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About Us

Join the team

The festival is mainly organized by dedicated volunteers who meet regularly throughout the year in plenary sessions and small groups. We are a fairly young team and open to all film enthusiasts who want to get involved. Every year, we look for new people who want to help shape the festival.

Joining us – that is:

  • going on an excursion to the Berlin Film Festival where you can take part in networking meetings and queer pitches and watch films until your eyes pop out—films that often don’t even make it into the program selection of cinemas or streaming portals.
  • actively shaping the festival program.
  • watching countless unreleased queer films.
  • participating in fun team events and becoming part of the queer community.
  • voting for our queer animal of the year.
  • learning how to create subtitles yourself.
  • interacting with our sweet audience as a social media and press contact.
  • running free for the venues’ decoration shortly before the festival.
  • meeting super exciting and appreciative filmmakers from all over the world.
  • and much more—the festival is what we make of it!

Association

The non-profit association queerfilm e.V. is the organizer of qff and provides the legal basis for the volunteers’ activities. The association’s board works closely with the organizing team and maintains contact with cooperation partners, institutions, and authorities. The association’s goal is to promote queer (film) culture and queer filmmakers. Queer life should be more visible in public and better networked within queer groups and organizations in Bremen and the surrounding area. You don’t have to be a member of the association to volunteer.

Articles of association (in German)
Membership form (in German)
Contact

queerfilm e.V.
c/o CITY 46
Birkenstraße 1
28195 Bremen
Germany
vorstand[at]queerfilm.de

Association register no.: VR 6411, register court of Bremen

Current board: Flori Sunkel, Malin Baßner, Farideh Eger, Friedar Gramentz, Swantje Schäfer

Awareness and support

Our festival thrives on an atmosphere in which as many people as possible feel comfortable. To this end, we kindly ask you to look out for one another. Everyone attending the festival is invited to feel responsible for treating each other with respect and acceptance.

Racism, sexism, homophobia, trans*phobia, queerphobia, and any other form of discrimination will never be tolerated at the queerfilm festival Bremen and Bremerhaven.

The queerfilm team will support you if you feel uncomfortable, if you are experiencing or observing any inappropriate behavior. Team members can be identified by their qff buttons.

Our awareness concept will be displayed at the CITY 46 and JUB venues during the festival and also shared on social media.

The JUB has a quiet room if you would prefer to retreat.

Additional support contacts

Rat & Tat Center for queer Life (German)
+49 421 70 41 70
www.ratundtat-bremen.de/Beratung

Broken Rainbow e.V. (German)
+49 69 43 00 52 33
www.broken-rainbow.de
www.gewaltfreileben.org

Trans* Counselling Bremen (German)
+49 174 413 95 42
www.transberatung-bremen.de

Pro Familia e.V.
+49 421 34 06 03 0 (Bremen-City)
+49 421 65 43 33 (Bremen-Nord)
+49 471 28 72 2 (Bremerhaven)
www.profamilia.de/en

Notfall-Seelsorge (German)
+49 800 111 0 -111 / -222 (protestant / catholic)
www.telefonseelsorge.de

Accessibility

It’s important to us to make the festival as accessible as possible for everyone.

The CITY 46 is partially accessible, and so is the JUB (Junges Theater Bremerhaven). Admission is free for assistants/support persons, but seats for them must be reserved as well.

The CITY 46 is partially accessible for wheelchair users and people with limited mobility. There is a fully accessible wheelchair entrance and lift. To use it, please inform the staff. There is a wheelchair-accessible restroom that is fully equipped but there is a 4.5 cm threshold to enter the room. The auditoriums have ground level access and their smallest passage widths are 88 cm. Wheelchair access for screen 2 is through a side entrance via another room with the help of the staff. This way is not marked.

The closest disabled parking lot is located one street over, in front of Bahnhofstraße 4.

For users of cochlear implants and hearing aids, there is an audio induction loop available in screen 1. Please contact the box office if you want to use it. Our movies will be shown in the original language version with German or English subtitles. We try to provide sign language interpretation into German Sign Language for as many panel discussions as possible. For this, please check the notes of the respective film descriptions.

The JUB (Junges Theater Bremerhaven) is also partially accessible for wheelchair users and people with limited mobility. There is a mobile ramp at the entrance. There are spaces for wheelchairs in the auditorium and a wheelchair-accessible toilet. For more information, please send an e-mail to bremerhaven[at]queerfilm.de.

If you have any other questions, a concrete need for help, or further ideas how we could make the festival more accessible, please e-mail us at teilhabe[at]queerfilm.de

We try our best to organize a solution for different situations. More ways to participate will be announced via our website and social media channels prior to the festival.

Submission

We are sorry but we can no longer accept submissions for the 2025 festival.

If you’d like to submit a film for 2026 (deadline: May 1st, 2026), please send a preview (online link or DVD) of your film to the address below. Include the following information and use the suggested e-mail subject.

Subject: Submission 2026: [title]

  • title
  • length
  • film info: documentary/drama/etc., queer/lesbian/gay/trans/etc.
  • country
  • year of production
  • director
  • language
  • subtitles
  • contact details

Please include press material and stills if available.

Address:

queerfilm festival Bremen
c/o CITY 46
Birkenstr. 1
28195 Bremen
Germany

or via e-mail:

info[at]queerfilm.de