One of the (many) things we love about our friends at Queer Screen, who run the Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney, Australia, is that when it’s over, there is still another chance to see some of their best programming ON DEMAND for a final week.

The On-Demand program running until 9 March 2026, is accessible around the globe festival featuring 11 feature films and 10 shorts packages from across the different strands of this year’s festival. The latter, which proved highly popular during the in-person festival, highlights include Trans and Gender Diverse Shorts, Bi+ Shorts, Gay Shorts, and Women Loving Women Shorts.

You can explore the full On-Demand program at https://queerscreen.org.au/ and if you have limited time, then start with Queerguru’s first choice is Departures

Toxic relationships seem to be on the rise, whether romantic, friendship or employer relationships, or maybe we are just better at identifying toxicity these days. Departures, a fantastic new UK indie comedy-drama based in Manchester, takes a deep, brutal dive into the causes and effects of a toxic queer romantic relationship between charity worker Benji (Lloyd Eyre-Morgan) and personal trainer to footballers, Jake (David Tag – Hollyoaks).   After the film screened in London, we got to talk with the filmmaker Lloyd Eyre-Morgan a successful, proud queer working-class actor/writer/directo/ He’s on a mission to make realistic, no-holds-barred gay movies about the community he lives and works in. His debut full-length feature ‘DEPARTURES’, which he also co-wrote and starred in, is about how toxic masculinity can hold you back from being yourself.