Good news: the Pink Screens festival has just announced the dates of its next edition, in 2025.
Last year, the Brussels Queer Film Festival once again captivated Belgian audiences with its cutting-edge, committed programming. The programmers were particularly interested in the question of queer old age, a subject too often sidelined. What happens to our desires and loves as the years go by? How do our ties with community, family and our own bodies evolve? These questions were explored through a selection of powerful and moving films and documentaries. Three short films also won awards. Chico by Enzo Lorenzo walked away with Best Belgian Short Film. Du bist so wunderbar by Leandro Goddinho and Paulo Menezes was named International Short Fiction Film. Finally, Abdellah Taïa’s Ne jamais s’arrêter de crier won in the Animated and/or Experimental Short Film category.
Mark your calendars: Pink Screens takes place from October 30 to November 10, 2025
After an attendance of over 10,000 revenuerpersonnes in 2024, the festival returns this autumn for a 24ᵉ edition full of discoveries, festivities and emotions. For eleven days, Brussels will once again vibrate to the rhythm of queer cinema with a program of films, shorts and documentaries celebrating diversities of gender and sexuality. The works, opening and closing nights, and partner cinemas have yet to be announced. However, one thing is certain: quality, thoughtfulness and audacity will once again be the order of the day. See you in cinemas from October 30 to November 10, 2025?
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PINK MEMORIES: a dive into the history of queer cinema
New this year: in addition to the festival, the Genres d’à côté association is launching PINK MEMORIES, a new bimonthly event to (re)discover cult films that have marked the history of LGBTQIA+ cinema. The first screening will take place on March 26 at 7pm at the Aventure cinema, with the screening of Stanley Kwan’sLan Yu. In this melodrama about the complex relationship between two men, the director tackles the themes of homosexual identity and human contradictions in a Chinese context, where the characters are prisoners of their passions, social pressure and prejudices.
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