As part of Madrid’s Pride celebrations, the 8th edition of Cinema Pride, the LGBTIAQ+ film festival organized by Fundación Triángulo, in collaboration with LesGaiCineMad and Cineteca Madrid, kicks off. From June 18 to 27, Cinema Pride turns theaters into spaces of memory, desire, community and social transformation, with a diverse and international program that invites you to look, question and feel.

This year, the season brings together premieres, revisited classics, documentaries, remakes and a powerful selection of short films that address identity, love, politics and resistance from plural, committed and deeply human perspectives.

🎬 Featured screenings:

• June 18 – Centro Joven de Alcorcón – 18:00h
  LGBTIAQ+ Short Film Series
  Ruth, Nocturnas, Sainte Agathe, Maitemina
  Intimate stories about bodies, desire, grief, transition and community.

• June 19 – Proyecto Chueco – 19:00h
  Te estoy amando locamente ( Dir. Alejandro Marín)
  A mother in 1977 Seville joins the LGTBI movement out of love for her son.

• June 20 – Goethe-Institut – 19:30h
  Coming Out (Dir. Heiner Carow, 1989)
  German historical film portraying the emotional and sexual awakening in the GDR.

• June 24 – Cineteca Matadero – Sala Azcona – 20:00h
  National Anthem (Dir. Luke Gilford)
  Queer communities in the New Mexico desert, rodeos, desire and freedom.

• June 26 – Cineteca Matadero – Sala Plató – 20:00h
  Queer Cinema for Palestine
  Queer Palestinian short films under the theme No Pride in Genocide. Part of the proceeds will go to filmmakers of the Queer Cinema for Palestine association.

• June 27 – Cineteca Matadero – 18:00h (Sala Azcona) and June 25 – 20:00h (Sala Borau)
  The Wedding Banquet (Andrew Ahn, 2025) + The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee, 1993)
  A double session that connects generations through humor, identity and family pressure.

• June 27 – Cineteca Matadero – Sala Azcona – 20:00h
  Jone, batzuetan (Dir. Sara Fantova)
  First love, parties, illness and courage in contemporary Bilbao.

Cinema Pride 2025 is committed to cinema as an engine for change, as a tool for expression and as a space to narrate other ways of being, loving and existing. A brave, committed and urgent edition.

🎟 More information at: cinetecamadrid.com and Fundación Triángulo and LesGaiCineMad channels.