SELECTED FILMS
PROGRAMME 01
A programme exploring queer desire as it moves through discovery, vulnerability, surveillance, repression and the pressure of being seen.
I hate Helen - is a snapshot of teenage life, a short film about the tidal wave of gay lust some girls feel in school and letting those feelings just wash over you. But our protagonist Priya isn’t going without a fight. She hates Helen, and she hates the way she is feeling.
When Cleo and Jade’s date turns sour, they’re left questioning; ‘is the problem the male gaze or the way they’ve been conditioned to react?’ Game Over looks at how it feels to be a lesbian couple constantly sexualised and threatened by men. '“Love or Hate. Beauty or Ugliness. Right or Wrong. GAME OVER asks you which side you’re on” - Ian McKellen
Saul confronts his own guilt and fear through dreamlike visions in his grandmother’s house. In his dreams, a mysterious female oracle suggests that the only way to free himself from his sin is by eliminating the “sinner.” His inner conflict intensifies as he remembers a loved one, leading him into a struggle between acceptance and self-destruction.
Tensions arise amidst the heat of a busy British Pakistani takeaway.
A hopeless romantic tries to figure out if her best friend is gay in the worst ways possible.
PROGRAMME 02
A programme exploring queer survival through community, memory, solidarity and the search for space to exist.
Poongodhaigal which means the woman who are the maiden of flowers. This film is transcendental dialogue between a garland seller whose husband left her and a trans sex worker in the busy streets of Chennai. Its a reflective dialogue on the society which put the Transgenders in the streets
In the 1950s Singapore’s transgender community began to settle in the Bugis street area. Attracted by the street reputation as « the Montmartre of Singapore » tourists and sailors from all over the world came to enjoy themselves until dawn, sometimes being seduced by trans women dressed like divas. In the early 1980s, an urban renovation project planned to demolish the area.
Budget Paradise follows Chester a Black, non binary painter as they search for space and permission to exist within their hometown.
Desire, Safety, Belonging.
When Cleo and Jade go on a date, intimacy and desire begin to surface, but so does the pressure of being visible in public. Their relationship becomes exposed to the male gaze, to threat, and to the ways queer people learn to read the spaces around them. Is the problem the gaze itself, or the way we have been conditioned to react to it?
At QUEERHUB’s first edition in May 2026, Game Over writer, executive producer and actor Kit Sinclair joined Louisa Connolly-Burnham to talk about the ideas behind the film and the experiences that shaped its development. Their conversation explored the tension around queer intimacy in public spaces, and whether that was something Sinclair consciously wanted to address from the beginning. They also discussed what queer audiences might feel seen or recognised in when watching the film, opening the conversation towards safety, belonging and the ways queer people experience intimacy beyond private space.
