AQFF: Queercore Bites will be held on Friday 14 November 2025 as part of Feast Festival’s Adelaide Queer Film Festival (AQFF).

After the success of UX: Queercore in 2024, this South Australian short film event is partnering with AQFF (launched 2024) this year to showcase the work of Australia’s (especially South Australia’s) queer emerging filmmakers.

SUBMISSION DATES
Submissions Open: Tuesday 11 August 2025
Submissions Close: Tuesday 30 September 2025
Notification Date: Saturday 18 October 2025

FEES
Just $10AUD!

ABOUT QUEERCORE
With origins dating back to the 80s (fashion’s gayest era) the subculture of Queercore grew as an offshoot of punk music. Challenging societal norms, exploring the nuances of the LGBTQIA+ community and creating another space for self expression.

Summing up a festival in one word is hard to get perfect, but we agreed that everything curated for this subset of film culture would always be queer-at-it’s-core. Whether its flavour is bi-core, ace-core, camp-as-frick-core, the aesthetics and creators always came back to the diverse and ever-evolving queer community.

Brought to you by Chronosonder Productions, two of Adelaide’s favourite Jasmin(e)s bring their knowledge and enthusiasm for film and events together to connect audiences with creators.

https://www.instagram.com/chronosonder.productions/

ABOUT FEAST
Adelaide’s Feast Festival is an arts and cultural event that brings together a variety of LGBTQIA+ performers, artists, communities, and audiences. The festival brings together local, interstate, and worldwide artists to create a unique experience. With a history that dates back to 1997, Feast has been and continues to be South Australia’s welcoming and safe environment for the community to express themselves.
https://feast.org.au/

Launched in 2024, the Adelaide Queer Film Festival showcases a weekend full of feature length comedies, dramas, documentaries, and animated movies.

https://feast.org.au/
https://www.instagram.com/feastfestival/

Awards & Prizes

“Special Ingredient Award”

As we all know it is very rare that one person is solely responsible for the creation of a film. Our industry is inherently collaborative and so many people put time and effort into making a film (especially in an emerging crew).

We value the discernment and skill of emerging producers, and so encourage each film’s producer to nominate a member of the cast or crew who went above and beyond - the MVP (most valuable player). Someone who they believe should be recognised, supported and invested in.

This award demonstrates the ethos’ of Feast and Chronosonder, highlighting that each role on a film set is valuable as it contributes to the diverse range of voice and storytellers.

Presented by The Piccadilly, The Special Ingredient Award is an investment into the next generation of filmmakers (no matter their role) to help them to continue to develop their craft and bring their future work to the screen by awarding them $1K cash for their next endeavour.

https://wallis.com.au/piccadilly/

Rules & Terms

Conditions of Entry:

AQFF: Queercore Bites (The Festival) will take place on 14 November 2025. By submitting your film (The Film) to this festival, you agree to the following:

1. All the information provided either through the online entry form or through email correspondence with Chronsonder Productions or Feast Festival is true and accurate. Please also ensure to notify if your email changes.

2. You either own the rights to, or have received permission to use, footage, sound, music, images, and all other contributions that are part of the screen work to the extent necessary to submit The Film to the Festival and if accepted, screen The Film at The Festival.

3. The Film has not previously been submitted to Queercore events in previous years (teaser trailers excepted).

4. The Film is under 20 minutes (incl. music videos and episodes.

5. The Film must have at least one Australian citizen or permanent resident in its key creative team.

6. The Film must LGBTQIA+ related either by crew, cast, characters or story.

6. Work In Progress submissions will not be eligible for awards and should only be submitted if willing to be presented at the event in the form of a teaser trailer.

7. All non-English language films must be subtitled in English.

8. Selection decisions are final and at the discretion of the curators. The Festival does not provide feedback on films and is not obligated to enter into any discussion about selection decisions.

9. You grant The Festival a royalty-free, non-exclusive, Australian license to screen The Film on 14 November.

10. You must notify The Festival or its organisers immediately if any rights in the film become disputed or a claim is made against you in relation to your film.

11. You must indemnify The Festival and its organisers from all claims arising from or in connection with the submission of The Film, or any infringement of any intellectual property in connection with the screening of The Film as part of the festival.

12. You grant The Festival and any of its affiliates (e.g. Chronosonder Productions and Feast Festival) a royalty-free, non-exclusive Australian license to use film excerpts, film stills, press kits and other promotional materials from the Film for publicity and promotional purposes in relation to the festival, including on its website.

13. The Festival reserves the right to program films that fall outside of the eligibility criteria under special circumstances.