Queer, open and for everyone - Short Film Tour 2025
Short, sharp, and full of diversity:
Short films offer a stage for fresh perspectives, bold stories, and creative ways of storytelling. For the seventh year in a row, our queer short film tour is travelling across Saxony – with a program that moves, inspires, and invites reflection.
We’re showing six carefully selected films from the FILMFEST DRESDEN programme, telling stories beyond stereotypes – exploring queer lives, People of Color, and the wide spectrum of identities. It challenges expectations, shifts perspectives, and celebrates the colorful complexity of human experience.
In short: Diversity is not the exception – it’s the norm. And it enriches us all.
After the screening, we invite you to join an open conversation about the films, their themes, and your thoughts.
Free entry – donations welcome.
All films are in German or subtitled in German.
The tour dates 2025:
- 14 Aug Plauen – 7pm / Open Air im Lutherpark
- 21 Aug Freiberg – 6pm / „Buntes Haus“
- 26 Sep Löbau – 7pm / LÖBAULEBT e.V.
- 16 Oct Döbeln – 7pm / Café Courage
- 11 Dec Glauchau – 7pm / Club-Kino Glauchau e.V.
Programme 2025:
- QUEERE TIERE by Sookee (Germany, 2017), 4 min
- Music video
- HEART FRUIT by Kim Allamand (Switzerland, 2022), 20 min
- A warm summer night. Eyes meet in the library. Two men chat about a dating agency during their workout. A couple kisses. She bites him. Doubts creep in. The gaze in the library loses its magic. Still hopeful, they step into the unknown.
- I’VE HEARD A SIREN CALLING by Dylan Mitro (Canada, 2024), 12 min
- Nev is a young trans woman at the beginning of her transition. Living in a small fishing town, she struggles with isolation and the fear of reconnecting with the world she still loves – the sea, the waves... and surfing.
- HUNDEFREUND by Maissa Lihedheb (Germany, 2022), 19 min
- In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and ongoing conversations about racialized bodies in Western societies, moments of intimacy are often left out. But when the bedroom door closes and the world fades away – who remains in the room?
- MÖBELHAUS SEXY by Nina Hoffmann (Germany, 2024), 4 min
- A frustrated couple gossips about their neighbor across the street and casually throws a question out into the universe. When the universe actually answers, things take a wildly unexpected turn…
- GENDER REVEAL by Mo Matton (Canada, 2024), 13 min
- Rhys, always eager to please, ends up at their boss’s gender reveal party – along with both of their partners. The trans trio quickly realizes they’re in for more than they bargained for. How on earth will they make it through this
An event organised and supported by Genderkompetenzzentrum Sachsen and Filmfest Dresden.
In cooperation with Weiterdenken - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Sachsen