Fringe! The London Gay Film Fest

2025 films...​

NIÑXS​

Circo​

She Done Him Wrong​

Brigitte’s Planet B​

Cactus Pears (Sabar Bonda) 

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It's Complicated​​

Relationships are messy. This programme serves up unvarnished snapshots of queer love and sex in all their complicated glory — from intimate reflections on touch and taste to transmasc pregnancy panics, sleepless nights beside strangers to tender goodbyes in the park. No fairy tale endings here, just the raw, honest moments that make us human. 

I Had Sex, But... | dir. Ang Li | China, UK 2025 | 15'

The Hold | dir. Ashley James Panton | UK 2025 | 12'

The Last Goodbye | dir. Ahlaam Yasmin | US 2025 | 3'

The Wandering Trees | dir. Jianan Li | China 2025 | 24'

Into the Night | dir. Corentin Vouzellaud | France 2024 | 18'

Purebred | dir. Caleb J. Roberts | Ireland, UK 2025 | 15'

I Like The Way You Taste | dir. Maya A. Williams | UK 2025 | 5'

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((( healing vibes )))​

​Outside of corporate self-care marketing tactics, what actually works to bring relief? Because it’s probably not the gold leaf snail mucus face mask, babe. It’s us. Bringing themes of companionship, solidarity and self-love together this programming explores healing within queer community. Sometimes we just need advice, a friend to talk through our problems, or sometimes we need to give ourselves permission to transform. We’re reminded in the process, the personal is always political. 

Shoobs | dir. Lisle Turner | United Kingdom | 2024 | 12’

A coming-of-age story set at a banging South London house party in the early noughties. Lisa needs advice on how to deal with her feelings for Blazer and Jada.

 

Find the Boy (Cherchez le garçon) | dir. Paulin.e Goasmat | France | 2025 | 18

As Charly, a young trans man, is laid to rest under his birth name, his queer pals decide to pay tribute to him which is at odds with his family's wishes.

 

Forgive Me Father | dir. Grac Talbot | United Kingdom | 2025 | 6’

Sapphic desire reaches through time from Catholic school toilet cubicles to the club bathroom.

 

Honeymoon | dir. Alkis Papastathopoulos | Greece | 2023 | 25’

A take on the road movie, Sandra and Fay are at the crossroads of their friendship as Fay plans to leave Greece following a traumatic event.

 

For Genesis | dir. Kin Marie | United States | 2024 | 12’

Through shared memories and personal mementos, a group of friends find solace, celebrating their bond and the life of their late friend Genesis.

 

Young King | dir. Larin Sullivan | United States | 2023 | 5’

A Drag King channels a bittersweet fuck you dad positivity through drag sing-along #GRWM, bc who needs a father when you can channel your own daddy.

 

Kingdom | dir. Poppy Bullard | United Kingdom | 2024 | 19’

Delving into the Drag King community, East London troupe PECS celebrates its 10th Anniversary in this documentary that highlights some of the most prominent King’s on the scene. 

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Circuit Breakers​

With a mix of experimental, narrative & non-fiction forms, these films explore how queers are finding ways to disrupt the fascist systems and technologies that perpetuate violence, incarcerate us and prevent us from building international queer solidarity. 

Chimera | dir. Gael Jara, Martín André | Chile | 2024 | 11'

The Blurring Of Trees | dir. Fanny Perreault | Canada | 2024 | 11'

The sap under our tongues | dir. Kenzo Di Maggio | France | 2024 | 8'

Support Available | dir. Jessica Wilcock | UK | 2024 | 5'

Emile is Missing | dir. Sam Carson, Félix Morreo Zisserman | Australia | 2024 | 16'

Keith | dir. Steven Fraser | UK | 2024 | 8'

Dirty Care | dir. Isa Schieche | Austria | 2024 | 17'

The Beginning of Identification, and its End | dir. Philipp Gufler | Germany | 2024 | 19' 

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Back to the Q-ture​

Dust off your VHS players and pull out your neon leotards for these retro (not hetero) sci-fi superpower shorts that will zap you into a library love story and zoom you into a colonial philosopher’s kinks. Let’s be real, not everything was better in the 80s but the decade gave us the best in campy lo-fi special effects and these shorts take us back to that vibe and take us forwards into a superpowered superqueered superfuture. If there’s one thing we know it’s that, whether it’s ocean-hopping cannibals, crime-fighting trans witches in 2050s Rio or a camp for kung fu masters, everything looks better with some neon and a few overworked smoke machines.

