The list below offers an admittedly incomplete list of videos focused on LGBTQ themes that come from Eastern Europe and Eurasia. It is sorted by countries and is followed by an overview of queer film festivals in the region. At the end of the page, you will find a link to a Google Document, where you can add resources not listed here that you think will be of help to your fellow scholars and colleagues teaching queer history and culture of the region.

ALBANIA

The Struggle of Being Gay in Albania (2019)
Vice News documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7fQZghwEHE)

Skandal (2014), dir. Elton Baxhaku and Eriona Çami
(first ever long documentary about the LGBT movement in Albania), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3984306/ 

ARMENIA

Listen to Me: Untold Stories Beyond Hate (2016)/ «Լսիր ինձ» չպատմված պատմություններ ատելությունից անդին (original title), dir. Gagik Ghazerah (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7015712/; https://documentary.pinkarmenia.org/?lang=en)

AZERBAIJAN

Sebastian (2017), dir. Samad Ismayilov
(documentary about a transgender man from Azerbaijan in the USA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwDm-bmD0qg&ab_channel=MinorityAzerbaijan) 

BELARUS

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BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA

Go West (2005), dir. Ahmed Imamovic (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426470/)

BULGARIA

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CROATIA

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CZECH REPUBLIC

8 hlav sílenství (2017), dir. Marta Nováková (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3025774/)

The Country Teacher (2008)/ Venkovský ucitel (original title), dir. Bohdan Sláma (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1284526/)

Body Without Soul (1996)/ Telo bez duse (original title), dir. Wiktor Grodecki (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115722/)

ESTONIA

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GEORGIA

And Then We Danced (2019), dir. Levan Akin (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8963708/)

HUNGARY 

Land of Storms (2014)/ Viharsarok (original title), dir. Ádám Császi (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2474310/)

Coming out (2013), dir. Dénes Orosz (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3059638/) 

Secret Years (2009)/Eltitkolt évek (original title), dir. Mária Takács (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4063842)

Another Way (1982)/Egymásra nézve (original title), dir. Károly Makk (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083872)

KAZAKHSTAN

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KOSOVO

The Marriage (2017), dir. Blerta Zeqiri (https://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/the-marriage-review-1202631053/)

KYRGYZSTAN

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LATVIA

homo@LV (2011), dir. Kaspars Goba (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1833133)

LITHUANIA

The Lawyer (2020)/Advokatas (original title), dir. Romas Zabarauskas (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11374498)

You Can’t Escape Lithuania (2016) / Nuo Lietuvos nepabėgsi (original title), dir. Romas Zabarauskas (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5281018)

The Summer of Sangaile (2015) / Sangailes vasara (original title), dir. Alante Kavaite (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2994832/)

We Can Be Gay Today: Baltic Pride 2013 (2014), dir. François Message and Nathalie Sibille (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4205528)

Porno Melodrama: Love and Death in Lithuania, the Country of Trauma (2011), dir. Romas Zabarauskas (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1825111)

MOLDOVA

In the Frame (2018) / В рамках (original title), dir. Ion Gnatiuc and Artem Zavadovskiy (https://artdoc.media/en/movie/in_the_frame_2018_17/; interview with one of the directors: https://newsmaker.md/rus/novosti/skazali-chto-moldavskij-zritel-negotov-smotret-takoj-film-intervyu-nmsvideokhudozhnikom-artemom-zavadovskim/)

MONTENEGRO

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NORTH MACEDONIA

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POLAND

How LGBT+ Youth in Warsaw are Fighting for a ‘Polish Stonewall’ | i-D
(short documentary, 2020), Director/Producer – Isolde Penwarden (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAeprvNfaKE&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2RfIi3DULKliTXGLxrkW0FA5mrJ8dqH-DQZjgYkV_DYsZ-M5IF2iZMKUQ&ab_channel=i-D) 

Control/Kontrola (2018)
(first LGBTQ+ Polish webseries) (link to first episode and season playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tvUobbVJJI&list=PLtmzI8j0X2msB_5ScxEIHO9krn_aGMNeW) 

