March 15th & 16th
2025
Lumiere
The East London LGBTQ+ Film Festival is a film festival created by Kaleidoscope to show sensational independent and studio 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?
10am - 12pm
Saturday red session
Mo<3Kyra
Debbie Hannan
13min (UK)
Abel Kabel & Siri Feil
13:30min (Denmark)
Turbo Dum
Layered Identities: Intersectionality and LGBT+ rights
Isolde Godfrey & Jess Harvey
5:56min (UK)
Waiting Funding, Dancing: The Crisis in Trans Healthcare
Alexander Eve Parnham-Cope
7:10min (UK)
A Tight Warm Hug
Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner
7:20min (UK)
Seasalter Road
Will Kenning
14:59min (UK)
Sofia Luz
10min (Brazil, Spain)
As leaves in the wind
Dust
Romy Robbin
11min (UK)
Kadri Nikopensius & Rebeka Põldsam
15min (Estonia)
The Night of Purple Horrors
12pm - 2pm
Saturday ORANGE session
Peach PRC - Like a girl does
Josh Harris
2:52min (Australia)
The Metronome
Laura Jean Healey
3:40min (UK)
left for dead
Tab Ballis
3:35min (USA)
Synergy
Emilie Bouet Conran, Honor West
5:35min (UK)
Transformation of acceptance
Joel Ryan McDermott
4:20min (UK)
Maxxie LaWow: Drag Super-shero
Anthony Hand
1h 30min (USA)
2:30pm - 4pm
Saturday Yellow session
For queen and gountry
Alejandro Alberola
38:22min (UK)
the last take
Brian Foyster
14:17min (USA)
4pm - 6pm
Saturday Green session
My Bear path
Albert Koomen
10min (Australia)
Out
Dennis Alink
1h 35min (Netherlands)
6pm - 8pm
Saturday Blue session
Talkin’ trash
Andreas Wessel-Therhorn
2:55min (US)
Good luck nelle
Carissa Thorne
14min (UK)
I hope he doesn’t kill me
Lyndon Henley Hanrahan & Nora Dahle Borchgrevink
13:32min (UK)
borrowed time
Hannah Berry George
5min (UK)
viva la vulva
Li Hsing Wei
12:07min (UK)
lay - by
Stuart Armstrong
5min (UK)
mafia
James Cleave
15:28min (UK)
the pansy of pickadee
Gus George & Paddy Morahan
7:41min (Australia)
Networking
Enjoy drinks based on some of this year’s films at our bar and mingle!
8pm - 10pm
Saturday Indigo session
GHOSTED
Ben Hirschhorn
5:40min (US)
Sunday morning
Xiao Jiao, Carmine Tiberini
2:44min (UK)
the spirits of penge
Steven Lancefield
19min (UK)
Dead Lesbians
Eva Justine Torkkola
12:52min (Australia)
Magic cottage
JOE EGG
24:30min (UK)
their universe
Jeong-gil HAN
16:59min (Korea)
10pm - 12am
Saturday White session
blue for a boy
Raul Guardans
1h 29min (Spain)
10am - 12pm
Sunday red session
175
Kasra Karimi
21:50min (UK)
Arlo
Logan Thomason
12:31min (USA)
Jeanne
Léo Holderbaum
29:47min (France)
Don’t tell me you love me
Joseph Tiernan
18:40min (Australia)
Hey you
Jared Watmuff
4:30min (UK)
Claude
Finola Hughes
14:54min (USA)
12pm - 2pm
Sunday ORANGE session
All the young dudes
William Stead
8:38min (USA)
burning world
Benji Human
12:19min (UK)
avant-drag!
Fil Ieropoulos
1h 32min (Greece)
2pm - 4pm
Sunday yellow session
longing
Courteney Tan
12:27min (UK)
hello stranger
Amélie Hardy
16:24min (Canada)
sister wives
Louisa Connolly-Burnham
28:00min (UK)
mommy
Manon Praline & Evie Snax
8:40min (USA)
Midnight on MSN
Elise Levy
22:00min (France)
Clementine
Sally Tran
14:30min (USA)
whole
Natasha Redmond
5:04min (UK)
4pm - 6pm
Sunday Blue session
Zara Woolf
16:00min (UK)
(Out of competition)
the beauty problem
Robert and Georgie
Clare Richards
16:14min (UK)
Our journey to pride
Benjamin Thomas Scarsbrook
1h 8min (UK)
6pm
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 Performance!
7pm
Entertainment
Frank Bertoletti
Queer icon & artist Frank Bertoletti will be putting on an exciting mixture of cabaret, comedy & performance art, we can’t wait!
8pm - 10pm
Sunday Indigo session
Arthur’s Whisky
Stephen Cookson
1h 33min (UK)
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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.
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.”
“ 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!”
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:
Best Feature Film
Best Short Film
Best Documentary
Best Performance
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!