Screening
Queer Opening Shorts
Thursday, June 19 | 19:15 | Burgkino
Celebrate Queer Visibility – at the Grand Opening of Queer Shorts Vienna 2023!
QSV is back – and we’re thrilled to open the festival with a vibrant selection of short
films that celebrate the power, beauty, and diversity of queer storytelling.
Screening
Queer Coming of Age Shorts
Friday, June 20 | 18:00 | Schikaneder
This program is about growing up queer — without smoothing the edges. The films follow young people who fall in love, push back, figure things out or make a mess of it.
Screening
Queer Gaze Shorts
Friday, June 20 | 20:00 | Schikaneder
A glance across the room. A stare held just
a second too long. A camera that looks,
and looks again. Queer Gaze is a program about vision — how we see, who is seen,
what it means to watch with queer intent.
Screening
Queer Love Shorts
Friday, June 20 | 22:00 | Schikaneder
»I’m feeling butterflies« – and not just because it’s spring. This short film block dives headfirst into the wild, wonderful, messy realm of queer love: from awkward
first dates to deep longing, from sweet glances to heartbreak and healing.
Screening
Queer Minorities Shorts
Saturday, June 21 | 18:00 | Schikaneder
This short film program centers voices that are too often pushed to the margins — stories of queer lives shaped by intersectional realities, complex identities, and sometimes loud resistance.
Screening
Queer Fluid Bodies Shorts
Saturday, June 21 | 20:00 | Schikaneder
A gaze that lingers. A body that slips out of frame. A gesture that means something else. In Queer Fluid Bodies, the screen becomes
a space where bodies are seen — not as fixed shapes, but as shifting forms, read and rendered through a queer lens.
Screening
Queer Porn Shorts
Sunday June 22 | 22:00 | Schikaneder
This year’s selection of the Porn Film Festival Vienna invites you on a journey through stories that celebrate the beauty, complexity, and diversity of human experience.
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In cooperation with Porn Film Festival Vienna
Screening
Lesbian Porn Shorts
Saturday, June 21 | 22:00 | Schikaneder
Explore the boundaries of pleasure, desire, and everything beyond with this compilation of films that capture the complexity of sapphic joy. We hope these stories will stay with you long after the screen fades to black.
In cooperation with Porn Film Festival Vienna
Screening
Wenn du Angst hast nimmst
du dein Herz in den Mund und lächelst
Sunday, June 22 | 18:00 | Schikaneder
Marie Luise Lehner’s debut film, multiple award-winner at the Berlinale and the Diagonale, tells the story of Anna and her deaf mother Isolde, and explores what it means to transform shame about one’s background into pride — a tale of affection, care, and solidarity.
Screening
Queer(ing) Austria Shorts
Saturday, June 22 | 19:30 | Schikaneder
Austria is queer — on screen, too. This retrospective brings together short films by a new generation of filmmakers who look at bodies, identities, and relationships from a queer perspective.
