21–26 Oct, 2025 · Bremen
27–31 Oct, 2025 · Bremerhaven
For over 30 years, the queerfilm festivals in Bremen and Bremerhaven have been promoting diversity on screen and queer visibility in everyday life, safe spaces, and fair, inclusive coexistence. Every fall for several days, we invite you to moving stories, motivating projects, and cinematic highlights about queer life from around the globe.
We provide a space for lifestyles beyond heteronormative identities and body images, far away from heterosexual desire, and socially conditioned norms. It is important to us to offer a platform for the BIPoc perspectives and voices affected by any form of discrimination.
The qff was founded in 1994 by the Bremen community cinema and is still taking place on its premises today. As a member of the nationwide umbrella organization Queerscope, the festival is organized on a voluntary basis and is open to anyone who wants to participate. Would you like to get involved or submit a film? Then get in touch with us!
Hit the lights…
…and wormly welcome to the 32nd queerfilm festival Bremen and the 3rd queerfilm festival Bremerhaven!
Are you as enthusiastic about earthworms as we are? Maybe because they can lift 60 times their body weight, making them one of the strongest animals in the world? Or maybe because their bodies feature both male and female sex organs and they have sex for hours on end – even without any chems? Or maybe because they process all the dirt chucked from their environment and make it sprout and bloom? There are countless reasons to celebrate the earthworm as our 2025 queer animal with you!
We have discussed, organized, and watched films until we were fully curled up to present you with an exquisite selection of queer films. Every year, we are delighted that our legendary short film evening is so popular. That’s why the Bremerhaven edition will not only repeat it at its ending day, but for the first time, even supplement it with a second one! The grand finale will then be a fabulous party! And in the days in between, by 13 playful, uplifting, and galactic feature films in Bremen and by 3 even more impressive ones in Bremerhaven you will be drawn into the worm hole.
How does our festival actually come about? Festival work allows for independent programming, enables excursions to the Berlin Film Festival Berlinale, and provides contact with exciting filmmakers. It spreads joy and gives you the chance to get involved and meet fantastic people. But it doesn’t happen by itself. Every year, we look for new members who are interested in helping to organize a festival from start to finish. The festival is currently in urgent need of people to join the board of the association behind the festival. Would you like to get involved either way? Then get in touch with us on Instagram, by email at info[at]queerfilm.de, or at the festival.
So, why is our work important? More and more EU member states are limiting democratic and queer freedoms, trad wives are haunting our Instagram feeds, tech companies are dancing to Trump’s tune, and German CSU’s Interior Minister Dobrindt is caught considering a compulsory register of everyone who has legally changed their name and gender. But we’re not going to let ourselves get bugged—or rather wormed! We are standing up against this and campaigning for safe spaces, love, and the necessary visibility of all possible ways of life under the rainbow. That’s why we don’t just show films, we also want to preserve and expand the space for the community. Let’s stick together and strengthen each other!
We look forward to an exciting queer film festival with you!
Bar and Audience Award
Please note that due to renovation work in the cinema, there will be no bar this year, unfortunately. However, we will try to offer you alternatives. Either way, you can treat yourself to drinks and snacks at the box office for a cozy cinema experience. This will ensure you have a relaxed end to the evening even after the films.
Let yourself also be enchanted by our sweet lucky dip fairies. Treasures big and small await lucky winners in the raffle.
Once again this year, the cherished audience can crown the most popular film with the audience award—voting is possible after each feature film!
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