It has been a week since our festival weekender in LAB111 and Rialto. As a community-focused film festival, we highly value the opinions and experiences of our audience. Therefore, we’d like to ask those who attended to fill in a survey (link is in our bio) about the festival. Please let us know your thoughts! 💌
Thank you in advance.
Love,
Team IQMF
IQMF weekender 1-3rd of May 💌
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We are still reminiscing about this beautiful weekend full of sun, thought-provoking cinema, art that activates and community. A huge thank you to all of you for coming and joining our mission to transform Amsterdam’s cinema scene into a platform for underrepresented stories, as we hope to cultivate empathy and encourage dialogues that open up our minds.
We’d like to use this opportunity to thank all of those who uniquely contributed to this weekender. Thank you to @nolimitsartcastle@butt_news and @foundationerwinolaf . Much thanks to @theyarnsisters_nl , @schmutz.cinema , @lasamericasfilmfestival , and the Queer Gallery.
In addition, we’d like to thank all of our lovely volunteers. And lastly, a big thanks to @lab_111 and @rialto_film for hosting us. It was a pleasure!
We cannot wait for the next edition; we hope to see you all again in December.
Love,
Team IQMF
Expo: Queer Gallery Exhibition
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As a part of our European project ‘Rainbow Rhythms’ and in collaboration with photographer Prins de Vos (World Press photo winner of 2025), we present the work of 7 international queer artists from home and abroad. The exhibition ‘In Touch’ explores how queer bodies are seen, presented, and read within the context of art.
Queer Gallery is an international platform founded in 2024. Prins de Vos.The platform was created from a clear need: a space where queer artists are not only visible, but actively connected to opportunities, audiences and collaborations across borders.
Read more on .
Come visit the exhibition in the souterrain of LAB111, from April 30th to May 10th.
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This exhibition was curated by @prinsdevos and our @elena.dec
New: International Queer & Migrant Film Festival scarfs! 🫧🫧🫧
A product that represents our vision: colourful, unique and bold, inspired by the vibrancy of Amsterdam.
Come get your scarf during our weekender in LAB111, from May 1st until May 3rd.
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Scarf designed by artist Una Jongenelis. Swipe right to read her bio. Find her on www.unajongenelis.nl or @unasoriginal
IQMF x Schmutz Cinema
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Schmutz Cinema invites you to step into a surreal amusement park of queer cruising fantasies in Parque de Diversões.
Directed by Ricardo Alves Jr, this visually lush film transports viewers into an electrifying, Brazilian carnival scape of pleasure—where rides, games, and fantasies blur into a single, sensuous spectacle.
Ready for a wild, whimsical escape into the world of cruising? Join us for Parque de Diversões—fasten your seatbelt and let your senses scream with delight.
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Tickets available through the link in bio.
If the world doesn’t accept you and your kind, trailblaze a world that does. Inspired by the Black and Latinx underground Ballroom culture of New York, Sun, Teddy, and Xyza create Ballroom communities in Southeast Asia as safe havens from homophobia, transphobia, color discrimination and H!V stigma. Sun integrates Ballroom into his creative language as a performance artist, while Teddy and Xyza journey to Ballroom’s source in New York City, meeting the icons and pioneers who are their parents from afar.
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Tickets available through the link in our bio.
This magical-realistic queer tale centers on experiences of hookups, group encounters and the borders between literature and reality. In this experimental film, Matias converses with literary character G.H. – a character from Clarice Lispector’s 1964 novel “The Passion According to G.H.”
This film is an abstract exploration, evaluating how to broaden one’s mind and s€x life and the intersection of these two. Ultimately, the characters of the film investigate how to blur the boundaries between themselves, as well as the boundaries within themselves.
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Tickets available through the link in our bio.
IQMF x Las Américas Film Festival
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In collaboration with Las Américas Film Festival, which highlights and amplifies the rich and diverse film culture of Latin America, South America, and the Caribbean, we are screening ‘Eu Vou Ter Saudades de Você’ (I Am Going to Miss You). The film is an indie romantic drama that follows a T4T couple who move in together and must confront their differences, featuring an entirely trans cast.
‘Eu Vou Ter Saudades de Você’ is also screening during The Las Américas Film Festival 2026, on May 15th, 18:45 at Filmhuis Den Haag. The festival takes place from 8–31 May 2026 in Den Haag. Find the full programme at https://filmhuisdenhaag.nl/laff
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As always, find your tickets through the link in bio 🍒📽️
DJ Night curated by TYS: IQMF Chinese Queer Feminist Day
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Meet in rhythm. Form in sound.
This night is about building space for fluid identities, shared presence, and unapologetic expression. For us, community isn’t a fixed label, but something that emerges in motion: between bodies, across frequencies, in the moments we choose to stay.
A lineup of DJs will bring ESEA–inflected sounds, weaving through electronic, experimental, and reworked cultural fragments. Familiar traces dissolve into new textures; boundaries blur, then reset.
Come as you are. Stay in the mix. Let’s reimagine what it means to be together.
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Stay after the last screenings for a drink and a listen in Bar Strangelove on Saturday, May 2nd 📀
“Who’s Street? Our Street!” by TYS - IQMF Chinese Queer Feminist Day
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To accompany their film programme, The Yarn Sisters present their textile archives exhibition. This exhibition presents three banners designed, created, and carried by The Yarn Sisters during various protest moments in Amsterdam between 2024 and 2026.
Threaded through streets and voices, these textiles move beyond calls for gender equality to hold a chorus of urgencies, anti-war, anti-genocide, and resistance to right-wing politics. Each stitch bears the trace of many hands, a collective labour of care, dissent, and making.
The work offers a glimpse into the socially engaged practices of diasporic Chinese queer feminists who lives in the Netherlands- where protest is not only an act, but a practice and a process, continually woven together and undone, at home and across borders.
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Find the exhibition downstairs in LAB111 during our weekender and in the week after.
The Yarn Sisters x IQMF: Chinese Queer Feminist Day
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‘Chinatown Cha-Cha’ is a documentary that follows the 92-year-old previous nightclub dancer Coby Yee, who decides to get back on stage again after joining the senior dance troupe Grant Avenue Follies. Together they go on a tour for the last time, bridging once isolated Chinese communities in the US, Cuba and China.
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Find your tickets through the link in bio.
The Yarn Sisters x IQMF: Chinese Queer Feminist Day
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Along with a friend, the Eindhoven-based artist Qiaochu Guo, Rotterdam-based artist Tianyi Zheng reclaims Mulan as a queer figure torn between martial existence and post-war domesticity, reflecting the heteronormative pressures defining their own lives. Mixing interviews, performances and lyrical travel vignettes, ‘Where Comes Mulan’ presents a piercing, deceptively casual illumination of history as a living, open project subject to constant revision and contestation.
After the screening, we invite the audience to engage in conversation through a Q&A session.
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Find your tickets through the link in bio.
