Brisbane Queer Film Festival 2021

Overview

In 2020, before Monsoon made cinema audiences swoon en masse, it screened at the Brisbane Queer Film Festival first. The same applies to Aussie teen rom-com Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie's Dead Aunt), too. So, if you're eager to see some of 2021's queer movie highlights well before they reach general release, then you'd best make a date with this year's BQFF.

Running from Thursday, March 11–Sunday, March 21, BQFF will unleash a jam-packed 11-day program at New Farm Cinemas, all to celebrate the fest's 22nd year. Expect star-studded gems, the latest works from top directors, bold debuts from first-timers and everything in-between, all as part of a lineup that spans 20 features and three different shorts sessions.

From that lengthy selection, standouts include the The World to Come, a frontier romance featuring Katherine Waterston (The Third Day) and Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman); German drama No Hard Feelings, which explores queer immigrant life; British thriller Make Up, as set in a seaside caravan park; and Sublet, the new film from acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox. There's also opening night's I Carry You With Me, which unfurls a romance throughout Mexico across several decades — and the Australian-made The Greenhouse, which ponders a time-travel scenario.

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