Review our Rules and Guidelines to make sure your script is eligible.
Please send the correct file of your script!
We cannot accept revised pages or new drafts after submission.
Please format your PDF file name with your script title and author name only.
Example: " Stronger Side by Ves Fries.pdf. "
3rd Edition OFN
In the world of cinema, LGBTQIA+ films are the kaleidoscope that reflects the vibrant colours of love, identity, and the human spirit.
🍿 Event
The third round of One Fluid Night (OFN), our LGBTQIA+ film event, wrapped up with even bigger fantastic results! We've expanded our awards to include Best Director, Best Short Animation and Best Short Documentary, alongside the existing three Award categories.
🎥 Films
👨🏻⚖️ Judges
For the film screening part of the event, we showcased twelve diverse short films: "Iced Glass" (Turkey), "Making Up" (United Kingdom), "5 Second Rule" (United Kingdom), "Three Wishes" (Ireland), "Heart Of Stone" (United Kingdom), "The Last Summer" (United States), "Handmade" (The Netherlands), "Tiefe Kümmernis " (Austria), "Becoming Queer Joy" (Canada), "Trans-Formation" (United Kingdom), "Coffee and Love" (France) and "Fortune Favours the Fantabulous" (United Kingdom).
Our esteemed panel of judges, including Jonathan Bouzali (Producer), Ufuk Gokkaya (Filmmaker, Lecturer), Wanja Mary Sellers (Actor and Filmmaker), Branko Tomovic (Actor and Filmmaker), Federico Portugal (Filmmaker), David Martinez (Executive Director of Raindance Film Festival), Carrie Kendall (Filmmaker and Festival Director East London LGBTQ+ Film Festival), Yorgo Glynatsis (Actor and Director), Deborah Espect (Filmmaker and Festival Director FilmPride Film Festival), Darwin Reina (Acor, Director and Festival Director L'HIFF Festival), Jennifer Handorf (Producer), Josh Farrell (Writer, Filmmaker, Lecturer) actively participated in the voting process for the "Best Fluid Story" award. They also individually selected the winners for the "Best Performance", "Best Director", "Best Cinematography", Best Animation" and "Best Documentary" Awards.
💃🏻 Entertainment
The entertainment segment featured incredible performances by James Daniels, Lidia Guerra, Matron, Sumner Brook, and Rhian! all gracing our new Christmassy theme Bar Lounge stage with great music bits by DJ Phil and all hosted by the incredible Debbie Del Rey.
🫶 Partners
We're grateful to continue our partnerships with Fashion Academy Paris, Booth&Bruce, Fetish Freak, Lady Ole, Big Fat Greek Baking, and Genesis Cinema. A massive shoutout to our incredible audience; your unwavering support fuels our passion for showcasing LGBTQIA+ cinema. Here’s to another successful edition of OFN, and to many more to come! Love you all!
The winners will receive an award and a certificate, acknowledging the hard work and creativity of the filmmakers, actors, and cinematographers.
AWARD "BEST SHORT ANIMATION"
"HEART OF STONE"
AWARD "BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY"
"TIEFE KÜMMERNIS"
AWARD "BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY"
Edmund Curtis for "MAKING UP"
AWARD "BEST PERFORMANCE"
Melissa McCabe for "5 SECOND RULE"
AWARD "BEST DIRECTOR"
Emmanuel Li for "Fortune Favours the Fantabulous"
AWARD "BEST FLUID STORY"
"MAKING UP"
MOMENTS of 3rd OFN
Official selection OFN Third Edition
Making Up
«Making Up is set in the late 1980s, framed within the gritty drag scene of London's east end. The short film stars BIFA award-winning Dave Johns, Jessica Ellerby and Carey Thring and follows Ted who is diagnosed with a hereditary illness. Ted must therefore reconcile with his estranged daughter, Cassandra. However, being a celebrated drag queen, paired with the bitter feelings Cassandra harbours over their past, presents a larger obstacle for Ted to overcome.»
Directed by: Ryan Paige
Format: Short Film
Key Cast: Dave Johns, Jessica Ellerby, Carey Thring
5 Second Rule
«As Billie tries to convince herself and her friends that she wants a birthday party, she seems to be stuck repeating over and over the same lie she’s telling herself»
Directed by: Ilaria Schaeren
Format: Short Film
Key Cast: Melissa McCabe, Rokaya, Elisa George
Becoming Queer Joy
«Tien is the first Asian trans man to publicly come out in the Vancouver, then, gay and lesbian community of 2001. In this profound and inspiring film, Tien shares his story as a trailblazing, racialised, transgender immigrant and his journey to discovering his true purpose in life — cultivating and becoming joy»
Directed by: William Stead
Format: Short Documentary
Key Cast: Tien Neo Eamas
Heart of Stone
«A statue magically wakes up after seeing a beautiful painting in an art gallery, and tries to reach her while travelling through the artwork»
Directed by: Justine Socha
Format: Short Animation
Trans-Formation
«A documentary about the life of Samuel Williams, a trans male»
Directed by: Joel Gonzalez Prades
Format: Short Documentary
Key Cast: Samuel Williams
The Last Summer
«In Nazi Germany, the young, closeted Ben fears for his own safety as he learns that the world he lives in is about to become even more dangerous for him and the boy he has feelings for, the openly gay Felix»
Directed by: William Stead
Format: Short Film
Key Cast: Weston Warren, David Benne
Fortune Favours the Fantabulous
«Eccentric, non-binary fortune teller, conjurer and runaway Fei Liu lives and performs out of a tent in the middle of the marshes. Over the course of three days, figures and phantoms of present and past penetrate Fei's tent and plague their subconscious, threatening to unravel their way of life and throwing their future - and grip on reality - into turmoil»
Directed by: Emmanuel Li
Format: Short Film
Key Cast: Herbie Baron, Mei Henri
Handmade
«Handmade is a film about the journey of coming out to yourself. Indigo is a trans man who has to come to terms with his experience of girlhood. He crafts a doll that symbolises the girl he was expected to be but then uses her as a vessel to hold those expectations for him so he doesn't have to carry them anymore»
Directed by: Anthony Granick, Nicole Lewis
Format: Short Animation
Three Wishes
«Three teenagers, wandering the streets of Belfast at night, ask themselves what they would do if they had three magic wishes»
Directed by: Will McConnell
Format: Short Film
Key Cast: Ellie McIvor, Tia Parker, Michael Townsley
Iced Glass
«The man who falls in love with the bartender in the bar he goes to every day is ashamed of his love. He fights with his feelings and decides to confess his love to the bartender»
Directed by: Mertcan Öztürk
Format: Short Film
Key Cast: Mertcan Öztürk, Nisa Nur Tetik, Onur Yavuz
Coffee and Love
«Sadomasocat est mouselover et vient de trouver son kif absolu sur le net... Une parodie fantasque des sites de rencontre et de leurs à-côtés»
Directed by: Werner Schnater
Format: Short Animation
Tiefe Kümmernis
«Ben (alter-ego: Tiefe Kümmernis) is a drag queen and art historian who sheds light on fashion and queer history on his tours through the prestigious Museum of Art History in Vienna»
Directed by: Shyam L. Jones
Format: Short Documentary
Key Cast: Ben -Tiefe Kümmernis