International queer filma festival Merlinka (15)

Festival start: 07 December 2023      Festival end: 10 December 2023

International queer film festival Merlinka is organized every year from 2009 in Belgrade Serbia. For five days we screen short, documentary and featured LGBT-themed films.

Only gay, lesbian, bisexual, trangender, transsexual-themed films.

Award for the best short film
Award for the best short documentary
Award for the best documentary
Award for the best feature film
Award for the best animated film
Audience Award

The 15th International queer film festival “Merlinka” will be taking place from 7-10 December 2023 in Main Hall of Dom omladine Beograda (Youth Center of Belgrade) – Belgrade, Serbia.

The main competition program of the festival will present only short queer films from all over the world produced in 2021 and 2023 (with possible exceptions). The films will be competing for Dorothy’s Slipper Award and money prize of 1000$. The festival’s main program will be accompanied by three side programs: Queer documentaries, Queer Featured films and Retrospective. The main focus of this year’s festival will be the force that motivates LGBT people to continuously work on improving lives of other LGBT people through politics, activism, art, media…, but this is not mandatory for official selection.

We invite film authors, as well as film arts students, to submit their films. The content of films submitted should be compatible with the festival’s framework (must be LGBTIQ-themed). Submission deadline is September 1, 2023.

Merlinka is non-profit festival and is organized by Gay Lesbian Info Centre (GLIC) in cooperation with Belgrade Youth Center.