2024

Queer Shorts

Celebrating the best in LGBTQIA+ short filmmaking.

Runtime

88 Minutes

Classification

Unclassified 15+

See queer stories from Australia and around the world at AFF's Queer Shorts screening.

Featuring an artist profile, holiday romance, family secrets and first love heartbreak, these shorts will tug at heartstrings.

Film Credits

Year

2024

Type

Short

Program Strand

Shorts

Genre

LGBTQIA+ & Short

Screens With

Alok

Alex Hedison delivers a compelling portrait of her friend, Alok Vaid-Menon, the internationally acclaimed, non-binary, author, poet, comedian, and public speaker.

Director

Alexandra Hedison

Country

United States

Runtime

19 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Goodbye First Love

He pays him a visit in Frankfurt during his work trip. This could be the last time he sees him.

Director

Shuli Huang

Country

United States

Runtime

13 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Perfect Boy Next Door

A sex worker recovering from a brutal encounter, faces a life-changing opportunity when a TV show offers to share his story.

Director

Craig Boreham

Country

Australia

Runtime

10 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Ripe!

Nothing says "it's complicated" like breaking your crush's arm.

Director

Tusk

Country

Spain

Runtime

18 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Three

A Chinese woman who has moved to live with her daughter tries to keep her daughter’s secrets from her friends.

Director

Amie Song

Country

United States

Runtime

15 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

You can't get what you want but you can get me

A unique slideshow documenting two long-haired trans men falling madly in love. A sweet and steamy celebration of T4T love.

Director

Samira Elagoz

Z Walsh

Country

Netherlands

Runtime

13 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Purchase Tickets

Saturday 2 Nov 2024

09:15 pm

Queer Shorts

The Piccadilly:

The Piccadilly: Cinema 2

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Stress Positions

Revel in the chaos of the early days of COVID in Theda Hammel’s queer comedy that was a hit at Sundance. Hammel co-stars with John Early (Search Party) to poke fun at the politics of bougie Brooklynites.

Lesbian Space Princess

Introverted space princess Saira is unexpectedly dumped by her girlfriend Kiki for being too needy. But when Kiki is kidnapped by the Straight White Maliens, they demand the one thing Saira doesn’t have: the most powerful weapon known to lesbian kind – her royal labrys.

I'm Not Everything I Want to Be

A young female photographer escapes the oppressive forces of Soviet-era Czechoslovakia, using her camera as a means of self-expression and liberation. Told through thousands of mostly black and white still photographs and excerpts from her diary, I’m Not Everything I Want to Be captures the spirit of the times.

Young Hearts

In this charming film set in the Belgian countryside, young Elias falls in love for the first time when Alexandre moves in next door. Anthony Schatteman’s impressive feature debut about queer romance is a sweet and moving film for everyone.