queerfilm festival review
The 2026 queerfilm festival left two programmes online, one for Bremen and one for Bremerhaven. They’re worth opening separately. The city changes which films you find, and the listings give you enough detail to look up a title again after the festival.
Pick the city before you pick a film
Start with Films HB for Bremen or Films BHV for Bremerhaven. The Bremen overview lists “This Is Ballroom” at CITY 46, a documentary by Juru and Vitã in Portuguese and English with German subtitles. Bremerhaven’s Passage Kino programme lists “The Beauty of Ballroom,” a different documentary, directed by Sze-Wei Chan. The director field comes in handy when two titles sound that close.
Use the programme to look up a film later
The 2026 listings give you the director, running time and screening languages. Keep those details if you’re trying to identify the same film elsewhere. The short-film evening has a separate listing with a rundown of the individual shorts. For a search across older editions, Frameline’s archive gives you festival programmes organised by year alongside a separate distribution catalogue.
Anabel’s take
I’d start with the Bremerhaven listing for “The Beauty of Ballroom.” The title alone could send me to the wrong film. I’d save Sze-Wei Chan’s name with it, then open the Bremen programme to see what was shown alongside “This Is Ballroom.”