 

Telepathic encounters (Encontros Telepáticos) | dir. Henfil | 2025 | Brazil | 5’

You can’t speak in the library but there’s no need for words in this telepathic meet cute.

 

Wild Fruits | dir. Bernardo Zanotta | 2024 | Netherlands | 35’

Jean-Aurand is a servant to French philosopher Montaigne after returning from Antarctic France (now Brazil). While he has moved on from colonial travels, his encounters won’t leave him and his master alone.

 

If I’m Here It is By Mystery (Se Eu Tô Aqui é Por Mistério) | Clari Ribeiro | 2024 | Brazil | 22’

New Rio in 2054 is a cyberpunk dystopia with crime on every corner. Until Dahlia arrives. From the city’s underclass, she puts together a Clan of trans witches ready to fight back.

 

THE MARTIAL FOREST | dir. J Triangular | 2025 | Colombia, Taiwan | 8’

In a dystopian future, exiled Kung Fu master Big Sister 13 leads a gang of trans and queer fighters who reclaim a forgotten zone and transform it into the Martial Fores, a secret training ground. 

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Thieving Angels​

Packed with homegrown talent, Thieving Angels celebrates trans excellence both on screen and behind the scenes. Angels, judges, and megalomaniac theatre directors create stories of elegant criminals, kitchen-sink dramas, and hilarious all-trans theatre auditions. 

Extremely small claims court | dir. Ray Resvick | Canada | 2025 | 8’

The Robbers | dir. Isa Schieche| Austria | 2023  | 15’

The Guard | dir. Patrick McCormick | UK | 2025  | 10’

Divine Intervention | dir. Ravenna Tran | UK | 2024 | 17’

Principal Boy | dir. Maz Murray | UK | 2024 | 21’ 

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Celestial Bodies & Other Space Oddities

Leave your earthly bounds behind and let your dreams take shape among the stars as we venture across the cosmos in this radiant collection of short films. In space, heavenly bodies and deep-seated feelings of yearning are laid bare but intergalactic exploration threatens to lead hearts astray as we visit whimsical planets, witness solar storms and hook-up with extraterrestrial lifeforms. 

Once In A Full Moon | dir. Cilu Dièl, Popo La Sodo & Ernesto Fag | Belgium | 2025 | 23’

A romantic tale of a captivating yet impossible love between the Moon and a Little Vampire set in a whimsical and sultry world.

Men on the Moon | dir. Raghed Charabaty | Canada | 2024 | 13’

An ode to recluse queers on far away moons.

For Small Creatures | dir. Dylan Jeanette Albertson | US | 2025 | 5’

An astronaut gets a second chance to say goodbye.

Clotilde dir. Maria João Lourenço | Portugal | 2025 | 4’

In a planet where reproduction is mandatory in the daily life of its inhabitants, there is an alien who just wishes to pleasure herself.

Plasma | dir. Ifeanyi Aliya Odita | US | 2025 | 8’

When an isolated dreamer wishes on a star and it gains a human form, they must overcome their agoraphobia in order to save the star girl from Mr. Sun.

Sky Rogers: Manager to the Stars | dir. Ciel Sourdeau | Switzerland | 2024 | 19’

Sky Rogers tries to fashion a failed boys-band, will the manager stare at the heavens while his stars slip away?

Space Daddy | dir. Stephen Carruthers | UK | 2025 | 11’

A hook up between twentysomething year old twink Andy and a mysterious hunk he meets on the dating app 'Strangr' has some... out-of-this-world consequences... 

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Bang!​

Summer might be over but we’ll still be getting hot and sweaty for a few hours with the return of a regular fixture in the Fringe! programme. These shorts (sorry size queens) feature a (w)hole spread of genres, bodies and genders stripping off and turning you on. It’s no darkroom but it might start to feel like one once we’ve dimmed the lights. Whether you’re into coaxing or titillating or both, you won’t regret cumming along. 

