Queer Lisboa

About

Queer Lisboa is the sole Portuguese Film Festival dedicated exclusively to screening gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and transsexual themed films, a genre known as Queer Cinema

Each year, QL seeks to complement film screenings with a series of events, be they debates, conferences, lectures, performances, book and DVD sales, art exhibits, master classes, workshops, parties, and others, within or outside the Festival dates.

Awards

• Best Feature Film — €1,000.00
• Best Documentary — €1,000.00€
• Best Short Film — €500.00€
• Queer Art — €1,000.00€
• Best School Film — a non-monetary award

 The cash award will revert to the film director. When the film has more than one director, the amount of the award will be shared in equal parts by all directors.

An Audience Award for Best Film is given away in all three competition sections.

Rules

All selected Feature Films, Short Films or Documentaries, national and international, with

1. a queer theme,
2. produced in the preceding year or in the same year of the Festival or unreleased in Europe until the year preceding the Festival,
3. and that have not been commercially distributed in Portugal before the Festival,

are eligible for competition in one of the three categories.

QL considers a short subject any film with a duration lower or equal to 44 minutes, and a feature any film with a duration higher or equal to 45 minutes. 

Subtitles language: English

• Participants must complete an online Submission Form for each film submitted to the Festival program, and send a DVD screener to QL by post or courier service, or provide the Festival with an online preview of the film.

Premiere Requirements

No premiere requirement