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Geelong Pride Film Festival
Thursday, 30 April 2026 until Sunday, 10 May 2026
The Geelong Pride Film Festival (GPFF) in an emerging LGBTIQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans & Gender Diverse, Intersex and Queer) film festival in Geelong, Australia. Our non-profit community-run festival screens contemporary and classic LGBTIQ+ themed films in Geelong during an inclusive film festival for the whole community. In addition to our annual festival we host special one-off screenings throughout the year.
We screen a diverse mix of LGBTIQ+ feature films, short films, feature documentaries, short documentaries from across the world.
Geelong Pride Film Festival includes venue-based screenings in cinemas and theatres and selected online screenings. Cinema screenings are presented at The Pivotonian Cinema in South Geelong, Village Cinemas Geelong. Feature screenings are presented at Platform Arts theatre in central Geelong. Online screenings use the CineSend platform for secure, location and time restricted viewing.
Occasional prizes and commissions may be awarded. Past awards have included:
- Best Short Film Concept
- Best Short Film Screenplay
- GPFF Uplift Award
- Best Production Design
- Student Filmmaker Award
- Best LGBTIQ+ Documentary or Non-fiction Short Film
2026 films...
Identity Quest - Julie Peters - Performance + Q&A
Ladybugs
Two eccentric friends living in a nursing home co-opt a secret operation after discovering they share something special in common.
Director: Ariella Jelic, 2022, Australia, 6 mins, English, Unclassified 15+
Bad Habits
Florian and Lukas had a great evening together. Instead of unnecessarily prolonging the getting-to-know-you phase, they reveal all their bad habits and put their still fresh connection to the test.
Director: Theresa Valentin, 2024, Germany, 6 mins, German with English subtitles, Unclassified 15+
The Act
On a Portuguese gay beach João meets a mysterious migrant whose stories of forbidden love and loss lead to a tense game where words and gestures blur the line between truth and lies.
Director: Nikita Loyk, 2025, Portugal, 17 mins, English, Unclassified 15+
Intermittent Intimacy
A man looks for something deeper when hookups are all that seem to be available.
Director: Joe Hogan, 2024, United Kingdom, 4 mins, English, Unclassified 15+
IUS of Time
In an Asturian village, an encounter between a young photographer and reclusive cheesemaker leads to unexpected connection and hope for the future.
Director: Roberto F. Canuto, Xiaoxi Xu, 2025, Spain, 25 mins, Spanish with English subtitles, Unclassified 15+
Magic 8
This film follows what happens when making a queer connection in a stereotypically “Straight” space.
Director: Robyn Faye, 2025, United Kingdom, 5 mins, English, Unclassified 15+
Socks
This film tells the love story between two young men in 1990s Spain, a time marked by social intolerance and fear.
Directors: Miguel Ángel Olivares, Ana Beyron, Alejandra Beyron, 2025, Spain, 19 mins, Spanish with English subtitles, Unclassified 15+
Bears on Film
Bears can dance and bears can also be glamorous! This film celebrates all that is furry and masculine about Bear culture whilst elevating them to a contemporary level of style.
Director: Albert Koomen, 2025, Australia, 3 mins, English, Unclassified 15+
Ramona
As unwitting collateral damage of her mothers' separation, Ramona seeks to prove that being a millennial dog isn't all that bad.
Directors: Natalia Ximena Molina, Luisba Fuentes, 2024, Mexico, 5 mins, Spanish, Unclassified 15+
Ranch
Skala Eressos, Lesbos, has long been a mecca for queer women as they trace the steps of Sappho, the poetess who gave lesbianism its name.
Director: Florence Bass, 2025, United Kingdom, 24 mins, English, Unclassified 15+
Eye of the Veil
After the sudden death of her pregnant partner, a closeted attorney must embrace her sexuality and humanity.
Director: Dorothy A. Atabong, 2022, Canada, 23 mins, English, Unclassified 15+
If You Only Knew
Accused of attacking her closeted girlfriend, an East Asian girl must prove her innocence while keeping their secret.
Director: Wendy Yee Man Wong, 2025, United Kingdom, 11 minutes, English, Unclassified 15+
Seasons Along Rivers
"I'm rooted but I flow", a queer romance of identity and destiny flowing along mighty Murray and gentle Darling Rivers in rural Australia.
Director: Lesley Le Luo, 2025, Australia, 20 mins, English, Mandarin Chinese, Unclassified 15+
Selma
In 1930s Berlin, Selma Engler, an aspiring writer, must choose between security and her convictions.
Director: Christina Maria Schmid, 2025, Germany, 29 mins, German, Unclassified 15+
Trans, Gender Diverse and Non-binary Shorts
Leo
On their last day together before he moves to Los Angeles for college, Leo and Kai hide in the sports center where they have always played basketball. What starts as a prank ends with Leo confessing his feelings for his best friend Kai.
Director: Fernando Reinaldos, 2023, Spain, United States, 14 mins, English, Unclassified 15+
Dance Like Everyone's Watching
Hayden, a trans Irish and pole dancer, lives under a constant spotlight and expresses gender on his own terms. This documentary is a celebration of resilience, strength, and the joy of dancing to the beat of your own drum.
