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    LGBTQIA+ Film festivals Guide in Europe

    In co-operation with many of our partners, the European Film Academy have started a list of LGBTQIA+ relevant festivals across Europe.

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    LGBTQIA+ festivals list

    AUSTRIA

    13 – 17 November 2024
    QUEERTACTICS Queer Feminist Film Festival
    Vienna

    BELGIUM 

    BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 

    CYPRUS

    8 – 17 September 2023
    Queer Wave Cyprus LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
    Nicosia

    CZECH REPUBLIC 

    November 2023
    Mezipatra
     

    Brno & Prague 

    DENMARK

    25 October – 3 November
    MIX.CPH Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Queer Intersex Asexual+ Film Festival
    Copenhagen 

    ESTONIA

    Festheart LGBT+ Film Festival Estonia
    Tartu 27 – 29 September 2024
    Rakvere 4 – 6 October 2024

    FINLAND 

    FRANCE 

    18 – 28 November 2023
    Chéries-Chéris 
    Paris  

    18 – 29 April 2024
    In & Out
     

    Nice 

    26 – 29 October
    Paris Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival 
    Paris 

    17 – 19 November 2023
    Face a Face
     

    Saint-Étienne 

    GERMANY

    February
    Berlinale: Teddy Awards 
    Berlin 

    15 – 18 June
    Xposed Queer Film Festival 
    Berlin 

    Queer Film Festival 
    13 cities 


    5 – 8 October
    Queer Film Festival Oldenburg 
    Oldenburg 

    19 – 25 October
    QUEER-Streifen Film Festival Regensburg 
    Regensburg 

    19 – 27 October
    PRIDE PICTURES
    Queer Film Festival Karlsruhe

    IRELAND 

    ISRAEL 

    Lethal Lesbian 
    Tel Aviv 

    22 – 24 June
    TLVFest
    Tel Aviv 

    ITALY 

    28 September – 01 October 2023
    MIX Milano 
    Milan

    16 – 21 April 2024
    Lovers Film Festival – Torino LGBTQI Visions 
    Turin 

    25- 31 March 2024
    Sicilia Queer filmfest 
    Palermo 

    LITHUANIA 

    MONTENEGRO 

    Merlinka Festival 
    Podgorica 

    NETHERLANDS 

    22 March – 2 April
    Roze Filmdagen 
    Amsterdam 

    18 – 21 May
    TranScreen Filmfestival Amsterdam
    Amsterdam

    1 – 8 September
    Queer Film Festival Utrecht 
    Utrecht

    25-28 July
    International Queer & Migrant Film Festival 
    Amsterdam 

    POLAND 

    LGBT Film Festival 
    Warsaw, Cracow, Poznan, Wroclaw, Lodz, Konin, Gdansk, Bydgoszcz, Szczecin & Online, Poland 

    13 – 18 June
    Post Pxrn Film Festival Warsaw 
    Warsaw

    PORTUGAL

    Queer Lisboa International Queer Film Festival 
    22 – 30 September: Lisbon 

    10 – 14 October: Porto 

    ROMANIA 

    RO Q DOC 
    Bucharest 

    23 – 30 September
    International Queer Film Festival art200
    Bucharest 

    SERBIA 

    Merlinka Festival 
    Belgrade, Novi Sad 

    SLOVENIA 

    SPAIN 

    8 – 16 June
    FIRE!! Mostra 
    Barcelona 

    Festival Internacional de Cine LGBTI+ de Madrid 
    Madrid 

    Zinegoak 
    Bilbao 

    21 – 30 March
    CINHOMO 
    Valladolid 

    20 – 28 May
    ENDIMARIS – Sitges LGTBIQ+ Film Festival 
    Sitges 

    11 – 19 September
    OUT! Mostra de cinema LGTBIQ+ de les Iles Balears
    Palma de Mallorca

    SWEDEN 

    2 – 8 October
    Cinema Queer International Film Festival 
    Stockholm 

    5 – 11 June
    West Pride 
    Gothenburg 

    SWITZERLAND 

    Pink Apple
    25 April – 4 May: Zürich 

    5 – 7 May: Frauenfeld

    2 – 8 November
    Queersicht 
    Bern 

    TURKEY 

    11 – 28 January 2024
    Pink Life QueerFest 
    Istanbul 

    UKRAINE 

    22 – 28 June
    Sunny Bunny 
    Kyiv 

    UK

    15 – 26 March
    BFI Flare 
    London  

    10 – 15 October
    Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival  
    Cardiff

    23 – 26 March
    Leeds Queer Film Festival 
    Leeds

    November
    Outburst Queer Arts Festival 
    Belfast  

    24 June – 10 July 
    Queer Vision Film Festival  
    Bristol 

    April-June 2023
    Scottish Queer International Film Festival 
    Glasgow