In May, Filmhuis Den Haag presents a Queer Classics retrospective in celebration of Pride The Hague. This programme brings together a selection of landmark films that have shaped queer cinema and continue to influence how queer stories and characters are represented on screen. It is both a celebration of Pride and an invitation to revisit works that remain vital, surprising and deeply resonant today. The programme takes place at Filmhuis Den Haag.

Cinema history & queer representation

Queer Classics is built on the understanding that there is no single way to be queer and no single way to tell queer stories. These films open up a wide range of emotional worlds, perspectives and experiences, reflecting lives that are layered, joyful, complex and sometimes contradictory. Each title offers its own rhythm and truth, showing how queer cinema resists easy definitions and instead thrives in its diversity.

Across the programme, you will encounter films that move between tenderness and chaos, intimacy and boldness, reflection and exuberant expression. From the quiet longing of Maurice to the glitter filled energy of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and from the emotional nuance of Saving Face to the radical vision of The Watermelon Woman, Happy Together and Funeral Parade of Roses, each film has left a lasting mark on cinema history and on queer representation.

We invite you to come as you are and explore these stories with curiosity. Whether you are discovering them for the first time or returning to old favourites, Queer Classics offers space to reflect, feel and be surprised. It is a chance to celebrate the richness of queer cinema and the many ways queer lives continue to unfold on screen.