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
Alex Eisenberg
5min (UK)
If This Were Purgatory
Honey Birch
5min (UK)
Pawesome!
Deborah Espect
1h 28min (UK)
1pm - 3pm
Saturday ORANGE session
Seahorse
Leo Tabosa
22min (Brazil)
It's Always Been Me
Julie Bezerra Madsen
1h 12min (Denmark)
3pm - 5pm
Saturday Yellow session
Until Tomorrow
Vincent Cooper
2min (USA)
I Need Somebody to Love Tonight
Kevin Kane
2min (UK)
What Remains
Christophe Madrolle
4min (France)
Oasis
Leonardo Martinez
4min (USA)
Binge
J.C. Heins
14min (USA)
The Fangs I'm After
Rebecca Chivers
3min (USA)
APNEA
Fabio Patrassi
12min (Italy)
Clam Diving for Beginners
Clara Marshall
18min (Germany)
Space Daddy
Stephen Carruthers
10min (UK)
Divine Intervention
Ravenna Tran
17min (UK)
6pm - 7pm
Saturday Green session
Fairview Park
Ellie Hodgetts
Aymeric Nicolet
13min (UK)
404 Still Remain
Ha-neul UHM
1h 43min (Korea, Republic of)
6pm - 8pm
Saturday Blue session
The Last Goodbye
Kailey Wolf
16min (USA)
Forgive Me Father
Grac Talbot
5min (UK)
The remaining Sundays
Manolo Pavón
17min (Spain)
Playground
Tayla Halfacre
10min (UK)
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)
Bart Everly
1h 37min (USA)
11am - 1pm
Sunday red session
Mx.
Wwenen Lusa
5min (UK)
If June never fades
Philipp Boukhors
Theo Carow
29min (Germany)
Goddess
Cyprien Clément-Delmas
1h 10min (France)
12pm - 2pm
Sunday ORANGE session
CLUTTER
James Card
12min (UK)
Lolita
Jorge Xolalpa
1h 30 (Mexico)
2pm - 4pm
Sunday yellow session
Cameron Richards
Charlie Tidmas
25min (UK)
We'll Go Down in History
Why We Pride
Natalie Scarsbrook
8min (UK)
QUEERTAWE - the documentary
Callum Bruce-Phillips
26min (UK)
4pm - 6pm
Sunday Green session
Bear Hanrahan
6min (UK)
Queer and Longing
Breaking The Plateau
Zara Woolf
5min (UK)
Paint
Callum Blue
22min (UK)
Stella Anyways
Yan Berthemy
17min (France)
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.
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!