My Perfect Dolly | dir. Ryan Suits | US 2024 | 17’

Two non-binary plus-size femmes play together creating the perfect kinky dolly.

 

Top Secret | dir. Jorge The Obscene | Chile 2024 | 5’

A gentle fun-poking at the rigid roles two men are expected to perform in the bedroom.

 

Everyone Loves Sofi | dir. Jana Nowak | Germany 2023 | 19’

Everyone loves Sofi and Sofi loves everyone getting naked on her sofa!

 

Blind Date 3.0 | dir. Jan Soldat | Austria 2025 | 6’

Dating apps are not only for young gay men! But what if they find themselves without chem?

 

The Key To Dreams | dir. Gerard X Reyes | Canada 2024 | 7’

A portal into the subconscious of performer-director Gerard X Reyes, as he ventures through the dreamy world of queer erotic cinema.

 

À Guichet Fermé | dir. Manon Praline | Germany 2024 | 17’

A live threesome between two femmes and a photographer in the lounge of the Spoutnik cinema.

 

Red Light Green | dir. Eva Wu | US 2025 | 7’

A fun, hypnotic and self-assured letter to a parent that every queer, trans or sex worker would subscribe to.

 

Mommy | dir. Manon Praline, Evie Snax | US 2024 | 9’

A blunt and sincere autobiographical film about how the relationship to sexuality and self-pleasure can change after bottom surgery. 

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Queer Utopias​

Does queer utopia exist? What does it look like? Is it past, present or future? From the 1960s to the 2020s, from North America to the Greek island of Lesbos these three documentaries explore how lesbians and trans women have found safe spaces to create their communities and fully express themselves. 

Dextra | dir. Alex Lo, Dextra Darling | Canada | 2025 | 19'

A young transwoman searching for her identity spends a week in a trans punk house where she can safely express herself and test how she feels about her new name.

 

Ranch | dir. Florence Bass | UK | 2025 | 24’

Since the 90s Lesbos has been a town where lesbians would gather during the summer. In the early 2020s a new FLINTA festival was born, bringing the tradition forward.

 

Outliers and Outlaws | dir. Courtney Hermann | US | 2024 | 65’

From the 1960s to the 1990s, the city of Eugene, Oregon, was taken over by hundreds of lesbians who migrated there and created a unique community operating under its own anti-patriarchal and anti-capitalist rules. 

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Destabilisers​

The digital is glitching, the celluloid is bubbling, and the timelines are all messed up. Nevermind. Let’s ride together through a programme of films that touch on how we encounter love, prejudicial systems, and cultural traditions as trans and queer people. Delving into themes of movement, migration, and memory across these transhistorical, counter-collages. 

I had a long dream last night | dir. Samuel Zhang | United Kingdom | 2024 | 8’

Blending place and history together with the self in oneiric musings on what is lost and altered when we choose to live as our authentic selves.

 

the jujubes you didn’t catch | dir. Ellen Warner | UK | 2023 | 10’

Silent reflections on queer becoming and Korean cultural traditions. Explored autobiographically through overlapping collage and typed intertitles revealing the collisions and dissonances found in these intersecting identities.

 

Dragking Highway | dir. Junes Dreyfus | France | 2024 | 19’

Dragking Highway is a DIY digital road-movie, journaling and exploring the different textures and temporalities of transfem hitch-hiking. Mundane conversations of varying degrees of truth are layered over landscapes of never-ending highways, recreated gas-stations and compressed horizon lines.

 

BEWARE | dir. Wrik Mead | Canada | 2023 | 2’

Glitch intimacies. Bodies vibrate together in digital decay, BEWARE repurposes the voiceover from an anti-homosexual propaganda film from the sixties to reconstitute gay panic as visual pleasure.

 

this is (not) your ocean (aquest (no) és el teu oceà) | dir. Jordi Wijnalda | Belgium | 2024 | 13’

Queer bodies attract, fall in love, falter, perish. Are our bodies more vulnerable, and therefore our loves, too? An intimate, loving ode to those who have passed on before memories together could be made.

 

Bodyrebuilding | dir. Vivek Shraya | Canada | 2024 | 10’

Vivek Shraya reflects on her journey to discover a solution to her chronic pain. Considering the systems and structures that are responsible and how weightlifting became a tool for managing the pain in her body.

