To mark June, Pride month, and in the year that Queer Lisboa celebrates its 30th anniversary, we look back at some of the most beloved works of queer cinema from the last fifteen years. In collaboration with the streaming platform FILMIN Portugal, the festival presents a selection of 25 titles, covering a range of themes, geographies and genres, almost all of which form part of the festival’s recent history.

The programme explores the place of LGBTQIA+ people and communities in the world as well as individual stories of love, discovery and self-affirmation. The documentary selection presents chapters from the recent history of this constantly reinventing community, as well as profiles of artists whose biographies and works are rooted in queer culture.

Also worth highlighting is the latest in Portuguese queer cinema, such as Wolf and Dog, and in the short film format, seven titles that reflect the vigour of the aesthetics and narratives of a – largely – new generation of filmmakers.

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features

Seashore, by Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon (Brazil, 2015)
Don't Call Me Son, by Anna Muylaert (Brazil, 2016)
Being 17, by André Téchiné (France, 2016)
120 BPM, by Robin Campillo (France, 2017)
Las herederas, by Marcelo Martinessi (Paraguay, 2018)
Deux, by Filippo Meneghetti (France, 2019)
Las mil y una, by Clarisa Novas (Argentina, 2020)
Wolf and Dog, by Cláudia Varejão (Portugal, 2022)
20.000 especies de abejas, by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren (Spain, 2023)
Eat The Night by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel (France, 2024)
Plainclothes, by Carmen Emmi (USA, 2025)

documentaries

Les invisibles, by Sébastien Lifshitz (France, 2012)
Regarding Susan Sontag, by Nancy Kates (USA, 2014)
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, by Fenton Fox Bailey and Randy Barbato (USA, 2016)
Threshold, by Coraci Ruiz (Brazil, 2020)
Loving Highsmith, by Eva Vitija (Switzerland, 2022)
Orlando, ma biographie politique, by Paul B. Preciado (France, 2023)
Queer as Punk, by Yih Wen Chen (Malaysia, 2025)

portuguese short fiilms

Où en Êtes-vous, João Pedro Rodrigues, by João Pedro Rodrigues (2017)
The Bite, by Isadora Neves Marques (2019)
In Case of Fire, by Paula Tomás Marques (2019)
Tracing Utopia, by Catarina de Sousa and Nick Tyson (2021)
Your Name Is, by Paulo Patrício (2021)
Immaterial Girl, by André Godinho (2022)
Between Light and Nowhere, by Joana de Sousa (2023)