Announcing Titles for Wicked Queer's 42nd Festival
It is almost time for the 42nd Wicked Queer Film Festival!
We are proud to announce some of the films that we will be screening as part of the 2026 WQ Film Festival.
More titles will be announced in the coming weeks and the website will go live very soon.
Save the dates: April 3rd to the 16th!
Sk+te'kmujue'katik (At the Place of Ghosts
Directed by Bretten Hannam (Canada 2025, 81min.). Mi'kmaw, English, French.
Filmmaker Bretten Hannam returns to Wicked Queer (Wildhood, WQ 22) with his latest genre-bending, otherworldly film. Hannam’s film follows two brothers’ journey to avenge the spirits that haunt them from their childhood.
For their third feature, Hannam has created a work that is not only a ghost story, but an interweaving of Mi’kmaw culture and the colonial history of the East Coast.
Erupcja (Eruption)
Directed by Pete Ohs (USA, Poland, 2025, 71 min.).
Directed by Pete Ohs, who also wrote, edited, and produced the film, Erupcja (eruption), staring a luminous Charlie XCX, is an idiosyncratic postcard romance with a casual, slice-of-life vibe that sucks you into a world you want to inhabit.
While on vacation in Poland, Bethany (Charli XCX) breaks away from a romantic itinerary planned by her doting boyfriend, Rob (Will Madden), fearing that a marriage proposal is imminent. Reuniting instead with an old friend, Nel (Lena Góra), the two women rekindle a uniquely combustible chemistry over the course of a few days in a chaste but burning tryst predicated on sapphic synchronicity and a mutual penchant for poetry.
La misteriosa mirada del flamenco (The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo)
Directed by Diego Cespedes (Chile, France, 2025, 109 min.).
Chile's official selection for the Oscars. Set in a dusty Chilean mining town in 1982, Diego Cespedes’ film is a poetic, absurd, and deeply human modern western.
11 year old Lidia is being raised by a community of trans women led by Boa, the matriarch, in a remote mining town. When several men begin dying of a mysterious plague (supposedly spread by stares) Lidia is confronted by ignorance and fear as the miners decide to exercise control of the bodies of the trans women (whom they adore at night and loath during the day).
On The Sea
Directed by Helen Walsh (United Kingdom, 2025, 111 min.).
Jack, a middle-aged, repressed man living a quiet life, has his life turned upside down by the arrival of a confident, itinerant deckhand in this slow-burn narrative whose restraint belies its emotional impact.
Dreamers
Directed by Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor (United Kingdom, 2025, 78 min).
A traumatized Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Britain meets a kindred spirit in Joy Gharora-Akpojotor's evocative story of resilience.
After living undocumented in the UK for two years, Nigerian migrant Isio is caught and sent to the Hatchworth Removal Centre. She hopes for a fair asylum hearing and is convinced that, as long as she strictly follows the rules, she will be released – even if her charismatic new roommate Farah tells her this is a naive mistake. Isio finds herself falling for Farah as they grow closer to their hearings. When her asylum application is rejected, Isio and Farah plot their escape.
Wicked Queer is a projects of the Queer Film Institute.