Floating Skyscrapers (2013) / Plynace wiezowce (original title), dir. Tomasz Wasilewski (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2776106/)

In the Name Of (2013)/ W imie… (original title), dir. Malgorzata Szumowska (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2650642/)

Suicide Room (2011) / Sala samobójców (original title), dir. Jan Komasa (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1808454/)

ROMANIA

After School (2017), dir. Alexandru Zepciuc (short film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkCbd3ue1Kw&ab_channel=AlexandruZepciuc

Soldiers: Story from Ferentari (2017) / Soldatii. Poveste din Ferentari (original title), dir. Ivana Mladenovic (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7262052/) 

Beyond the Hills (2012) / Dupa dealuri (original title), dir. Cristian Mungiu (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2258281/)

Love Sick (2006) / Legãturi bolnãvicioase (original title), dir. Tudor Giurgiu (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484437/)

RUSSIA

«я иду искать» | веб-сериал | первый сезон / here I come | web-series | first season, 2020, dir. Andrei Fenochka
(full season as a YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEwumufVnhU&list=PLX_ysH5jGc2GjLUHmfHBl6nHwMSYvDbnY&ab_channel=%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BD) 

Священный Русский Квир (18+), 2020, Карен Шаинян / Karen Shainyan
a documentary film about Russian queer culture in the 1990s-2010s
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThCQbgdD55g&ab_channel=%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8F%D0%BD%2FKarenShainyan) 

Чеченская волна с ЛГБТ (18+), 2020, Карен Шаинян / Karen Shainyan a documentary film about murders of and repressions against gay men in Chechnya
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCYTKvzrUug&ab_channel=%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8F%D0%BD%2FKarenShainyan)

Out of the Closet (Teatr.doc, A. Patlay – documentary play about coming out) (since 2016, uploaded on YouTube in 2020) (https://youtu.be/YiOsD8ns7pA) 

Welcome to Chechnya (2020), dir. David France
a documentary film about the unprecedented effort to evacuate gay men and lesbian women out of Chechnya
(https://www.welcometochechnya.com/) 

Siberia and Him (2019)/Сибирь и он (original title), dir. Viatcheslav Kopturevskiy (http://www.siberiaandhim.com/)

Shortparis – Страшно (2018 music video), (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUdteCBRX9c&ab_channel=Shortparis) 

The Student (2016)/ (M)uchenik (original title), dir. Kirill Serebrennikov
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4874206/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0) 

Extreme Russia: Gay and Under Attack (BBC documentary, 2015), dir. Sam Wilkinson (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4912462)

Children 404 (2014)/Дети 404 (original title), dir. Askold Kurov and Pavel Loparev (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3976140)

Hunted: The War Against Gays in Russia (2014), dir. Ben Steele (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4093636)

Campaign of Hate: Russia and Gay Propaganda (2014), dir. Michael Lucas (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3569014)

Winter Journey (2013) / Zimnii put’ (original title), dir. Liubov L’vova, Sergei Taramaev (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3563662/)

Young and Gay in Putin’s Russia (Vice News documentary, January 2014) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFW80DFpD8Q&list=PLu-IimhlAQIhIXeNxjcISSuX5e4JlkBF2&index=4)

Mr. Propaganda (2013) Мистер Пропаганда (original title), dir. Vladimir Ivanov (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2616080)

Jolly Fellows / Veselchaki (2009), dir. Feliks Mikhailov (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1505957/)

You I Love (2004)/ Ya lyublyu tebya (original title), dir. Olga Stolpovskaia, Dmitrii Troitskii (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402595/)

Drygie Berega – Doc about Gay history in Russia / USSR (NTV 2003)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA8qmiaFcxE&ab_channel=%D0%A2%D0%92%D0%B4%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%94%D1%8F%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA) 

“Covert Homosexuality in a Russian Metropolis”
A Right to be Gay (Aug 1996 documentary in English), (https://www.journeyman.tv/film/252) 

ANDREY BARTENEV. “THE SNOW QUEEN”. PERFORMANCE. 1994 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sf2Gx286Y8&t=708s&ab_channel=ANDREYBARTENEV) 

