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The Official Selections for LQFF Vol. 3 are here! Join us on 14 - 15 June for a weekend of queer film, dialoguing with the makers, featuring our Brazilian programme with @cinelimite and standout works from this year’s submissions. Full programme coming soon… #LQFF2025 #filmandfamilytime

Join us for the third edition of the Lagos Queer Film Festival! We have a three-day program: offsite screening and kickoff party on the evening of June 13, Day 1 of the festival on June 14, Day 2 of the festival on June 15, 2025. The full program of the festival as well as registration details will be announced in the coming weeks. In the meantime, here is a snippet of what is to come! On Day 1, June 14, 2025, we are excited to present, in collaboration with Cinelimite (@cinelimite ), a program of recently digitized radical Brazilian queer shorts from the 1980s. At the height of the military dictatorship, a group of militant queer filmmakers began collaborating on Super-8 films using experimental documentary techniques to address queer issues in Paraíba, in the northeast of Brazil. Program: Closes, 1982, Pedro Nunes (@pedro.nunesfilho.9 ), 33’ Era Vermelho Seu Batom, 1983, Nós Também, 12’ Perequeté, 1981, Bertrand Lira (@bertrandlira ), 21’ Baltazar da Lomba, 1982, Henrique Magalhães, 19’ Closes (1982), by Pedro Nunes, features interviews with Brazilians discussing gay rights, interspersed with a romantic story of gay love that culminates in sex on a beach. Era Vermelho Seu Batom (1983), by Henrique Magalhães, examines stereotypes and discrimination within the gay community and the tensions between closeted and out men. Baltazar da Lomba (1982), by queer activist collective Nós Também and Henrique Magalhães, self-reflexively re-enacts the story of the first man convicted of sodomy in colonial Brazil. Finally, Perequeté (1981), by Bertrand Lira, is a more direct portrait of drag actor and dancer Francisco Marto. (Synopses by Cinelimite).

We are proud to present the official program for Lagos Queer Film Festival 2025. Get ready for two days of films from across the continents, intimate conversations with filmmakers, and an evening of connection and dynamic storytelling. You can now access tickets to the festival via our newly launched website, linked in @monangambee and @hfactor.co bios. Spaces are limited, so we kindly ask that you select just one day of the festival to attend. See you there! #pride #lqff2025

Last month marked eight years of hFACTOR… It started as a collective of four people working across art, policy and social impact with a shared vision: infinite possibilities of expression, creativity as a lifestyle, advancing notions of queer safety and the desire to shape the creative world into something more expansive, accessible and inclusive. That vision has evolved over time. hFACTOR has now moved beyond the people that conceived it, beyond production cycles, events and outputs. It now exists as a value system. Today, hFACTOR represents freedom, creativity and the power to generate new realities through words and practice. It can’t be turned on or off by activity, it’s a mindset that continues to evolve, articulate and guide. It’s a way of thinking, building and engaging with culture and it represents the freedom to Be and Create outside the limitations, expectations and the structures we’ve inherited. Culture isn’t fixed and it doesn’t belong to one group it’s made through participation, practice, revival, recomposition and our shared experiences; not ownership. The freedom to Be and Create allows us to shape culture authentically through both our individual and collective identities and this allows us to build environments that support and encourage our success. Watch this space for abundance labs, stories and workshops designed to Cultivate Abundant Minds 📈💵🌀

Join us this saturday for the film screening of Guelwaar, followed by a collective reflection and discussion. We look forward to hosting you. Limited tickets available. Link in bio.

We promised you more honey @ Honeypot Sess.3 this time we’ve gathered a sweet swarm of voices, instrumentalists, DJs, and producers; we can’t wait to have you for another cosy night in the pot where inspiration meets enjoyyyyyment 🤎🍯✨ Performances by: @celesteojatula @joyceolong.music @inioluwa_lomo @2raaaar DJ Sets by: @anna_the_anna @ayofawo @duttyyosa @kingnonsoduke @amahstudios Saturday, 20 September 8PM Ticket link in bio @monkeyshoulder

The installation for “The Day After the Night Before” is an evolving trope that features in Osione Itegboje’s work. In 2018, as part of an hFACTOR Collective ( @hfactor.co ) residency at M.bassy Hamburg ( @mbassy_hamburg ), a scattered bedroom created the basis of the “Queering Spaces” exhibition. The work questioned the nature of life in Lagos as inherently ‘queer’ or ‘unlike what is known elsewhere.’ Osione’s naval-gazing pieces highlighted a deeply inherent fragility, but always through scenes that were recognizably lived in, reminding us that art does not exist apart from the everyday—it must inhabit the same mess, intimacy, and contradiction we do. In this installation for FNB Art Joburg, curator Fabia Alabraba ( @_fabsalabs ) masterfully builds on this ideology, queering the art fair space and challenging the norm of what booths should look like. She insists that art is not something to be observed at a safe distance, but something that presses against us, unsettles us, and insists on presence—in the body of the artist, in the audience, and in the moment of encounter. Today is the last day to view “The Day After the Night Before” - Sandton Convention Centre, LAB Booth #M

NEW TRAILER 🚨: ‘THE HOUSE THAT NAIJA BUILT’ - an insightful documentary I shot and edited on the rise of the House Music scene in Lagos, Nigeria. Big up @complex_uk for the premiere! Follow @networkone1 for more content! #film #documentary #nigeria #housemusic

LQFF 2025 Festival Award Winners 🏆 We are proud to announce the winners of this year’s awards: ✨ Audience Choice Award: “Girl-Boy” by Ajay Abalaka @ajayabalaka “Everything Lasts and Nothing Ends” by Rete Poki and Nosazemen Agbontaen @nosamachi @retepoki ✨ Curators’ Choice Award: “Come Dance With Me” by Nwaọ @nwao.wav “Omooge Kampus” by Kayode Timileyin Olaide @oktimileyin A huge congratulations to all the winners, and thank you to every filmmaker, partner, supporter and the community who made this year’s festival unforgettable. See you next year! #lagosqueerfilmfestival2025

LQFF continues! A subset of the films from the festival will be available to watch online for a week, from June 30 to July 6, on our website (link in bio).

We are thrilled to announce our long-awaited return! Nearly two years have passed since we hosted Volume 2, where over 350 members of you signed up for a day of cinema, connection, and celebration, showcasing queer narratives from the diaspora and the visionary work of Nigerian queer filmmakers. As we prepare for this festival during Pride Month, we invite filmmakers from across the continent and the African diaspora to submit their works for this year’s screenings. Join us as we continue to amplify queer voices, share untold stories, and continue to redefine the cinematic landscape. Submissions are now open. Screening date: 14-15 June, 2025 Click the link in our bio to submit.

Join us for MASSE on Sunday January 5, 2025! We’re closing out the 4-day @qtopiaweek festival with an intimate gathering featuring guided meditation + dream weaving for the new year with @nigerianbuddah , readings + reflections with @fmaxfmaxfmax and an experimental music session + closing set with @ayofawo 🌀❤️✨ Serving food, tea and herbs! See you there lovelies! Register via link in bio