2025

Queer Shorts

Celebrating the best in LGBTQIA+ short filmmaking.

Runtime

84 Minutes

Classification

Unclassified 18+

The diversity of the queer community is reflected in the range of filmmaking styles and techniques on display in this shorts package, from stop motion animation to webcam footage, rickshaws to flying crabs.

Film Credits

Type

Short

Genre

LGBTQIA+ & Short

Screens With

Automagic

On his return home, androgynous-looking Madhu attempts to seduce Ratnakar, his rickshaw driver, who is practicing celibacy in preparation for a religious pilgrimage.

Director

Ashok Vish

Country

India

Runtime

13 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Boyish

Director

Scarlett Scherer

Country

Australia

Runtime

12 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Crabs in the Air

After a devastating argument with his partner, Iván runs away in search of refuge and freedom. With no money or direction, he reconnects with an old love who has already rebuilt his life, reliving unresolved wounds and desires. That night, the past returns under the silent gaze of a crab...

Director

Esteban Guerrero Carranco

Country

Mexico

Runtime

18 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Emile is Missing

Director

Sam Carson

Félix Morreo Zisserman

Country

Australia

Runtime

16 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 18+

Ladies Night

During a girls' night clubbing with her best friend Fiona, Viv spots her ex, Remy. Determined to keep the night going, Fiona helps score Viv a hot new babe to move on (and shove it in Remy’s stupid face).

Director

Lucy Bubalo

Shayla Nguyen

Country

Australia

Runtime

4 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

The Eating of an Orange

In a large manor house identical figures eat the same, move the same, look the same. But everything will change for one woman when she gets given an orange by an unknown figure. She has never seen an orange.

Director

May Kindred-Boothby

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

8 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 18+

The Fling

A nice romantic dinner in a restaurant goes awry when it’s revealed one of them has a monstrous secret.

Director

Jemma Cotter

Country

Australia

Runtime

4 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

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