Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest

⏰️⏰️ THIS IS YOUR FIVE DAY WARNING ⏰️⏰️ If you didn’t manage to make your submission before our April deadline, worry not hottie. There is still time! 🎞We are still on the hunt for sexy, sentimental, sickening (sickening-fierce or sickening-stomach-churning, you chose) films for this year’s Fringe! Queer Film Festival taking place this September in London 🍿🍿 THIS MONDAY(!!!) will be your last chance to have your films considered for this year’s festival so don’t wait. 🏃🏼‍♀️ If you’ve got something we simply need to see, head across to our FilmFreeway (link in bio) and be part of this year’s celebration of queer film at its best! 📽🫂 **If costs would be a barrier to your entering your film then please get in touch at [email protected] and we can discuss fee waiver.

⏳ ONE WEEK LEFT ⏳ We're still on the search for the boldest, baddest and fabbest films to screen at this year's Fringe!, returning in September 🍿 Join our roster while the doors are open 😘 Don't miss the regular deadline coming up NEXT MONDAY🚨 Head to our FilmFreeway, link in bio 📩📩📩 And for the chronically late queers, we see you! Get your submissions in by 18 MAY (at a tiny cost!) if you do miss the upcoming date 🙂‍↕️ ** We're happy to provide fee waivers, so don't let this stop you from sending us your gorg films! Email [email protected] and let us know <3

🚨🏳️‍⚧️ SUBMIT TO FRINGE! 2026 🏳️‍🌈🚨 Calling hot and talented queers of all genres 🎬 Get your film shown at the sexiest and fruitiest celebration, Fringe! is returning to London THIS SEPTEMBER 12 - 20 ‼️ Head to our FilmFreeway page to send in your film and for more info 😈 Link in bio 🔗 Early bird deadline is March 16 🥵 ⚡️ SUBMIT NOW ⚡️ Image description: A slide show of photos of people and posters from the previous iteration of Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Fest, with big bold text, "SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN". Final slide is a close-up of a hand holding out Fringe! stickers with text detailing submission deadlines, "SUBMIT TO FRINGE! 2026 / March 16, 2026 - Earlybird / April 27, 2026 - Regular Deadline / May 18, 2026 - Late Deadline / July 1, 2026 - Notification Date / on FilmFreeway". #queercinema #queerart #queeranimation #filmfestival #independentfilm

If you’ve got a hankering for some more film goodness, post-Fringe, we’ve got the perfect rec 🎧 🎧 We’ve been mainlining episodes of @baby.lame and @crystal.will.see.you.now now ‘s @campclassicspodcast ‘a thoughtful podcast about stupid movies.’

Diving deep into some of the most iconically over-the-top masterpieces of cinema, each episode sees the hosts take a different film and pick through its unforgettable scenes, unbelievable characters, and what makes the film HOT, when on paper, it should have been a hot mess.

🎃This month, they’ve been getting into the spirit of halloween with episodes looking at Scream, Buffy and in their latest episode which dropped TODAY, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark 👻 Swipe through to see some of our fave eps from their back catalogue and head to the link in our bio to listen + subscribe xx

💥Some absolute stunners from our @fringefilmfest session last Sunday - always a joy! Hosting and pics by @dev.oid 💥 ✏️ We’re back in the @richmixlondon Cinema Bar today with a micro poetry theme hosted by @dadvibesnstuff - as always it’s 2-5pm, pay what you like ✏️

And that’s a wrap on Fringe! 2025 🎀🎀 Whether you came along as a filmmaker, audience member or were one of our lovely volunteers THANK YOU for making our 15th anniversary edition as joyous, defiant and sexy as ever. We couldn’t do it without your support 💙💛💚🧡 If you didn’t have the chance to fill in our audience survey already, pls pls pls head to the link in our bio and let us know what did it for you and what gave you the ick - it really does help us a ton xoxo See you in 2026 huns 😘 Photos by: @_oh_yikes (1, 5, 7, 11, 12) @vitaglong (2, 13) @elishafall_ (3, 4, 8, 10, 14,) @gas_cannister (6, 15) @cyan_studio_12 (9) @maldo_filmmaker (16)

🌸 Gorgeous time last Sunday at @richmixlondon - hosting and pics by @dadvibesnstuff 🌸 🎥 Back again today teaming up with the awesome @fringefilmfest - as always, join us 2-5pm in the Cinema Bar and pav what vou like 🎥

