The Divine Queer Film Festival (DQFF - www.divinequeer.it) is an independent film festival deeply entrenched in the Queer scene. It delves into the ever-evolving themes of gender, diversabilities, and migration. The inaugural Divine was inspired by the idea of harnessing the power of cinema to dismantle stereotypes, prejudices, taboos, and fears.

With an international perspective, Divine aims to showcase films, documentaries, and fictional works from around the globe, spanning cult, feature film, and short film categories.

In 2024, Divine will once again spotlight three interconnected themes: diversabilities, gender/transgender issues, and migration. This edition will be dedicated to Pippa Bacca (1974 - 2008), an Italian performance and feminist artist. Pippa, who worked across various media such as photography, collage, and embroidery, tragically lost her life in 2008 during a performative piece for world peace titled "Brides on Tour." Collaborating with fellow artist Silvia Moro, Pippa intended to hitchhike through the Middle East, culminating in Jerusalem. Unfortunately, she was raped and murdered in Turkey during the journey.

DQFF 2024 will be hosted in Barriera di Milano, the suburban neighbourhood of the city of Torino/Italy, specifically at Laboratori di Via Baltea (www.viabaltea.it), a vibrant multicultural center. The 8th DQFF edition is scheduled for May 17-18-19, 2024. The venue is wheelchair-accessible, and all screenings will include subtitles to ensure enjoyment for both deaf and hearing audiences. Admission to screenings is free.

Awards & Prizes

Jury Award (500€)
Audience Award (500€)
UCCA/ARCI Award (500€)
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Divine Award (Each year, the artistic direction presents an award to a film, institution, individual, or association that exceptionally embodies the Festival's vision in an original manner)

Rules & Terms

The deadline for movie submissions is 15th February 2024. The selected films will be announced on 15th March 2024. All movies must include English subtitles (in the formats of word/rtf/txt) as a minimum requirement, and the inclusion of Italian subtitles is considered an added value.

Films should focus on themes related to gender, diverse abilities, and migration. Please carefully review the detailed explanations provided for each topic.

Our inclusive perspective on human existence goes beyond the confines of the gender binary and cisnormativity. This encompasses experiences such as being transgender/transexual, agender, non-gendered, genderless, genderfluid, genderfree, or having a neutrois identity, among others.

In the context of physical and/or mental diversability, we aim to highlight the diverse abilities and talents of individuals with "disabilities," promoting these as sources that offer a new understanding of ourselves.

Our approach to migration encompasses physical, mental, economic, and geographical changes in places, bodies, souls, and nations. Therefore, crossing these "borders" and "barriers" lies at the core of our queer vision.

We hope that the nominated works narrate the crossing of borders with an evolutionary perspective.
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  • STORM DI SCOZIA

    As a filmmaker showing my film to a festival is a thrilling experience. This festival was disappointing because there was no organization of networking opportunity for independent queer Film makers. I have no regrets, but was underwhelmed at the time spent with a filmmaker who payed lots of money and time to arrive at the event. I have noticed in my experience each festival has different priorities. While it’s always an honor to be officially selected to screen, particularly in a queer festival festival, I expected more in the way of interacting with other queer film makers of which there are so few. That being said, I have no regrets and am grateful for the experience. Perhaps in future less attention should be payed to sponsors and more time dedicated to filmmakers? Lovely people though, and a beautiful city.

    April 2023
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  • Ingrid Gans

    I was very happy about the selection of my film "v****-manifest". Thank you. To the Divine team all the best.

    April 2023
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  • Tathagata Ghosh

    A great festival! The curation was amazing. Thank you for selecting our film "Miss Man". Hope to be back again with a new film.

    April 2022
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  • Tim Wolff

    I was very pleased by this festival! Thank you for including us.

    March 2019
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