About the festival
Les Mains Gauches is a five-days festival of short films and artistic researches about our stories of struggles and identities, exploring our representations and their limits, echoing our joys, our fears, our friendships.

Les Mains Gauches is a gathering to watch movies, to party and to meet.

Labels and categories might be complicated to grasp and to identify with, but Les Mains Gauches remains a queer, feminist festival.

About us
We are ten left hands related by feminism, our queer identities and cinema. Day after day, we try to make films, to program them, to share them. Regarding a dominant homogeneous cinema, we are looking for films that accept their weaknesses, that step aside, that sometimes hesitate in order to understand us better, that are afraid of silence but help us experiencing it.

We are supported by a team of cinema lovers, allies and friends who always help and challenge us to share meaningful programs with the public.

IF YOU ARE HESITATING TO SHARE YOUR MOVIE WITH US, PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THE OTHER EDITION PROGRAMS ON OUR WEBSITE. ALSO, STAY AWARE THAT THIS FESTIVAL, EVEN WHILE CHALLENGING LABELS IS STILL QUEER-FEMINIST.

PS : the questions we are asking are just to make sure that people read the call and know that it is a queer festival festival, we are not expecting any normative definition on what queer feminist means :)

Non competitive festival

- Films under/or 50 minutes
- Queer directors and/or feminist perspectives
- Subtitles in English or in French

Overall Rating
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  • Tino None

    I understand and appreciate this meaning of this film festival, but the communication and PR was really not good.

    After selection, I have sent all the information they needed, including stills, poster, my name, and social media link.

    But when they published social media, my name posted was wrong, no tagging on social media. It seems like they didn’t even read the email. I put effort to preparing the materials, even spent extra time just to make a subtitle files for This festival. This was very disappointing and frustrating.

    I asked them if they could at least correct my name on social media, it’s been a month, no reply.

    October 2025
  • Élodie Martial

    Très beau festival, c'était super !

    October 2025
  • Ananth krishnan

    Thank you comrades for selecting my work, I certainly value the political cause ..

    September 2024
  • Hannah Koselj Marušič

    A big family with an open heart ❤️ Amazing people, film selection, food, everything was like a wonderful dream. Definitely coming back!

    September 2024
  • Louve Dubuc-Babinet

    a real gem, from the incredible team to the marvellous selection of short movies, thank you !!

    September 2023