We return with a luminous collection of short films. Tender, defiant, and alive with truth. As Pride 2025 unfolds, we honour queer voices across continents, celebrating the joy, complexity, and beauty of stories that refuse to be silenced.
Watch these beauties on the big screen and join us for networking drinks from 7.15pm + special Q&A with the filmmakers after.
DANCE, THEN - DIR: PHILIPPINE VELGE WRI/ACT: KATE NEWMAN // Iris has been ignoring the death of her mother for too long. She hasn’t collected her ashes and the crematorium keeps leaving her pass-agg voicemails. Embarking on the journey from London to Bradford she has no idea that crossing the threshold of the M1 will take her on the ride of her life.
GOING DOWN - DIR: AELLA JORDAN-EDGE // Two sex workers booked for a threesome meet for the first time in the hotel elevator. Afterwards, it becomes clear that one of them kissed a girl and liked it.
WE'LL GO DOWN IN HISTORY - DIR: CAMERON RICHARDS // The story of TRUK United, a grassroots, proudly trans football club. Filmed over two years, it captures the team’s highs and lows on and off the pitch as they create a safe haven for their community in the face of rising transphobia.
MAN>CODE - WRI/PRD/ACT: RYAN WALKER-EDWARDS // An exploration of the intricacies and awkwardness of modern queer dating. Lucas, a computer techie goes on an ordeal when he invites Theo around for what he thought would be no-strings-attached fun, but it takes an odd turn when his ex-girlfriend returns home early.
BLUE VIOLET - DIR: JOSIE CHARLES // Blue’s gift preparations for her beloved Violet transform into something darker when reality picks up the phone.
A SYNONYM FOR ART: ANDRINIKI - DIR: KASEY L. MARTIN // A visual poetry on Blackness and trans identity, where tattoos serve as markers of self-expression, transformation, and the quiet revolution of being.
AN EIGHTH OF HIM - WRI/DIR: LEVI EDDIE ALUEDE // Over the course of a year, a stoic drug dealer in south London forms an unexpected relationship with a buyer, inside the safe sanctuary of his car.DEVI
DEVI - WRI/DIR/PROD: KARISHMA DEV DUBE // A closeted lesbian risks both family and tradition, as she embraces her attraction for her childhood maid, Devi.
QUEER COGNITION: A Season of Cinema Beyond the Binary is a curated series (May–August 2025) celebrating the complexity, resilience, and radical creativity of queer lives around the world. Spanning decades and continents, the season centres voices that challenge convention, reclaim space, and reimagine identity beyond binaries. Presented in the lead-up to Pride London, Queer Cognition brings together groundbreaking narratives and documentaries that resist erasure and ignite cultural memory, exploring queerness as a living, evolving force, rooted in history and defined by collective creativity.
Programme supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Network, funded by the National Lottery.
