Madrid’s LGBTIAQ+ International Film Festival, known as QueerCineMad, is holding its 30th edition from 11 to 23 November and is doing so under a new identity: QueerCineMad. For yet another year, it will be the epicentre of diverse films with a programme that brings 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.
A 30th edition with an international focus and a diverse outlook
The programme for the 2025 edition confirms its commitment to film as a tool for social transformation, with award-winning titles in the world's leading film festivals —Cannes, Berlin, Venice, San Sebastian, Sundance or Tribeca— and new voices that extend the map of contemporary queer film.
Four of the leading films from the last edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival will form part of the 2025 programme. These films open new paths for queer film and reflect the diversity of outlooks, aesthetics and narratives that this 30th edition seeks to feature. These screenings build a bridge between one of the country’s most important festivals, bringing Madrid closer to some of the most powerful proposals that have appeared at Zinemaldi in recent years.
The Official Section will feature La misteriosa mirada del flamenco (2025) by Diego Céspedes and Jone, Batzuetan (Jone, a veces) (2025) directed by Sara Fantova.
The Documentary section will screen Eloy de la Iglesia, Addicted to Cinema (2025) by Gaizka Urresti, and the Special Screenings section will present Muy Lejos (2025), a film directed by Gerard Oms with a cast led by Mario Casas and David Verdaguer.
As its closing film, QueerCineMad will screen En el Camino (2025), a film by David Pablos that delves into a marginalised male world, portraying homophobia, loneliness, toxic masculinity and an uncompromising queer desire. It won the Ojito Award for Best Actor in a Mexican Feature Film for its main characters, Víctor Miguel Prieto and Osvaldo Sánchez, as well as the Best Cinematography Award for Ximena Amann at the Morelia International Film Festival in 2025.
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