16 Filipino queer short films you can watch online this Pride Month

This Pride Month, celebrate Filipino queer stories through film.

These stories serve as important representations of queer experiences, reflecting the diversity, struggles, joys, and realities of queer Filipinos while making space for voices that remain underrepresented in mainstream media.

Here are 15 Filipino queer short films you can watch online this Pride Month.

Leslie, Germie, Benjie, Trixie (2025)

Four science high school students struggle to complete their capstone project—all while dealing with an oppressive principal, academic pressure, personal conflicts, and questions about identity.

where to watch: cinemata

i get so sad sometimes (2021)

In the small town of Pagadian, a gay teenager eagerly waits for a mature man to finally reveal his face after developing an anonymous sexual relationship with him online.

where to watch: juanflix

Yakap (2017)

Alee learns that the truth is loudest in the silence when an unexpected encounter alters her plan of coming out to her conservative mother.

where to watch: youtube

Ili-Ili (2024)

A pregnant mother, unsure of how to raise a child, arranges an interview with her two gay dads but fate intervenes when his dad suffers a heart attack. Her dad reflects on their family’s history, captured on an old camcorder.

where to watch: cinemata

Congratulations, DX! (2023)

After receiving an undetectable HIV status, Dexter finally shows up in a birthday party and reconnects with his friends, following a long and sudden ghosting in their milestones and lives.

where to watch: juanflix

Kung Nag-aatubili (2024)

While a socially anxious college student is having a hard time finding inspiration for his thesis painting, he meets a stranger in a casual encounter and an unexpected connection grows between them.

where to watch: youtube 

yesterday will always be yesterday (2023)

It’s the last day of high school. Three misfits: Mike, Jeremy, and Marie are tasked to edit the graduation video. As they review the footage, their batchmate’s video contains a confession that their principal harassed her. The group has to decide whether or not to expose the issue as each deals with their own secrets.

where to watch: youtube

Sisenta! (2025)

A newly-turned sixty-year-old woman who just obtained her senior citizen card reunites with a long-lost high school friend, sparking a journey of nostalgia, self-discovery, and rekindling romance.

where to watch: youtube

Si Astri Maka Si Tambulah (2017)

Astri, a 16-year-old trans woman, is in a relationship with 17-year-old Tambulah. Though unusual in their community, no one interferes. They survive on coins people throw as they perform their traditional dance by the sea. Everything seems perfect—until Sama Bajao traditions and an old pact require Astri to marry a woman she barely knows.

where to watch: cinemata, youtube

Saan Ako Pinaglihi? (2024)

Being raised by two lesbian parents, an eight-year-old is curious to discover how she was conceived.

where to watch: youtube

Lisyun qng Geografia (2014)

Before leaving Pampanga for good, Tib Apostol finds himself looking for his best friend Tric Torres back in high school. Guided by a map his best friend made for him, Tib attempts to visit each place around his hometown to retrace memories of his friendship with Tric.

where to watch: juanflix, cinemata

hundreds of year(ning)s (2024)

In a 24-hour salon, two vampire women with history look back on their centuries-old memories, before one of them gets married to a mortal man.

where to watch: youtube 

Alamat ng Isdang Kulay Bahaghari (2024)

When a group of elementary students chose to tell a local folklore Alamat ng Isdang Kulay Bahaghari for a stage play, their curiosity brought them investigating the river to search for the infamous fish, only to discover that the folklore is not what they were taught of.

where to watch: cinemata

Gawad Uliran: The Rise to Superstardom! (2025)

A middle-aged frustrated actress meets a producer that gives her an opportunity to fulfill her lifelong dream of winning a Best Actress award.

where to watch: cinemata

This is Not A Coming Out Story (2022)

After moving into his “safe space”, Dino encounters simultaneous events that would challenge his deepest yet most difficult desire–“coming out”.

where to watch: juanflix, vidsee

Love in the Ungodly Hour (2021)

A love story between two young men, separated after one of them contracted a highly stigmatized disease. Years later, the guy who abandoned his former lover due to that illness comes back in need of love and acceptance, which he failed to provide in their relationship before.

where to watch: juanflix 

While these 16 films represent only a fraction of queer Filipino cinema, they remind us of the importance of continuing to tell, preserve, and support stories that reflect the many realities of LGBTQIA+ lives. In a world where visibility can be both empowering and contested, queer films remain vital spaces for representation, understanding, and belonging.

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