We’ve been LOVING seeing all your gorgeous faces at the festival this week 😍 Take a look at some of our (best) bits so far to get into the mood for our big queer weekend that’s about to kick off 🎉 Want some recs for our @richmixlondon takeover this weekend? Here’s some of our highlights from we’ve got lined up to end the festival w a 💥 Tonight: This eve is all about the future - check out the future of trans filmmaking behind and in front of the camera in THIEVING ANGELS (6:30pm) or dive into how we imagine our queer futures with a fab panel in CONNECTING THREADS (6:30pm) before we all blast off into space together in CELESTIAL BODIES AND OTHER SPACE ODDITIES (9pm) 🚀 Tomorrow: Don’t miss @tgirlsonfilm presenting a rare screening of the shorts of sex worker, activist and filmmaker Mirha Soeli-Ross (5:15pm) or get a dose of 🔥poetry at I STILL HOLD THE ROCK YOU GAVE ME (5pm). Then head into the big top with CIRCO (8:30pm) or go into the night w us and some great queer music at Potent Portals and our afterparty (9pm) Sunday: Get your dose of analogue experiments with REELNESS (3pm) and have an end of fest with us and @thelovetankcic featuring a DJ set by @crystal.will.see.you.now (8:30pm) 📸 Photos by: 1, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13: @_oh_yikes 2, 7, 14, 15, 18: @elishafall_ 3, 16: @cyan_studio_12 4, 12, 17: @gas_cannister 10: @vitaglong

✨ Big news ✨ Crystal (@crystal.will.see.you.now ) from RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Season 1 is joining us at the Love Hub and @fringefilmfest Closing Party this Sunday 21st September! 🌈🎉 📍Rich Mix, Shoreditch High St. 8.30 PM - 12AM 🎟️ Free Entry ♿ Step-free access & accessible toilets. Don’t miss your chance to celebrate with us - and while you’re here, check out the many other free & queer events happening every day this week until Sunday. 🌟 Tickets via the link in our bio or queer health.info/projects/lovehub25 Crystal is also the fabulous co-host of the @campclassicspodcast 🎧 Give it a listen and make sure you’re following her on IG for all the glam, camp, and chaos. 💖 ⚠️ Plans changed? Cancel your ticket! No-shows stop others from joining. Repeat no-shows won't get future bookings. Design: @rkahwagi #LoveHub #TheLoveTank #CrystalDragRaceUK #RPDR #QueerEventsLondon #QueerCommunity #FreeQueerEvents #LGBT #DragQueen

THIS SATURDAY ‼️ TGirlsonFilm & @fringefilmfest presents a rare screening of Mirha Soeli Ross’ vital video art — fierce meditations on gender, desire, animal rights, and reproductive politics. Gender troublemakers rejoice! (pre-order Mirhas iconic zine retrospective published by @littlepusspress ) 💅 With a pre-recorded conversation between writers, and close friends of Ross, Morgan M Page & Trish Salah 🔎17.00 on 20th September @richmixlondon 🎟️ Book your tickets @fringefilmfest Stills from Gender Troublemakers (1993), dir. Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra MacKay

There’s loads of Fringe! fun left for this week but we’re already planning to close out with a 🌴 wild 🍃 film Join us for @santiagoposada ‘s BRIGITTE’S PLANET B our spectacular closing night journey with @brigittelgb , an icon of Queer Ecology in this vibrant and moving documentary celebrating the exquisite queerness of nature and the expansiveness of biodiversity. + stick around for our closing night party after too xoxo 📍 @richmixlondon 📅 Sun 21 September, 18:00 🎟️ via link in bio

These acts transfigure something that has no inherent sexual value into something invaluable, something unquantifiable, something that evades language. Auto Erotic Sublimation Sunday 21 September from 2-5pm at The Stage, Rich Mix Join Lxo Cohen, Anju Marie Kasturiraj and kane stonestreet as they explore devotion and deviance. Expect food mess, nudity, pain, endurance, wetness, breath, movement, grains of rice and salt, sweeping gestures, needles, ritual, low lighting. 📸 @feniakotsopoulou of @kanestonestreet 📸 @lxocohen 📸 @godsfavouritehorror