Melbourne Queer Film Festival is hosting an intimate community screening of landmark film, Jimpa, on Wednesday 13 May in partnership with Victorian Pride Centre. The screening will be followed by an exclusive live virtual Q&A with Olivia Colman, Kate Box, Aud Mason-Hyde and Sophie Hyde. Following MQFF’s Victorian premiere of Jimpa in November with multiple sell-out sessions – we’re delighted to bring you a special community screening of Australian filmmaker Sophie Hyde’s moving depiction of integer-generational queer relationships. Referencing significant historical queer figures and experiences in Naarm, Jimpa is a modern queer Australian family story for the entire LGBTQIA+ community. Enjoy an evening of queer-centred conversation with like-minded members of the local community at the Victorian Pride Centre, along with powerful performances of an Academy Award winner Olivia Coleman & Golden Globe winner John Lithgow. Film rating: MA15+ film. Accesibility: Closed Captions Event Details  Date: Wednesday 13 May 2026.  Time: Doors open 6:15pm, for a 7:00pm start.   Location: Victorian Pride Centre, 79-81 Fitzroy St, St Kilda VIC 3182.  Cost: $14 – $28 (plus booking fee) Food/Beverages: A bar service will be available during the evening. About Jimpa   From acclaimed director Sophie Hyde (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande), JIMPA is an uplifting multi-generational family story starring award-winning favourites Olivia Colman & John Lithgow.   Hannah (Colman) takes her trans nonbinary teenager Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde) to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, lovingly known as “Jimpa” (Lithgow). When Frances expresses a desire to stay with Jimpa for a year abroad, Hannah is forced to reconsider her parenting beliefs and the stories she has long told about her family. As Jimpa faces the difficulties of aging as a gay man in a generation that never expected to grow old and Frances grapples with the disappointment of heroes falling short of their ideals, Hannah learns to navigate the differing perspectives of her father and her child.   Told with empathy, humor, compassion, and joy, Jimpa celebrates the unique loves and challenges of a modern queer family across three generations.  

Melbourne Queer Film Festival is back with another FREE ‘Pitch Off’ event, showcasing our 2026 finalists of Pitch, Pleez!. THE DETAILS Date: Monday 25 May 2026. Time: Starting at 6pm and running until 8pm. Location: Victorian Pride Centre, 79-81 Fitzroy St, St Kilda VIC 3182. Cost: FREE. Running since 2019, each year MQFF invites filmmakers to participate in Pitch, Pleez! where they can submit their short-film idea, with a selection of finalists competing in a live ‘Pitch Off’ in front of an audience and panel of industry judges. Since the prize’s inception MQFF has awarded $75,000 to Australian LGBTQIA+ filmmakers to create short fiction films, documentaries or web series pilots. 2025 winning pitch, Flight Risk by Mohammad Awad, was shown at MQFF 2025 Opening night and has since gone to premiere internationally.  This year, each of our finalists will be given an alloted amount of time to pitch their proposed short-film, answer any questions from industry judges and meet their competition. At the end of the evening, the judges will deliberate and a winner will be announced. As well as a $10,000 cash prize to help fund their project, the winner will also recieve an All-In-Pass to MQFF 2026, the opportunity to screen their film at this years’ MQFF Opening night and the GLORY of being MQFF 2026 Pitch, Pleez! winners. Join us for a fun, community-centred evening supporting queer Australian filmmakers being held at an iconic LGBTQIA+ venue, the Victorian Pride Centre. Space is limited, so book your ticket as soon as possible MEET YOUR FINALISTS Chimera Director: Cat Hoang Synopsis: Chimera is a queer romantic body horror, following the relationship between Vera, a second generation Asian Australian, and Ash, her white lover. Their idyllic courtship transforms into a doomed nightmare when Vera’s desire to wear Ash’s skin leads to their cannibalistic demise.   Good People Director: Robert Sinclair-Ten Eyck Synopsis: A doctor offers a socially progressive couple the option to prevent their unborn child from being queer, forcing them to confront how progressive they really are.   Strange Devil Signal Director: Alice Lam Synopsis: Three friends running an amateur radio station get cursed, but try to power through it and make the most of their situation.   FLOODCAM Director: Sam Carson Synopsis: In the Australian sub-tropics, a tr*nny chaser cons his way into funding the vaginoplasty of a woman he’s never met. Meanwhile, an incoming flood threatens to wipe out the region.   Tantalising Visions: Queer Cabaret Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Forever Director: Mama Alto Synopsis: Acclaimed jazz singer, cabaret artiste and gender transcendent diva Mama Alto helms a non-narrative arthouse phantasmagoria jewel-box kaleidoscope short documentary that responds to the provocation: “at its best, queer cabaret holds the potential to envision the world as it could and should be.”