One Fluid Night returns for its 7th edition with five days of queer cinema across London
One Fluid Night International LGBTQIA+ Film Festival returns to London from 7 to 11 April 2026 for its seventh edition, unfolding across three cinemas in the city and continuing to grow as an international platform for queer storytelling, emerging filmmakers, and cultural exchange. Following the ongoing development of the festival in London and the launch of its international edition in Paris, OFN enters this year’s programme with an even wider global reach and a stronger emphasis on feature-length storytelling.
This year’s edition presents 117 films from 31 countries, including 13 feature films, alongside a broad and layered selection of shorts, documentaries, animation, music videos, experimental work, student films, and episodic projects. The programme is organised across 20 screening blocks, curated by theme and genre to create a richer viewing experience that moves between intimate personal narratives, wider social realities, humour, political tension, and formal experimentation.
OFN remains a queer-led, volunteer-run, not-for-profit festival built as an independent space where filmmakers and audiences meet through cinema. At its core is a commitment to stories that are too often overlooked, and to giving visibility to first-time UK and international filmmakers, many of whom are being presented to British audiences for the first time. Rather than functioning only as a screening platform, the festival has developed into a meeting point for filmmakers, artists, activists, programmers, jury members, and audiences from different parts of the world.
The 2026 programme gives particular visibility to feature films. Among the key titles are opening feature The Consequences of Monsters by Craig Ford, opening short Bury Your Gays by Charlotte Serena Cooper, and feature selections including Amantes by Caroline Fournier, Unspoken by Piotr J. Lewandowski, Not Every Love Story Ends in Death by Bruno Costa, White Roses, Fall! by Albertina Carri, Sitore Xemaka Rati (The Winter Rain) by Dipankar Kashyap, Myrna’s Deal with the Dead by Andy Perrott, Old Guys in Bed by JP Bergeron, Starwalker by Corey Payette, and Jameela by Zainab Malik and Mina Isabella JafriMalik. The documentary section adds titles such as ¡Quba!, Queens of Joy, Dolls on the Block, and Inside the Oasis: The Story of South Florida’s Gay Mecca.
The festival also continues to build a strong awards identity. The OFN Awards span 22 categories across film and artistry, with the Best Fluid Story award remaining at the heart of the programme as the distinction that most directly reflects the spirit of OFN — originality, emotional force, and the freedom of queer storytelling. Winners will be selected by an international jury that includes Anca Vaida, Branko Tomovic, Chance Sion-Raize Calloway, Daisy Friedman, Pradeep Mahadeshwar, Oliver Popa, Hugh Ross, and Yvonne Potter.
Alongside screenings, OFN will host the MeetUp Hub in Soho before each evening programme, offering an informal space for filmmakers and audiences to connect. The festival opens with an invite-only Opening Party and concludes on 11 April with the OFN Awards Ceremony at Courthouse Hotel Cinema, followed by afterparty drinks and celebration at Bar Soho. Screenings will take place across Courthouse Cinema / Courthouse Hotel, Arzner Cinema, and BLOC Cinema. Tickets are available through the festival’s official ticketing platform.
As founder and festival director Lex Melony notes in the festival statement, this year’s edition arrives at a moment when queer visibility, solidarity, and cultural space feel especially urgent. That context gives the 2026 programme an added weight: OFN is not only presenting films, but reaffirming the need for a space where queer stories can be seen, supported, and shared without compromise.
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