November 8 & 9

2025

Lumiere 

The East London LGBTQ+ Film Festival is a film festival created by Kaleidoscope to show sensational independent cinema made for and by members of the LGBTQIA+ Community. This festival hopes to inspire our youth community and raise important funds for the charitable organisation.

Held in Lumiere in Romford, The Mercury Mall, RM1 3EE

what’s on?

11am - 1pm

Saturday red session

Purvette Film Poster

Purvette

Alex Eisenberg
5min (UK)

If this were pergatory-poster

If This Were Purgatory

Honey Birch
5min (UK)

Pawesome film poster

Pawesome!

Deborah Espect
1h 28min (UK)

1pm - 3pm

Saturday ORANGE session

Seahorse Film Poster

Seahorse

Leo Tabosa
22min (Brazil)

It's Always Been Me film poster

It's Always Been Me

Julie Bezerra Madsen
1h 12min (Denmark)

3pm - 5pm

Saturday Yellow session

Until Tomorrow film poster

Until Tomorrow

Vincent Cooper
2min (USA)

I Need Somebody to Love Tonight Film poster

I Need Somebody to Love Tonight

Kevin Kane
2min (UK)

What Remains film poster

What Remains

Christophe Madrolle
4min (France)

Oasis

Leonardo Martinez
4min (USA)

Binge film poster

Binge

J.C. Heins
14min (USA)

The fangs I'm after animated film poster

The Fangs I'm After

Rebecca Chivers
3min (USA)

Apena film poster

APNEA

Fabio Patrassi
12min (Italy)

Clam Diving for Beginners film poster

Clam Diving for Beginners

Clara Marshall
18min (Germany)

Space Daddy film poster

Space Daddy

Stephen Carruthers
10min (UK)

Divine Intervention film poster

Divine Intervention

Ravenna Tran
17min (UK)

6pm - 7pm

Saturday Green session

Fairview Park Film Poster

Fairview Park

Ellie Hodgetts
Aymeric Nicolet
13min (UK)

404 Still Remain film poster

404 Still Remain

Ha-neul UHM
1h 43min (Korea, Republic of)

6pm - 8pm

Saturday Blue session

The Last Goodbye film poster

The Last Goodbye

Kailey Wolf
16min (USA)

Forgive me father film poster

Forgive Me Father

Grac Talbot
5min (UK)

The remaining Sundays film poster

The remaining Sundays

Manolo Pavón
17min (Spain)

Playground film poster

Playground

Tayla Halfacre
10min (UK)

God forgive me film poster

God forgive me

Kat Sigalas
16min (Greece)

8pm - 10pm

Saturday Indigo session

Velvet Vision - The Story of James Bidgood (and the Making of Pink Narcissus) film poster

Velvet Vision - The Story of James Bidgood (and the Making of Pink Narcissus)

Bart Everly
1h 37min (USA)

11am - 1pm

Sunday red session

mx film poster

Mx.

Wwenen Lusa
5min (UK)

If June never fades film poster

If June never fades

Philipp Boukhors
Theo Carow
29min (Germany)

Goddess film poster

Goddess

Cyprien Clément-Delmas
1h 10min (France)

12pm - 2pm

Sunday ORANGE session

Clutter film poster

CLUTTER

James Card
12min (UK)

Lolita Film poster

Lolita

Jorge Xolalpa
1h 30 (Mexico)

2pm - 4pm

Sunday yellow session

We'll Go Down in History film poster

Cameron Richards
Charlie Tidmas
25min (UK)

We'll Go Down in History

Why we pride film poster

Why We Pride

Natalie Scarsbrook
8min (UK)

QUEERTAWE - the documentary film poster

QUEERTAWE - the documentary

Callum Bruce-Phillips
26min (UK)

4pm - 6pm

Sunday Green session

Queer and Longing film poster

Bear Hanrahan
6min (UK)

Queer and Longing

Breaking the plateau film poster

Breaking The Plateau

Zara Woolf
5min (UK)

Paint Film Poster

Paint

Callum Blue
22min (UK)

Stella Anyways film poster

Stella Anyways

Yan Berthemy
17min (France)

The Fig & The Wasp Film Poster

The Fig & The Wasp

Sterling Marie Knight
5min (France)

6:30pm

awards

Join our award ceremony

During our awards ceremony we will announce the winners of:
Best Feature, Best Short, Best Documentary, Best Music Video, Best Student & Best Performance!

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2023

The Team

Special Guest David McGillivray

Awards Ceremony

a very Special Guest

In 2023 we were honoured to meet writer, producer and actor David McGillivray in a talk about his life and career.

The man behind an array of horror, controversial and light-hearted media; such as short film ‘Trouser Bar’, the first anthology of British Sex Film ‘Doing Rude Things’ and a cacophony of co-written comedy with and for Julian Clary.

David joined us for a screening of Trouser Bar which followed by an insightful talk about his wonderfully influential life. He was then presented with a lifetime achievement award for his contributions to cinema.

Joe & Jack Mixologists

Stop for a drink with our guest mixologists Jack & Joe who will pair your screen time with the perfect thematic cocktail!

An adorable team who really care about the films they screen and the filmmakers.
— Rebekah Louisa Smith
This festival really did make it all about the filmmakers, the stories and there were so many meticulous and clever little touches - no detail overlooked! Constant communication from Carrie which was also lovely. Well done and thank you for making us a part of it!
— Ryan Paige

submit your film for 2025

Want to see your LGBTQIA+ film on the big screen?

Watch this space for our 2025 programme. Submit your film via FilmFreeway for a chance to see your film played alongside blockbuster features on a cinema screen. You will also be able to compete for one of five awards too:

  1. Best Feature Film

  2. Best Short Film

  3. Best Documentary

  4. Best Performance

  5. Best Music Video

All submissions are subject to an administration fee, and films are independently reviewed via Film Freeway.

Click the image above to submit your film!

Contact the Festival Team