SaFFlicks brings new sapphic films to UK audiences
SaFFlicks Sapphic Film Festival brings lesbian and bisexual stories online from 10 October alongside four more London screenings.
Lesbian, bisexual and women-loving-women stories will be available to watch online when the SaFFlicks Sapphic Film Festival launches its virtual programme on Lesflicks from 10 to 23 October 2026. The wider October festival also continues with public screenings across London later in the month.
The programme explores subjects including coming out, identity, relationships, family, faith, feminism, biodiversity and belonging. SaFFlicks is specifically designed around authentic sapphic representation, giving independent work an audience beyond the much smaller number of lesbian and bisexual stories traditionally reaching mainstream screens.
When are the London screenings?
The next public London event takes place at The Arzner on Thursday 15 October at 6.30pm, with tickets priced at £12 and a social afterwards. A Life is a Journey shorts programme follows at the same venue on Sunday 18 October, with £10 tickets.
Another shorts programme, It's Complicated: Love, Longing & Making a Family, screens at Sea Containers on 22 October at 5.30pm. That event is free and is followed by a filmmaker Q&A.
The final public screening listed for the month takes place at The Arzner on Sunday 25 October at 4.15pm, with tickets priced at £15. Five pounds from each ticket will go towards a campaign supporting trans young people.
Why is there also an online festival?
The Lesflicks programme running from 10 to 23 October gives audiences who cannot reach London another route into the festival. That is particularly useful for sapphic cinema, where films can receive strong festival reactions but struggle to secure wide conventional distribution.
SaFFlicks was founded to connect lesbian and bisexual filmmakers directly with the audiences most likely to want their work. Its October programme combines those physical screenings with an online window, allowing the festival to extend well beyond a handful of London cinema seats.