 

Erasure | dir. Fá Maria | United Kingdom | 2025 | 15

Contemplations of gender and AI are interfaced with audio and visuals built by training AI to respond to trans and non-binary voices. 

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What We Leave Behind​

Who said you should clear your history? These films are made up of all the traces of our lives that we don’t always hold up to the light of day. We’re rummaging through the queer cupboards of history and pulling out the good, the bad and the (sometimes) cringe archives of past generations and dusting them off for the future queer kids. A bracelet here, some video tapes or magazines there, everything has its stories to tell if you know how to look. 

Letz Meet @ The Internet Cafe | dir. Cyber Shanahoy | 2023 | Australia | 7’

A video scrapbook looking back at the band the filmmaker was part of as a teenager in the mid 00s, featuring MiniDV tapes, livejournal screenshots and subcultural throwbacks galore.

 

Vollúpya | dir. Éri Sarmet, Jocimar Dias Jr. | Brazil | 2024 | 21’

In a post-apocalyptic intergalactic future, an explorer landing on Earth looking for the people who used to live on the planet finds material documenting a 90s Brazilian queer club.

 

OCEANIA | dir. Valentin Noujaïm | 2024 | France | 24’

When 16-year old Najib’s mysterious elderly neighbour dies, the teenager starts searching through what he left behind, finding a love kept hidden in old letters, photographs and a bracelet.

 

Les fantômes du hard | dir. Lazare Lazarus | 2024 | France | 28’

After his death, squatters occupying a Frenchman’s house uncover a hidden documentary archive which takes us into Marseille’s queer fetish scene and the Mineshaft club.

 

Victim of Circumstance | dir. Kalil Haddad | 2024 | Canada | 22’

Scott and Brandon met in a 1980s orphanage before Brandon set off in search of the Californian dream. Following in his footsteps, the reality of this dream is unpicked through fragments of gay porn videos, magazines and other material. 

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TGirlsonFilm presents: Mirha's Transexual Touch​

“Gut-busting, ass-erupting and immoderately whorish” is how Mirha-Soleil Ross described her raw, unruly, and politically charged video work. Emerging in the ’90s as a sex worker, activist, and performance artist, Ross collaborated with t4t lover Xanthra MacKay and the Quebec Transexuals Association. Her tapes blur documentary, autobiography, and provocation, documenting trans and sex worker communities with care. TGirlsonFilm presents a rare screening of her vital video art — fierce meditations on gender, desire, animal rights, and reproductive politics. Gender troublemakers rejoice! 

An Adventure in Tucking with Jeanne B | dir. Mirha-Soleil Ross | Canada 1993 | 5'

Gendertroublemakers | dir. Mirha-Soleil Ross & Xanthra Phillippa MacKay | Canada 1993 | 20'

Journée Internationale de la Transsexualité | dir. Mirha-Soleil Ross | Canada 1998 | 38'

G-SPrOuT! | dir. Mirha-Soleil Ross & Mark Karbusicky | Canada 2000 | 12'

Madame Lauraine’s Transsexual Touch | dir. Mirha-Soleil Ross, Viviane Namaste & Monica Forrester | Canada 2001 | 34'

Tremblement de chair | dir. Mirha-Soleil Ross | Canada 2001 | 4'

Allo Performance! | dir. Mirha-Soleil Ross | Canada 2002 | 13’ 

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Messy​

Late night food fights, nihilistic road trips and diesel dyke pump action all roller-coast their way through this programme of shorts. No matter how messy life can get, It’s yuh mates that pull you through. 

Garden Gimp | dir. Flynn Shuttlewood | UK | 2025 | 5’

Sriracha | dir. Weili Hsing | UK | 2025 | 9’

Taps | dir. Louis O. Utieyin | UK | 2025 | 5’

Spicy Noodles | dir. Sophia Hochedlinger | Austria | 2025 | 9’

Everything Is so Boring | dir Federico Cianferoni | Italy | 2025 | 11’

No Future Kids | dir. Eleni Poulopoulou | Greece | 2024 | 20’

Bleifrei95 / Unleaded 95 | dir. Tina Emy Muffler |  Austria, Germany | 2025 | 26’ 

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Make Yrself at Home​

What does home mean to you? These films reflect how DIY aesthetics and independent ways of filmmaking can queer understandings of the myriad manifestations of home-making, across stories of migrancy, found families, falling in love and building new borderless ways of existing in community. 

