These seven films chart intimate journeys across borders of place, body, and memory. Blending myth, migration, and resilience, they celebrate queer lives in motion — the courage to transform, to remember, and to imagine new worlds beyond the familiar.

Programme includes:

Velipādu: The Revelation
Dir. Jijo Jessy Kuriakose, 25 mins, India, Drama, 2024
In lush Kerala, a priest-in-training confronts faith and queer desire. “Velipādu: The Revelation” blends music, memory, and touch into a tender, defiant portrait of love lost and found.

I’m dyed in my Master’s Colours
Dir. and Performance by Samir Mahmood, 9:35 mins, Ireland, Experimental, 2024
Filmed in Galway and Dublin, this video follows a queer migrant’s struggle for self-purification, torn between tradition and identity, ultimately finding peace through Sufi wisdom and the poetry of Shah Hussain.

Son
Dir. Saman Hosseinpuor, 15:00 mins, Iran/Switzerland, Drama, 2024
Blistering sun rays beat down on a Kurdish village as a mother awaits a child’s return — one that might lead to forcing her to understand a new identity.

Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black)
Dir. Matthew Thorne, Derik Lynch, 24 min, Australia, Documentary, 2023
Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black) follows Yankunytjatjara man Derik Lynch’s journey from the oppression of city life back to his Anangu roots, seeking healing and performing Inma — a sacred storytelling tradition passed down for over 60,000 years.

Journey
Dir. and Performance by Luis Noguera, 3.55 mins, Ireland, Experimental, 2024
Journey is a video poem blending disciplines into a raw, celebratory chronicle of living 10 years with HIV — a punch of reality and hope against lingering stigma.

Not Just Another Pageant
Dir. Larry Tung, 14:45 mins, Thailand, Documentary, 2024
Dozens of plus-sized gay men from Asia and Europe gather in Bangkok for a four-day competition to crown the first Mr. Bear International, celebrating masculinity and brotherhood beyond body size.
Presented in partnership with our friends at Dublin Bears.

An talamh faoi gheasa – The Enchanted Land
Dir.  Pradeep Mahadeshwar, 10 mins, Ireland, Experimental, 2024 
An Talamh Faoi Gheasa / The Enchanted Land weaves an ancient Indian myth with the Irish language, exploring transformation, gender identity, migration, and the search for balance.

Screening as part of Queer Spectrum Film Festival