | 12 minutes | 2025 | Japan | Chinese) - 私はわたし/I am me
(Director: Soma Yuta | 16 minutes | 2023 | Japan | Japanese) - 異性愛/heterosexuality
(Director: Himawari Umeta | 38 minutes 54 seconds | 2024 | Japan | Japanese)
Door Open 19:15
(Film Starts 19:30)
Special Feature: Japan, Immigration, and Colonialism
(2 short films)
- EN with English subtitles
Kotowari 断り
(Director: Coralie Watanabe Prosper | 22 minutes 53 seconds | 2024 | France | French, Japanese) - EN with English subtitles
流れゆく 遠い道/Along the Wound River
(Director: CHOE Yerin | 27 minutes | 2023 | Japan, South Korea | Japanese)
7th December, Sunday [OSAKA]
The reception will open at 10:00.
Door Open 10:15
(Film Starts 10:30)
EN with English subtitles
わたしの生まれた世界/Un mundo para mí/Newborn
(Director: Alejandro Zuno | 104 minutes | 2024 | Mexico | Spanish)
Door Open 12:35
(Film Starts 12:50)
EN with English subtitles
子を生（な）すこと/LOVE ALONE CAN'T MAKE A CHILD
(Director: Judith Beuth | 104 minutes | 2024 | Germany, Norway | German, English)
Door Open 14:55
(Film Starts 15:10)
Domestic Queer Lesbian shorts+Greenhorn
(Japanese short film competition, 3 competition films. Plus 1 bonus film)
- Hear. Me. Out.
(Director: Yukie Mochizuki | 17 minutes 17seconds | 2024 | Japan | Japanese) - 悠久 UQ/UQ~Utopian Queerness~
(Director: Kaede Itsuki | 25 minutes | 2025 | Japan | Japanese, English) - 魔性の女A/femme fatale A
(Director: Yuki Nishio | 35 minutes 38 seconds | 2025 | Japan | Japanese)
EN English spoken language
ウエスタンハット/Greenhorn
(Director: Sabrina Way | 20 minutes | 2024 | Canada | English）
Door Open 18:15
(Film Starts 18:30)
EN with English subtitles
今日の海が何色でも/Solids by the Seashore
(Director: Patiparn Boontarig | 93 minutes | 2023 | Thai | Thai, Southern Thai)