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Queer East Midlands Film Festival is an LGBTQ+ festival held at Loughborough University in the East Midlands. It is notable for welcoming filmmakers of all experience levels and for programming broadly around LGBTQ+ lives, experiences, and perspectives, with a recent emphasis on LGBTQ+ history. The festival showcases films across all genres and forms, and its regional setting and newcomer-friendly approach give it a distinctive place as an accessible platform for queer storytelling in the UK festival circuit.
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Last updated Aug 27, 2026
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