Join DJ Baby Mauritius at this workshop where you will learn the basics of DJing in a friendly and accessible environment. Perfect for those who've always wanted to try DJing but never knew where to start.
Facilitator: Baby Mauritius (she/her) is a queer Leeds-based DJ and founder of the popular disco night "0800".
We're thrilled to be closing our festival with the award-winning documentary Kokomo City.
Filmmaker D. Smith interviews four black trans sex workers in Atlanta and New York City, offering an honest, entertaining, and unfiltered look into their daily lives.
This film is boldly shot in black and white, and creatively produced to go beyond a standard talking heads film. It is challenging, funny, thought-provoking, and an overall awesome way to bring LQFF 2024 to a close.
This documentary examines what horticultures look like when binaries such as nature and culture, human and more-than-human, body and environment are deconstructed in creative ways.
Interviews of eighteen LGBTQIA+ gardeners about their relationships with plants and the land give glimpses of gardening as a resource, a form of resistance, and as places of world-making through alternative queer narratives, spiritualities and grieving rituals.
Always an audience favourite: a selection of short queer films from Bradford, York, Manchester, and of course Leeds. Includes:
The Living Room Library (4m)
Graveyard Shift (27m)
Maskuline (6m)
Single Glance (3m)
Ticker (9m)
Your Heart Out (12m)
Stonewall Postal Action Network (12m)
A mix of queer short films, including:
Before Curfew (23m)
Piece by Piece (9m)
Colombine: Owning the Future (6m)
Transition (1m)
Patricia in the Dark (12m)
JOY (11m)
Ines is queer, single, and wants to become a mother. In Norway she meets the gay drag artist Mio and together they try to realize their dream of becoming parents.
This documentary tracks their journey over a number of years, from the initial idea and proposal all the way through the demands of raising a toddler. Both honest and unapologetic, Queer Mama is an intimate and realistic view into what it means to build a family.
To explore the many different facets of parenting while queer, we bring you a set of short films, including:
You are here (9m)
Seven Minutes (8m)
Come the Sun (5m)
The Butch and the Baby Daddy (6m)
A mix of short queer films, including:
if i put the skate over my head i become the ground (22m)
Freshwater Bees (9m)
The Secret Lives of Lesbians Cats (2m)
Queen Size (20m)
Homofónia (11m)
A poignant documentary about the first lesbian bar in Korea, which opened in the 1970s. It asks these questions: What kind of space did each queer generation experience in their youth? How was it connected to each other, and what kind of wave did these spaces cause in a person's life?
Through the memory of space, the filmmaker aims to convey those feelings to the space and time of Korea now.
Rüzgar Erkoçlar didn't plan to publicly come out as trans. A former famous actor, he finds himself under the media spotlight when news of his transition is leaked by a medical professional and hits the tabloids. He struggles to navigate this newfound notoriety while also working toward his own self-acceptance.
UK audiences will recognise many unfortunate parallels in the anti-trans rhetoric of Turkish media. Throughout all the struggles and barriers, Rüzgar's family support him unconditionally through his journey, including his quest for an ID that matches his gender.