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Welcome to the website of QUEER-Streifen Regensburg.
Since 2011, the QUEER-Streifen film festival in Regensburg has been showing feature-length and short films with gay, lesbian and queer content for a week in the fall and awarding jury and audience prizes for the most popular films.
The 14th QUEER-Streifen Film Festival Regensburg takes place from October 16th to 22th, 2025 at the Kinos im Andreasstadel. We are looking forward to seeing you!
Programme and more information
News
- The winners in 2025 have been announced!
These are the winners of the 14th edition of the QUEER-STREIFEN festival Regensburg:
Most popular feature film
The non-monetary Audience Award for the best feature film goes to:
NATA PER TE (Born for You)
Italy 2024 | 113 min | Directed by: Fabio Mollo“Alba has Down syndrome and is given up at the hospital immediately after her birth. Thirty families reject her before the court decides to entrust her to Luca Trapanese. He is gay, a practicing Catholic, and socially engaged—and he is not afraid. Luca has fought many battles, he knows pain and has learned to transform it and break down walls. He doesn’t do this out of pure charity: Luca simply wants a family. And to defend this wish, he has to make a decision…
Based on a heartbreaking true story, the film adaptation of the Italian bestseller of the same name tells a story of despair and hope in the fight for equality and social tolerance. A film about fearless love that knows no boundaries.” [Cinemien]
Audience Awards at € 250 per short film programme, funded by
FEIL ARCHITEKTEN
TETH (The Nipple)United Kingdom 2024 | 14:00 min | Directed by: Peter Darney
With humor and lightness, this short film tells a story of identity, family reconciliation, and absurd moments—a refreshingly unconventional and absurd perspective on the topic of being trans.
Bingo
France 2024 | 20:00 min | Directed by: Fanny Ruwet
In love with a straight woman—with humor, heart, and a lot of emotion, this film depicts the familiar dilemma between hope, repression, and fantasy. Likeable, relatable, and very entertaining.
Stymulanty & Empatogeny (Stimulants & Empathogens)
Poland 2024 | 25:00 min | Directed by: Mateusz Pacewicz
A rich kid from the upper class regularly buys drugs from a young dealer—not without ulterior motives. When their families get involved, the two have to work something out.
prize funded by QUEER-STREIFEN Jury Award Best Short Film (750 €):
The jury, consisting of Luka Klotz, Nicole Litzel and Holger Wegner, awards the main prize 2025 to
Dragfox
Switzerland, United Kingdom 2024 | 8:10 min | Directed by: Lisa OttStatement of the jury:
With Dragfox, the jury honours a film that tells a story of searching for and finding one’s true self with great sensitivity, subtle humour and impressive technical precision.
Using lovingly crafted stop-motion technology, director Lisa Lee Ott unfolds an imaginative world in which a curious child, a stolen dress and a mysterious city fox become symbols of courage, identity and self-acceptance.
What makes Dragfox so special is its accessibility: the film is not only aimed at children, but appeals to people of all ages – from the youngest to grandparents. With ease, wit and a big heart, the director explores themes such as gender, identity and drag in a charming, understandable and deeply moving way. In this way, she succeeds in building bridges – even to those who may be encountering these topics for the first time.
The rousing music and the noticeable attention to detail make Dragfox a harmonious work of art that has been thought through down to the smallest detail.
Every moment is perfect, every image conveys emotion – carried by fantastically composed music that moves and inspires.
An emotionally touching, enchanting and at the same time powerful film – so valuable that you want to see it more than once.
Dragfox reminds us how beautiful and liberating it is to truly arrive at ourselves.
- Cinema Paradiso: WHAT A FEELING
In cooperation with Cinema Paradiso we’ll screen the movie WHAT A FEELING which was very popular at the festival 2024 and won the Audience award feature film. If you missed the film at the festival or want to watch it again, you’ll get the chance on July 27th – outdoors in the open air!
