The 7th Queer Screen Film Fest is ready to set your world ablaze with a diverse range of LGBTIQ stories across narrative features, documentaries, and shorts. Boasting 29 films from 12 countries, including 22 Sydney premieres and a focus on romantic films set to light your fire.

Opening the festival is the winner of the Audience Award at the recent Melbourne International Film Festival, 18th-century lesbian romance, Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Other films fresh from their Australian premieres at MIFF are the witty Benjamin from comedian Simon Amstell which closes out the festival, the sensual and intriguing End of the Century, and the tender documentary Seahorse which charts a gay transmans journey to birth his own child.

A highlight of the festival is the camp double feature of You Don’t Nomi that celebrates the trash masterpiece that is Showgirls. Revelling in all its hilarious flaws, it’s a must for fans of this all-time camp classic. The 1995 film itself will screen in a stunning 4K digital restoration! Don your finest “Versayce” for a night you won’t forget!

There is also a new film from Pedro Almodóvar, Pain & Glory, which stars Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz and 3 stellar Australian Premieres: Sidra Smith’s episodic A Luv Tale: The Series a sexy love letter to queer women of colour; Festival guest Laurie Lynd’s thought-provoking documentary Killing Patient Zero is a powerful cinematic exoneration of Gaëtan Dugas, the Canadian man falsely accused of introducing AIDS to North America. Same But Different: A True New Zealand Love Story brings love and laughs in a funny cross-cultural romantic comedy based on a real-life romance.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg!

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