Hammer and Sickle (1994) / Serp i molot (original title), dir. Sergei Livnev
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111128/) 

Sotvorenie Adama (1993), dir. Iurii Pavlov
(https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/ros/6679/annot/)
(Full video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfUpxfOjEPQ) 

Schastlivogo rozhdestva v Parizhe! ili Banda lesbiyanok (1991), dir. Olga Zhukova
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5844346/) 

SERBIA

The Parade (2011) / Parada (original title), dir. Srdjan Dragojevic (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1784575/)

Take a Deep Breath (2004) / Disi duboko (original title), dir. Dragan Marinkovic (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368689/)

SLOVAKIA

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SLOVENIA

Consequences (2018) / Posledice (original title), dir.  Darko Stante (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8795582/)

Guardian of the Frontier (2002)/Varuh meje (original title), dir. Maja Weiss (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311972)

TAJIKISTAN

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TURKMENISTAN

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UKRAINE

Різні.Рівні by Alina Pash, Сергій Бабкін, Constantine, LATEXFAUNA, YUKO, Gurt [O], KRUTЬ (2020), (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzbDlxA2oH8&ab_channel=%D0%A0%D1%96%D0%B7%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%A0%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BD%D1%96)

НЕ ХОВАЙ ОЧЕЙ-2. Наші в США: фільм про українських ЛГБТ-емігрантів (2019), dir. Yuriy Dvizhon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j9zsav6eaE)

This is Gay Propaganda: LGBT Rights and the War in Ukraine (2015), dir. Marusya Bociurkiw (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5116432) (Canada/Ukraine)

Козаки | Пороблено в Украине, пародия 2014 (Kvartal 95)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgOSrw9Q8rc&ab_channel=%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F%D0%9A%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB95Online)

История ЛГБТ (documentary produced by KyivPride with the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Kyiv) (no online link available)

UZBEKISTAN

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YUGOSLAVIA

W.R. – Mysteries of the Organism (1971)/W.R. – Misterije organizma (original title), dir. Dušan Makavejev (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067958)

MULTIPLE COUNTRIES

East Bloc Love (2011), dir. Logan Mucha (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1793218) – Belarus, Romania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary

FILM FESTIVALS

CR – VOX FEMINAE FESTIVAL, https://voxfeminae.net/festival/

CZ – Mezipatra Queer filmový festival (https://www.mezipatra.cz/) – Praha/Brno

EE – Festheart: LGBT+ Film Festival Estonia (https://festheart.ee/) – Rakvere/Tartu, Estonia

HU – LIFT Festival = Lesbian Identities Festival (LIFT, https://labrisz.hu/programs/lift_festival)

LT – Kreivės: Vilnius Queer Festival (http://festivaliskreives.lt/) – Vilnius, Lithuania

PL – LGBT Film Festival, https://lgbtfestival.pl/en/480-2/ – locations in Poland vary annually

RO – RO Q DOC, ROMANIA QUEER DOCUMENTARIES ( AN ANNUAL INDEPENDENT FILM EVENT), https://roqdoc.wordpress.com/

RO – Feminist and Queer International Film Festival (apparently a one-time event, 6-10 NOIEMBRIE 2015) – https://faqiff.tumblr.com/, BUCURESTI

RO – SFG (Serile Filmului Gay / Gay Film Nights), http://serilefilmuluigay.ro/2020/ 

RU – Side-By-Side LGBT International Film Festival/Бок-о-бок международный ЛГБТ-кинофестиваль (http://www.bok-o-bok.com/) – St. Petersburg, Russia 

SI – Festival LGBT filma, http://www.lgbtfilmfest.si/ – takes place across different locations in Slovenia

SK – Filmový festival inakost, https://www.ffi.sk/ – takes place across different locations in Slovakia

SRB – Međunarodni festival queer filma MERLINKA, https://merlinka.com/ – Belgrade, Serbia

Something missing? Feel free to help the list grow:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rmAweJVQ1DLy5NM5GSJehO0bB01Dc4hxb8B517P_nek/edit?usp=sharing