Craftswoman Fa (Proschat Madani) takes care of more than just the kitchen installations for her customers. She is an part of the furniture in a lesbian bar. Marie Theres (Caroline Peters) leads a completely different life. Her wedding day, which doesn’t go as expected, throws the well-to-do doctor completely off track. When Marie Theres is then almost run over by the self-confident Fa, she has had enough. Marie Theres is also full when she is brought home by Fa after a long night. She remembers nothing – did they or didn’t they? And how does this fit into a life that plays on all the clichés of a wealthy hetero family? Her life plan becomes increasingly unstable and conversations with friends and her daughter confront Marie Theres with completely new questions.
Sun, July 27th | 9 PM | Cinema Paradiso (between Proskestraße and Grieser Steg)
- QUEER-Streifen at Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg
The QUEER-Streifen will show a program with the winning films of 2024 and other favorites of the screening team at the Kurzfilmwoche (Short Film Week). The winner of the jury prize Daniel Gat will present his film SEE YOU ’ROUND THE BLOCK in person and answer your questions. So have fun with the short film highlights!
March 24
8:00 PM
W1 – TheatersaalMore information: https://www.kurzfilmwoche.de/programm/queer-streifen
- Festival 2025
For the 14th QUEER-Streifen Regensburg the time frame is now set:
October 16-22, 2025
We are glad to be able to welcome you in the cinema in autumn.
From now on to June 30, films can be submitted for the festival via FilmFreeway.
- The winners in 2024 have been announced!
These are the winners of the 13th edition of the QUEER-STREIFEN festival Regensburg:
Most popular feature film
The non-monetary Audience Award for the best feature film goes to:
WHAT A FEELING
Austria 2024 | 110 min |Directed by: Kat RohrerCraftswoman Fa (Proschat Madani) takes care of more than just the kitchen installations for her customers. She is an part of the furniture in a lesbian bar. Marie Theres (Caroline Peters) leads a completely different life. Her wedding day, which doesn’t go as expected, throws the well-to-do doctor completely off track. When Marie Theres is then almost run over by the self-confident Fa, she has had enough. Marie Theres is also full when she is brought home by Fa after a long night. She remembers nothing – did they or didn’t they? And how does this fit into a life that plays on all the clichés of a wealthy hetero family? Her life plan becomes increasingly unstable and conversations with friends and her daughter confront Marie Theres with completely new questions.
Preise gestiftet von Audience Awards at € 250 per short film programme:
STONE
United Kingdom 2023 | 13:00 min | Directed by: Jake Graf und Hannah GrafTess searches for answers after her deceased father turns out to be a trans woman. The revelation forces her to confront the reality of her childhood, which her mother concealed.
Queen Size
France 2023 | 19:52 min | Directed by: Avril BessonMarina actually just wants to sell her mattress to Charlie before she moves back in with her parents. But the encounter between the two women throws her relocation plans into disarray.
Chavo
Sweden 2022 |15:00 min | Directed by: Alecio Araci
A young Roma man who has been rejected by his family finds shelter for one night with an elderly food stall owner. He wants to make amends – and makes an unforeseen discovery in the process.
Preis gestiftet von QUEER-STREIFEN-Kurzfilmpreis der Jury (750 €):
The jury, consisting of Andreas Hammer, Elisabeth Kratzer und Emily Meinke, awards the main prize 2024 to
See You ’Round the Block
Israel 2023 | 15:00 min | Directed by: Daniel GatStatement of the jury:
This year’s queer short film programme was dominated by international productions, 19 films from 13 countries, 2 of them from Germany, with an equally wide range of themes and aesthetics. There was a lot of drama to be seen, occasionally also a little cheerfulness and humour, strong cinematic approaches, black and white, one-shots and historical films.
Eventually, we had to decide between two films that were particularly appealing to us. In the end, we chose a film that shows an early morning encounter between two people who must have loved each other very much at one time and yet somehow parted ways. The film shows in an impressive way how complex relationships are, how much we love each other and yet how we hurt each other emotionally again and again. With two leading actors who never leave us cold for a second. In this 15-minute one-shot, the director lets us look deep into the souls of the protagonists as an invisible companion. In strong dialogues, he shows us a relationship and conflict dynamic that alternates between reunion, affection and razor-sharp malice.
We would therefore like to award this year’s QUEER Film Jury Prize for this wonderful and stirring Walk of Shame to director Daniel Gat and his team from Israel with their film „See You ‘Round the Block“.
Congratulations!
