QUEER OPENING SHORTS´26

Queer Shorts Vienna returns with an opening programme that foregrounds queer visibility in all its complexity. Drawing from highlights across the festival, this selection of short films offers a first glimpse into the breadth and diversity of this year’s curatorial focus. Short films work through concentration and precision. Within a limited time frame, they create space for tenderness, urgency, humour, and desire. The selection moves across themes of love, coming of age, queer identity, minority experiences, and playful engagements with gender and sexuality — without reducing them to a single narrative. The evening is accompanied by a drag performance, expanding the cinematic programme into a live, embodied form of queer expression. Together, film and performance mark the beginning of a festival dedicated to queer voices from around the world. Join us to celebrate visibility, presence, and the collective experience of queer cinema. Hi Mom, It's Me, Lou Lou, Atakan YILMAZ, Turkey, 2024, Turkish, with EN subs, 21 min Shame (عيب), Hadi Moussally, Lebanon, 2024, Arabic with EN subs, 04 min Marrow of my Bones, Karly McCloskey, Canada, English OV, 2 min Is this the mansion I will live in?, Rafaelle Fillastre, Belgium, 2024, English OV; 6min Motion Sickness, Jottum Kok, Netherlands, 2025, Dutch, with EN subs,18min Gravity, Robotina, Italy, 2024, No Dialogue, 9 min Watching Over Infinity, Henrique Prudêncio, Portugal, 2025, Portuguese with EN subs, 16 min Where Are You From?, Stevie Vickery, Australia, 2025, English & Hindi OV with EN subs, 6min Prom Queer, Dylan Margerette, Fiona De Asis Cerio, Alamat None, Philippines, 2025, Tagalog with EN subs, 05 min Our Joyful Endings, La Fille Renne, Lucie Babayan, France, 2025, French with EN subs, 6 min