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The queerfilm festival Bremen was founded in 1994 with the idea of showing a few films to accompany the lesbian-gay “Herbsterwachen”. Since then, the festival has taken place annually in October and presents queer films to the local LGBTIQ* community and the interested public. Since its foundation, the festival has become a permanent fixture in the queer event calendar of the Northwest. The cooperation with other independent LGBTIQ* festivals in the QueerScope network ensures supra-regional networking.

For six days in October, the festival presents a diverse mix of feature films, documentaries and short films at Bremen’s communal theatre  CITY 46 , selected from current productions by our volunteer team. All films will be shown as Bremen premieres and in original versions with German or English subtitles. The festival’s supporting program includes not only talks with directors and activists, but also the great raffle with its charming raffle fairies*, the lavishly decorated queerfilm bar with its daily changing activist bar staff and the cosy space for lively and connecting conversations before and after the films.

A special award is the election of the cinematic audience favourite, which is awarded every year among the feature-length films.

We see it as an important cultural and queer political mission to bring life realities and challenges of the LGBTIQ* community to the big screen. Our festival program is put together by a volunteer program committee. In terms of content, we pay attention to perspectives beyond heteronormative identities, body concepts, and heteronormative sexual/romantic desire when selecting films. It is important to us to show different representations of different bodies beyond socially shaped ideas of norms. We would like to focus on perspectives from the global south, which rarely appear in queer cinema and where filmmakers struggle with more difficult production conditions for queer films. We pay attention to marginalized perspectives in relation to BIPoC and other people who are negatively affected by racism/anti-Semitism/gadjé racism (“antiziganism”) and who experience structural/institutional discrimination or exclusion based on their religious (dis)affiliation. Also, the question of opportunities for participation in social life and in the educational system is included in the selection of films. What perspectives are taken up in the film? Are people of different social backgrounds and incomes and of different ages shown?

Team #2

We are about a dozen film enthusiasts with and without personal LGBT*IQ background who work on 359 days of the year to prepare a queer film program. This includes (but is not restricted to): doing film research, viewing and discussing films (within the Bremen group, on festivals such as the “Berlinale” or with other festival teams), procuring movies, and making subtitles. The result of these efforts can be seen on the remaining six days of of the year, at the festival in October.

Want to join us?

We meet regularly on Thursdays. Anyone who wants to join us is most welcome!

Just send us an e-mail:

info (at) queerfilm.de

Thanks

The queerfilm festival team would like to thank the following groups and organizations for their support:

Funded by:

Media partners:

Supporters:

Accessibility

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

The cinema 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 auditorium 2 is through a side entrance via another room with the help of the staff. This way is not marked.

Admission is free for assistants/support persons, but seats for them must be reserved as well.

More details on the physical accessibility of the venue are available only in German and can be found under https://www.bremen.eu/visitenkarte/city-46–kommunalkino-bremen-ev-334600/

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 auditorium 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.

If you have specific questions concerning the content and content-warnings of individual films, please contact wasistdasfuer1film(at)queerfilm.de in advance.

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.

Funding and Donations

The queerfilm festival Bremen is not only made possible by the voluntary work of many film enthusisasts and the support of the CITY 46 team – we also depend on financial support to be able to present the high-quality film program our audience has enjoyed for more than 25 years. 

If you wish to fund our festival, you can do this in many different ways: You may, for example, place an ad in our festival program brochure or in our trailer that is shown before every performance.
Please contact info (at) queerfilm.de for more information or special arrangements. 

Donations are also much appreciated. Please write to spenden (at) queerfilm.de for more information. 

Submission

We no longer accept submissions for the 2022 festival.

If you’d like to submit a film for 2022 (deadline: May 31st, 2022), 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 2022: [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.

Subject: Submission 2022: [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

Team

We are about a dozen film enthusiasts with and without personal LGBT*IQ background who work on 359 days of the year to prepare a queer film program. This includes (but is not restricted to): doing film research, viewing and discussing films (within the Bremen group, on festivals such as the “Berlinale” or with other festival teams), procuring movies, and making subtitles. The result of these efforts can be seen on the remaining six days of of the year, at the festival in October.

Want to join us?

We meet regularly on Thursdays. Anyone who wants to join us is most welcome!

Just send us an e-mail:

info (at) queerfilm.de