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PERLEN - Queer Film Festival Hannover
21st December 2025 // 6:30 PM
NEW: Queer Winterpearls 2025
The AG Kurzfilm - Federal Association of German Short Film has been organizing Short Film Day on the shortest day of the year – December 21st – with nationwide screenings for many years, this year under the motto: NOW!
The PERLEN team brings its passion for short film back to the big screen after the autumn festival and presents a specially curated program featuring 7 queer short films from around the world – fresh, diverse, and emotional. All films will be lovingly subtitled in German.
The stories speak of love and courage, of change and visibility, of what drives us to live, love, act, fail – and then get back up again.
Additional information about the short film program can be found under News or in the Winterpearls '25 section. For those in a hurry, the digital flyer is available for download here (only in German!).
PERLEN (Pearls), the Queer Film Festival Hannover, has become an integral part of Hanover's cultural life as well as for the state capital's queer community. Every year in autumn the doors of the cinema in the Künstlerhaus (Artists house) Hannover open for one of the largest queer film festivals in northern Germany with 9 festival days.
The Perlen cooperate with regional and national organizations, clubs and foundations. Sponsors and supporting members also support the PERLEN.