The International Queer Film Festival of Andalusia celebrates its 22nd edition
Seville will celebrate the International Queer Film Festival of Andalusia, Andalesgai from March 12 to 22, consolidating queer culture as a space of resistance and rights. Organized by Fundación Triángulo, the event once again positions itself as one of the key cultural spaces in southern Europe for LGTBIQ+ narratives, at an international moment marked by legislative setbacks and the rise of hate speech.
It’s not just a festival. It is a political statement from culture.
Under the implicit motto that queer culture is a space of resistance and defense of human rights, Andalesgai reaffirms its vocation: to convert cinema into a collective tool against the reactionary wave that is passing through different countries.
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A poster that speaks clearly: cinema as a shield
The image of this edition, developed together with the Sevillian agency La Huerta, condenses that intention. The poster shows a diverse crowd holding up a large shield shaped like a camera or movie screen to stem an avalanche of hateful words.
The design, made in collage technique with photographs of historical and current mobilizations, does not seek to decorate. Seek to position yourself.
Because queer cinema is not just representation: it is memory, community and a living archive of struggles that still continue.
Can cinema become a cultural trench?
Is the screen a space for defense against hate?
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Stories that cross borders and challenge norms
The programming will be deployed in different spaces in the city—MK2 Cines Nervión Plaza, Cines Yelmo, CICUS and Cines Avenida UCC—and will connect diverse geographies, sensibilities and realities.
The opening will be by Lesbian Space Princess, an Australian animated satire directed by Teddy Award-winning Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese. A science fiction comedy that, through surreal humor, dynamites patriarchal structures.
From France will come La Petite Dernière, by Hafsia Herzi, presented in Cannes and recognized with the Queer Palm. The film addresses the conflict between identity, faith and desire through the story of Fátima, a young woman who faces her own process of self-discovery.
Brazil will provide erotic and political tension with Ato Noturno, a queer thriller premiered at Berlinale 2025, while Dreamers will focus on the reality of LGTBIQ+ asylum seekers, telling the story of Isio in a detention center in the United Kingdom.
Desire, migration, power, clandestinity, faith, survival. Cinema as a mirror and as a complaint.
Chemsex, education and community
One of the most necessary moments will be the screening of the documentary Chemsex, directed by Emma Delmar and produced by CESIDA. The film addresses this reality from an intimate perspective, avoiding sensationalism, and opens a space for conversation about health, risks and harm reduction.
After the screening there will be a discussion. Because Andalesgai doesn’t just want to project stories: it wants to generate dialogue.
The festival also reinforces its educational dimension with Team Antibullying, an initiative in which more than 800 students will participate in audiovisual dynamics to work on diversity and bullying prevention.
If hate is learned, so is respect.
Short films, youth and new voices
The short film will once again be the backbone of the festival with thematic sessions dedicated to lesbian and bisexual women, gay and bisexual men and trans realities.
In addition, the Express Queer Microshorts Workshop will allow young people between 16 and 25 years old to create and project their own pieces within the official programming.
It’s not just about showing cinema. It’s about generating relief.
Celebrating is also resisting
The festive dimension will come with the Grotesca Queer Palomitera session, where camp, excess and the drag universe will mix in a performative experience that remembers something fundamental: celebration is also political.
Because existing, narrating and occupying the screen continues to be an act of affirmation.
More than two decades expanding queer space
With 22 editions under its belt, Andalesgai not only shows films. It expands the margin of what is possible in the Andalusian cultural imagination.
Each full room is a response to silence.
Each projected story is a form of memory.
Every conversation shared is community.
In times where some try to erase identities, queer cinema insists on showing them in their own light.
