The Barcelona International LGBT+ Film Festival, FIRE!!, hits a major milestone in 2025: its 30th edition. For three decades, it has been a vital platform for LGBT+ stories, amplifying voices that challenge norms and celebrate sexual and gender diversity. The festival has been a political statement, an artistic movement, and a safe space for imagining new narratives.
This anniversary is about celebrating the present and shaping the future. The festival’s 2025 image, designed by artist Verónica Carracedo, mixes pop art, cinematic style, and vibrant colors to center pleasure, rebellion, and beauty.
As always, the lineup is a mix of films and events that reflect the diversity of LGBT+ experiences. From intimate dramas to sharp comedies, the selected works explore desire, survival, and the power of living authentically. Here’s a glimpse at what to expect:
Thesis on a Domestication (Javier van de Couter) follows a trans actress (Camila Sosa Villada) navigating love, ambition, and the complexities of a life well-lived.
The Astronaut Lovers (Pablo Berger) is a summer comedy about unexpected attraction between an openly gay man and his supposedly straight childhood friend.
Linda (Mariana Wainstein) turns the classic “maid seduces the family” trope on its head, focusing on female desire rather than sacrifice.
Baby (Marcelo Caetano) is a gritty drama about a young man leaving juvenile detention and finding survival—and connection—on the margins of São Paulo.
These films, though different in tone, all speak to the same truth: queer life is about more than struggle, it’s about love, reinvention, and claiming space.
Beyond screenings, FIRE!! 2025 will host discussions, exhibitions, and concerts, making it a full cultural experience. It’s also a bridge between generations, pairing new filmmakers with veterans to honor the community’s history while pushing forward.
As festival director Antoine Leonetti puts it: “This edition celebrates diversity but also calls for more—more stories, more defiance, more art. Cinema is still a radical act.”
C2H4® is slowing down. Instead of chasing seasons, their R011 Collection is built to last: one carefully crafted lineup per year, designed to stay relevant long after the trends fade.
HAIKURE’s SS26 collection, Come As You Are, is for people who want to feel good without the effort, who wear clothes that fit their lives, not the other way around.
Glass Cypress’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection, The Ones Who Flee, is a meditation on movement, not just physical escape, but the deeper act of resisting what binds us.
Francisco Terra’s 15th-anniversary collection for Maldito is a midnight ride through memory, a fever dream of teenage longing stitched into lace and rhinestones.
In a time of movement and uncertainty, Estelita Mendonça’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection questions what clothing means when stability feels like a luxury.
Take a look at C.R.E.O.L.E’s Spring/Summer 2026 backstage, captured by the lens of Spencer Stovell during Paris Fashion Week, in exclusive for Fucking Young!
Glenn Martens’ Maison Margiela Artisanal collection doesn’t just borrow from history, but it fractures it, reassembles it, and wears it like a second skin.
For Spring/Summer 2026, AV Vattev’s Bohème collection takes its cues from two iconic worlds: the effortless cool of French New Wave cinema and the raw energy of British music subcultures.
Concrete Husband talks about turning psychological collapse into industrial soundscapes, confronting darkness on Berghain’s dancefloor, and why dark techno is, above all, sexy.
Turn the page. Breathe deep. Your pupils are already dilating. The high is coming.
Issue 26 brings together two electrifying covers that take the dopamine dive from Sadiq Desh captured by Cris Cerdeira to multidisciplinary visual artist and photographer Tomás Pintos’ cover story, Besos hasta agotar stock (Kisses Until Sold Out), developed from the live performance creating a space where glamour
meets exhaustion.