Home Within | dir. Mehriban Karimova | Azerbaijan | 2024 | 6'

A Place to Belong | dir. Theingi Win | Myanmar | 2025 | 16'

A Synonym For Art: Andriniki | dir. Kasey L. Martin | US | 2025 | 4'

À Poings et À Cœurs | dir. Augustine Caille | France | 2024 | 8'

CityScape Dreams | dir. Nargiz Mammadli | Azerbaijan | 2024 | 13'

The Rich Queers of Hong Kong | dir. Teef Chan | Hong Kong | 2025 | 6'

BULL’S HEART | dir. Margarita Bagdasaryan | Germany | 2024 | 14'

Aliens in Beirut | dir. Raghed Charabaty | Canada, Lebanon | 2024 | 17'

Les Caminantes | dir. Ari Vidal | Peru | 2024 | 5' 

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Reelness​

Forget HD. These films hiss, pulse, and fall apart at the seams. This programme frames the queer experience through the unstable textures of analogue film. Protest is etched into emulsion, longing flickers through light, and identity flickers, refracts, transforms. Here, the medium becomes the message. From documentary portraits of a centenarian DJ to fragmented collages where bodies dissolve into abstract photograms, from the vivid contradictions of a Seattle Pride parade captured on grainy Super 8 to 16mm direct animation made with testosterone gel packets, these works wield celluloid as resistance and living archive. 

Transist | dir. Jordan Faye Bardgett | US | 2023 | 2'

in the streets of june | dir. Hogan Seidel | US |  2025 | 4'

Trans - Iterations 1 to 3 | dir. Sammy Holden | UK | 2024 | 5'

Saccharine Wonderland & Forces That Make Me Shiver | dir. Tushar Gidwani | India, US | 2024 | 7'

In Another Life | dir. Tristan Blue | US | 2025 | 9'

rot | dir. Autojektor | UK | 2024 | 2'

Alicia | dir. Juana Robles | Ireland | 2024 | 25'

Testosterone Gel 1.62% | dir. Avian de Keizer | US | 2025 | 1'

Purvette | dir. Alex Eisenberg | UK | 2024 | 5' 

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(be)longings​

These tender films reveal how desires find a place in human connection. Sentimentality, yearnings, and romance bloom across stories of companionship and community. These rhythms run through journeys of self-discovery, missed connections, sapphic staring competitions, and the bliss found in gendered becoming(s). There is space for you in the cuddle puddle as we revel in feelings of togetherness, together. 

Out of Phase | dir. Lizzie Johnstone | United Kingdom 2024 | 9’

The poetic imaginings of a potential meet-cute are explored through kaleidoscopic dreamscapes and dance.

 

Contact | dir. Annabelle Miller | Australia 2025 | 5’

Intimacy is on the agenda when two young sapphics attempt a four-minute gaze of uninterrupted eye contact.

 

Linger (Ponto e Vírgula) | dir. Thiago Kistenmacker | Brazil 2024 | 17’

Love isn’t always lost, sometimes just displaced. Rekindling a former relationship 30 years after their original romance João and Vito meet again in their seventies and reconnect.

 

Stubble | dir. Emma Zuck | Canada 2024 | 13’

This experimental documentary gently explores what hardness and softness means when you are queer.

 

A Kin Sin | dir. Gulzar | Canada 2024 | 5’

What are the joys and aches that come with gender exploration?

 

How a River is Born (Como Nasce Um Rio) | dir. Luma Flôres | Brazil 2025 | 8’

Ayla wakes up in a mountainous landscape, she goes on a journey of discovery to find out where and who she is.

Warm Shadows (Nighiyaan Chhavan) | dir. Aakash Chhabra | India, Singapore 2025 | 14’

An interlude of intergenerational queerness and questioning between a mother and son.

Come Dance With Me | dir. Nwaọ | United States 2024 | 8’

A visual archive documenting rhythmic stories of dance in the Black Diaspora across history.

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