Queer Film Festival Utrecht

Our world:

QFFU 2025 opens the door to a world where you are 100% free to be who you are and free to express yourself. Welcome to Queertopia. This is a safe space to (re)discover yourself, without having to think about the opinions, politics, borders, rules, or restrictions of others. Imagine: how do you want to express yourself? What would you look like? Who do you love—and who loves you?

But most of all, this edition envisions the world as it could be if we coexisted while embracing each other’s unique identities. In the journey of self-discovery, us queers are constantly forced to think beyond the limits of politics and society’s pressure to conform. It is a search for liberation—an opportunity to experience joy and find peace within themselves, even if only for a brief moment.

So this year’s theme is about the freedom and safety to explore without the need to explain why. During the festival, QFFU invites you into a mental and physical space, where you can experiment with who you want to be, introduce yourself again and again, and allow others the privilege of meeting you over and over. Here, we celebrate transformation. Here, curiosity is the currency with which we pay our interest.

Imagine and Design!

Imagination is not just individual. As an act, it is a powerful thought process that happens within your mind. For queer people, imagination might sound like a distraction from the fight for our present. It might sound as though this imagination implies an unrealistic break with the here and now—like by engaging in it, we naively ignore the struggles of our current-day. But QFFU firmly believes that creating a space where we are open to imagine, wish, and dream about what our lives can look like, helps us localize these contemporary struggles, fuels our fire to fight for our dreams, and makes room for their fulfillment, if even on the smallest scale. We urge you to imagine on a personal level, about your sexuality and gender identity and/or expression. On a relational level—who to love and connect with. On a societal level: what place is there for us? How do we create it for ourselves? What are we allowed to do? What aren’t we allowed to do? And how do we do it anyways? Let’s design our world together!