Director: Ash Hingston, 2025, Australia, 13 mins, English, Unclassified 15+
Casa Sussanna
Paris, 1973. Paolo, a Superman fan, discovers his grandfather’s double identity on a winter night. That evening, Tito will become Susanna.
Director: Pauline Bernard-Vernay, 2025, France, 2 mins, French, Unclassified 15+
The Door is Open
An intentional protection spell woven in light and shadow—an offering of grief, joy, and magic created specifically for trans and non-binary viewers. This short film acts as a private portal and act of care, a space where you are invited, necessary, and seen.
Director: Sarah Hill, 2025, United States, 3 mins, English, Unclassified 15+
Lessons From Our Garden
Mélanie and Lucie’s journey offers a rare look at queer parenthood, providing a universal reflection on perseverance and the many forms that family can take.
Director: Marion Quesneau, 2025, Canada, 6 mins, French, Unclassified 15+
Health Throb
18 year old Gray is in love with his best friend Angelo, but his desire for social media stardom complicates things.
Director: Greta Nash, 2023, Australia, 14 mins, English, Unclassified 15+
Touch
At a crossroads between an old flame and an unraveling sense of self, Mac is drawn to Kieran, a charismatic photographer who awakens a dormant longing. Tension finally breaks at a crowded house party, leading to a heartfelt confession and their entanglement unravelling.
Director: Joa Darmansjah, 2025, Australia, 16 mins, English, Unclassified 15+
Mongrel Punt
A young, closeted footy player learns just how painful hiding can be.
Director: Chloe Broadbent, 2025, Australia, 8 mins, English, Unclassified 15+
Unpack
An animated short film about identity, trauma, and healing. The story follows the changing nature of the protagonist and their coping mechanism.
Director: Lisa Aleta Nazareth, 2025, India, 3 mins, English, Unclassified 15+
Fragile
Wiktor (18) touches his sleeping friend, Dominik (17), with whom he is secretly in love. Upon waking, a confrontation erupts between the two boys, as it turns out Dominik hasn't slept.
Director: Rafał Łysak, 2025, Poland, 8 mins, Polish with English subtitles, Unclassified 15+
Damn
This queer coming-of-age drama follows Bailey, a non-binary introvert. While watching the night unfold, a chance encounter introduces them to Charlie- a charming and outgoing extrovert.
Director: Indy Jo Woodward, 2025, Australia, 14 mins, English, Unclassified 15+
Contact
Two mismatched young women navigate through challenge themselves to an intimate four-minute gaze of uninterrupted eye contact, challenging their perceptions of connection and the possibility of falling in love.
Director: Annabelle Miller, 2025, Australia, 6 mins, English, Unclassified 15+
GPFF Finale 2026 - Happy Endings Short Films
Cockroach
Juliette tries to survive a breakup with her girlfriend by chronically masturbating and trying to convince herself to start dating men. Her delirium is finally relieved (sort of) by an unexpected stranger.
Director: Heather Older, 2025, United States, 8 mins, English, Unclassified 15+
Big Flirt
Edward is sweating over his poetry performance, all the while trying to get to know Max, and compete with the flirtatious Alex, the event’s snarky, but charming MC . Judy wants Ruth, but will her ex Penny, and Judy’s own knitted fashion choices get in the way? Ex-girlfriends, angry poets, rusty romantics, and a dash of imposter syndrome collide at a spoken word event in this LGBTIQ+ comedy short film/ pilot.
Director: Michelle Douglas, Australia, 2025, 18 mins, English, Unclassified 15+
The Exchange
Antonio and Inés are two strangers who arrange a meeting through a second-hand app. Inés wants to sell something she no longer tolerates; Antonio wants to try it. When they meet, an odd sense of mutual understanding emerges between them.
Director: Amaia Yoldi, 2023, Spain, 14 mins, Spanish, Unclassified 15+
Happy Next Year
On New Year's morning, Sharunas wakes up next to the charming guy, Martin, while his girlfriend, Iveta, is in the shower. Sharunas can't help but wonder if things will ever be the same again.
Director: Lukas Kacinauskas, 2024, Lithuania, 17 mins, English, Lithuanian, Unclassified 15+
Yee-Ha!
In a hot and dry desert, two gruff cowboys are set for a tense duel. Fingers wiggling as they try to intimidate each other. Unless their bond is not the one we suspect...
Directors: Ana Ruíz Sánchez, Charlie Ben Jazia, Clémence Lépine, Maximilien Delmas, Victoria Salvanès, 2025, Canada, 2 mins, Unclassified 15+
HIV Still Matters: The Future of HIV
Today, people living with HIV who are on treatment can live long, healthy lives and cannot pass the virus on. Yet many still face outdated assumptions, fear and discrimination.
Director: Jake Neville, 2025, Australia, 6 mins, English, Unclassified 15+
Clam Diving for Beginners
Coach “Daddy” trains a late-blooming lesbian, Carmen, before her big date.
Director: Clara Marshall, 2025, Germany, 18 mins, English, Unclassified 15+