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Hold the doors wide open, the queers are coming!
The sassiest festival of the year is back for its 24th edition. Every year, we feel the growing affection of the public: those who have known it forever, our loyal aficionados <3, and those who are discovering its incomparable magic for the first time. You are all welcome, darlings! The festival's bold colors, yellow and fuchsia, will proudly invade the movie theaters of central Brussels to offer a carefully curated program, extremely varied in terms of content, style, and desires... If you know what we mean! We can't wait to share Pink Screens, this anthem to creativity and queer freedom, with you.
The program invites audiences to question their own perceptions, broaden their horizons, and consider the experiences of those around them. Love, joy, pain, and pleasure in queer lives will be explored in a series of feature films, as well as in screenings of Belgian and international short films. The Queer Latitudes focus will allow viewers to see and feel the inner conflicts of people whose identities and sensibilities straddle two or more spaces and times. The punk-inspired Queer and Cheap focus will break the most conservative codes of arthouse cinema. It will show the wonders that can be created with a limited budget coupled with an enormous desire to express oneself and come out of the closet. Pink Screens is partnering with Europalia and, in the Hecho en España focus, is honoring this country with four feature films and a selection of fiery, passionate short films.
Don't forget that Pink Screens also celebrates visual art and performances by queer artists. The bar at Cinema Nova and the cellars at Cinema Galeries will be the venues for these events. There will be plenty of opportunities to chat and exchange ideas with the many guests who will make this edition of the festival unique. But also to celebrate together and sweep away the dullest social conventions! We look forward to seeing each and every one of you, no matter your background, to share in this collective adventure of films that will make you laugh, cry, and see the world differently.
Focus
Queer & Cheap
Self proclaimed weirdos, happy accident or passionate objects, these films made with little means reapproproiate the 7e art and open up new dimensions. Taking detours with shots filmed as a joke or volontarily exposining their stiches, they laugh at the way too clean and sleek cinema, emanicapte themeselves from the codes and reintvent them. Creative, audacious, uncategorasible, kitsch, camp and absolutely Queer and Cheap. Queer is the new punk! With Janine et Asog, but alse the irresistible inquiry of Mika ex Machina and the scronfull Renaître; we wish you welcome into Absurdity!
Latitudes Queer
Leaving, leaving behind what we know, trying to find ourselves elsewhere: this is the path taken by many queer people, whether by choice or by necessity. The focus “Queer Latitudes” explores these journeys, between migrations, visible borders, and those we carry within ourselves. While some discover the freedom to reinvent themselves (Molt Lluny), many face hostility and confinement (Dreamers). The short film session Si loin, si proches extends these questions through stories linked to the SWANA regions, where desire, memory, and courage transcend all borders. Other films in the program also resonate with the themes of this focus. Leaving a place and facing the unknown means carrying the past with you while searching for who you can become.
Hecho en España
Spain, land of Lorca, Picasso, Bunuel and Almodovar. Pink Screens joins forces with the EUROPALIA ESPAÑA festival, celebrating its 30th edition with a grand Spanish biennale. In addition to a series of short films ¡¡¡ En Español, porrr favorrr !!!, we present two heritage films: 6 trans women talk about their work as sex workers in Vestida de Azul, while in El Diputado, set in post-Franco Spain, a communist activist faces blackmail because of his homosexuality. Added to these are two contemporary films, La Mitad de Ana and Molt Lluny (Muy Lejos), each dealing in their own way with self-affirmation.
Queer Expo 2025
For this 24th edition, the Pink Screens festival exhibition focuses on the importance of communities. The 16 artists and collectives remind us how crucial it is to care for one another, to celebrate each other, to listen and tell our stories, and to work together to build new ways to represent ourselves and create spaces for reconnecting.
The diverse offerings invite you to take the time to rethink the bonds that unite us and perhaps create new ones.
Artists: Alix Onyx et Nepaank, Aude Wullus, Denitsa Ilcheva, Giuseppe Arnone, Jo Michiels, lamathilde, Lucie Bodart, Luna Petit, Manny Manster, Mathias Martinez, Nils Braxen, office, Oscar Mathieu le Bussy, Pascal Lièvre, Sufjan Valero, Tom Pavle Grbic
Awards and jurys
For the second year running, three prizes of €1,500 will be awarded to short films. On November 10 at 7:00 PM at NOVA, come discover these short films awarded by our three juries! A surprise screening that promises to be eclectic and full of color!
- Pink Screens Award for Best Animated and/or Experimental Short Film
- Pink Screens Award for Best International Short Fiction Film
- Pink Screens Award for Best Belgian Short Film
The three jury awards are funded with the support of the National Lottery and its players, as well as with the support of the City of Brussels.
A new feature this year: the RTBF Auvio Award will honour a Belgian short film. The winning film will be broadcast by RTBF.
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