Journey with Peccadillo from Latin America through Europe to Australia. There’s also the 25th edition of the popular Boys on Film short film collection along with plenty of drama, passion and friendships among the living and the undead to explore.
Available on the following streaming platforms: Apple TV, Sky Store, Prime Video, YouTube Movies, BFI Player, and Peccadillo Player.
Thirst
(Iceland, 90 mins)
Directed by Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson & Gaukur Úlfarsson
Starring Hjörtur Sævar Steinason, Hulda Lind Kristinsdóttir, Jens Jensson
Somewhere in the frozen darkness of Reykjavík, something very old and very hungry has been waiting. For a thousand years, Hjörtur has lurked in the shadows — a gay vampire of considerable sass, and very specific appetites…
Meanwhile, Hulda is having the worst week of her life. A drug addict, freshly released from police custody following her brother’s suspicious death, she has nowhere to go and no one to turn to — until she meets Hjörtur. In what he almost certainly considers a friendly gesture, the ancient vampire resurrects her dead brother. It does not go well.
Now the two unlikely companions find themselves on the run — from a fanatical cult in purple tracksuits, a rogue detective, and the steadily mounting consequences of a thousand-year-old monster who simply does not know when to stop. The blood flows freely. The body count rises cheerfully. And somewhere in the neon-lit, gore-soaked chaos, an unlikely friendship is forged.
Some friendships are worth dying for. Repeatedly.
You can view the trailer here:
Available on Prime Video, BFI Player, and Peccadillo Player from 22 June.
Boys On Film 25: Silver Bullet
(UK/ international, 137 mins (total)
All about the trials and tribulations of consequence and chance encounters, BOYS ON FILM 25: SILVER BULLET bids you to make a move. When a door is presented to you, do you walk through it? Do you abide by the status quo, or do you dare to truly love yourself and finally embrace
yourself? And what happens when you make bad decisions?
Eight queer stories from Singapore, USA, UK, Taiwan and Germany, proving that every bullet has its billet.
This marks the special 25th anniversary of Peccadillo’s highly popular short film collection that includes award-winning Welsh film G Flat (dir Peter Darney), starring Richard Wilson (One Foot In The Grave); 302 (dir. Leon Cheo); Miss Temperance (dir. Jeremy McClain), starring Drag Race
UK’s Chanel O’Connor; Next Door (dir. Lukas März), Some Kind Of Paradise (dir. Nicholas Finegan); Ripples (dir. Rhys Marc Jones); J is For Just An Afternoon Storm (dir. Chuang Yung-Hsiang); and I Hope He Doesn’t Kill Me (dir. Lyndon Hanrahan & Nora Dahle Borchgrevink).
Available to stream on both UK & US platforms and worldwide from 6 July.
Rent Free
(US, 2024, 93 mins)
Director: Fernando Andrés
Starring Jacob Roberts, David Treviño, Molly Edelman
After a failed move to New York City leaves them kicked out of their new apartment due to Ben’s poor judgment, best friends Ben and Jordan return to Austin, Texas, emotionally and financially broken.
The pair make a desperate pact to spend an entire year living “rent free” by couch-surfing with friends, family, and strangers, navigating their complicated relationships and emotional codependence against the backdrop of their rapidly changing hometown.
A darkly funny, tenderly honest portrait of friendship, adulthood avoidance, and the rising cost of literally everything!
You can view the trailer here:
Available on all UK streaming platforms from 13 July.
Lesvia
(Greece, 2024, 80 mins)
Director: Tzeli Hadjidimitriou
Since the late 1970s, women from across the globe have made a pilgrimage to the tiny Greek village of Skala Eressos on the island of Lesvos, drawn by the ancient legacy of the poet Sappho.
What began as a trickle of travellers became a thriving community — but one that also brought decades of tension and conflict with the conservative local villagers.
Filmmaker Tzeli Hadjidimitriou — a native of Lesvos and a lesbian herself — is uniquely placed to tell this story. Weaving together archival footage, personal testimony, and her own diary entries, she crafts a deeply moving portrait of two communities learning, over forty years, to share the same shoreline.
You can view the trailer here:
Available on Prime Video, BFI Player, and Peccadillo Player from 20 July
Maria’s Paradise
(Finland, 2019, 110 mins)
Director: Zaida Bergroth
Starring Pihla Viitala, Satu Tuuli Karhu, Saga Sarkola
Finland, 1927. Maria Åkerblom is magnetic, imperious, and utterly dangerous — a self-proclaimed prophet who has built a devoted flock of followers who have surrendered everything to her divine vision.
At the edges of this world lives Salome, a teenage orphan who has known no other life. When Maria draws her close, elevating her above the others, Salome’s world is turned upside down by a chance encounter with a girl from outside the cult — and for the first time, she dares to question everything.
Inspired by a true story. Some heavens are prisons in disguise.
Directed by Zaida Bergroth (Tove), this lush period drama features an intense emotional triangle at its heart.
You can watch the trailer here:
Available on Amazon Prime, BFI Player, and Peccadillo Player on 10 August 2026.
Lesbian Space Princess
(Australia, 2025, 86 mins)
Director: Leela Varghese & Emma Hough Hobbs
Cast (voices): Shabana Azeez, Gemma Chua-Tran, Richard Roxburgh
Daughter to the flamboyant lesbian Queens of Planet Clitopolis, introverted Princess Saira is devastated when her bounty-hunter girlfriend, Kiki, suddenly breaks up with her for being too needy.
After Kiki is kidnapped by forgotten incels of the future, the Straight White Maliens, Saira must leave the comforts of gay space to deliver their ransom: her royal labrys (the most powerful weapon known to lesbian kind). Only problem is… she doesn’t have it!
And so the most anxious, self-doubting princess in the GAY-laxy must climb aboard a deeply problematic spaceship, pick up a fabulous gay-pop runaway and hurtle across queer space on the most chaotic rescue mission ever attempted to save her ex!
Multiple award-winning Lesbian Space Princess is a madcap animated adult queer comedy, written and directed by Emma Hough Hughes and Leela Varghese. Winner of the Teddy Award and a recent Nominee for seven Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards.
You can watch the trailer here:
Available on UK streaming platforms from 17 August 2026.
Downriver
(Australia, 2015, 99 mins)
Director: Grant Scicluna
Starring Reef Ireland, Kerry Fox, Robert Taylor
James is released from juvenile detention after serving time for his alleged involvement in the death of a young boy, though the body was never found and James has little memory of what happened.
After being released, James is confronted by the grieving mother of his victim. The encounter sparks his quest for the truth, compelling him to return to his rural Australian community, where he must navigate estranged family relationships, rekindle old friendships, face shocking revelations, and handle a complicated romantic involvement. As he seeks to uncover what really happened that day by the river, he risks both his freedom and his life.
Debut feature from Iris Prize winner director Grant Scicluna, this mystery thriller stars Robert
Taylor (The Meg, The Matrix) and Kerry Fox (Shallow Grave)
You can view the trailer here:
Available on Prime Video, BFI Player, and Peccadillo Player from 24 August 2026.
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