Madrid’s LGBTIAQ+ International Film Festival, known since last year as QueerCineMad, is holding its 31st edition from 10 to 26 November 2026. For yet another year, it will be the epicentre of diverse films with a programme last year that brought together more than 110 films from around the world across more than 20 venues in the Community of Madrid, including Cineteca Madrid, Fine Arts Centre and Casa de América, among others.
Since it was founded in 1996, this event has become the natural reference point for Spanish and Latin American productions for the rest of the world. Its discoveries, subtitling and release of Spanish-American productions have made LesGaiCineMad a window for LGTBIQA+ film in Spanish for distributors, buyers, producers and international LGTBIQA+ festival programmers.
The change of name from LesGaiCineMad to QueerCineMad symbolises the natural evolution of a society, a language and an outlook. Three decades after the festival was set up, the term “queer” better embraces the diversity, breadth and freedom that define the community and the festival itself: a space that has always known how to transform itself along with society.
Recognised as one of Europe’s five most important queer film festivals in Europe and the largest and longest-running festival in Latin America, QueerCineMad is still a cultural and social benchmark, supported by the main public institutions linked to the Ibero-American LGBTIQ+ Film Network.
