Endimaris, the LGBTIQ+ film festival of Sitges, opens its sixth edition at the Cinema Prado on 19 November 2026. The programme on the festival's website lists 20 titles, all in this one cinema, and our event page has the address and dates. For anyone who knows the town from Sitges Pride in June, it is a reason to come when the beach is quiet and the evenings happen indoors.
The two galas
Censurada by Mario Garza opens the festival on Thursday 19 November at 19:30. It is set in Navarra in 1969, under Franco-era censorship, and follows a young organist who starts to question the rules around her. Hetero by Fran Campos closes it on Saturday 28 November at 20:15. It takes place during a summer job on the Costa del Sol and features artists from the queer scene of Torremolinos. Both are listed as Spanish premieres, in Spanish with English subtitles.
From Cannes and Berlin
Several titles arrive from this year's big festivals. Coward by Lukas Dhont, a love story in the trenches of the First World War, screens on 21 November at 19:00. Its two leads, Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne, shared the best actor prize at Cannes in May. Two more titles from the Cannes selection follow on 22 November: The Man I Love by Ira Sachs, set in New York during the AIDS crisis, and Club Kid by Jordan Firstman.
Barbara Forever by Brydie O'Connor, a portrait of the filmmaker Barbara Hammer, plays on 23 November after winning the Teddy Award for documentary at the Berlinale. Spanish productions include Un altre home by David Moragas on 20 November, best feature at Turin's Lovers Film Festival, and Els mals noms by Marc Ortiz on 27 November, about an intersex person in rural Spain in the early 20th century, which won the AC/E directing award at the Seville European Film Festival. On 21 November at 22:00, The Rocky Horror Picture Show gets an audience participation screening.
The Special Award
The festival's Special Award 2026 goes to Xavier-Daniel, whom it describes as the founder of the first LGBTQI+ film festival in Spain. His short Silencis, shot in 1982 with Ocaña in the cast and banned at the time, screens on 27 November in a version restored by the Filmoteca de Catalunya.
Tickets and getting there
The festival's price page lists 7 euros a screening and 8 euros for each gala, plus a handling fee of 0.50 euros per ticket. Passes cost 25 euros for five films or 60 euros for all of them, galas not included. The page carries no year, so check the amount in the ticket shop before you count on it.
Subtitles vary by film and are worth checking: Spanish and Catalan titles mostly carry English subtitles, while English and French ones carry Spanish subtitles, Coward among them. The festival's published dates run to 29 November, but nothing in the film list is scheduled after the closing gala on the 28th. The festival puts Sitges 40 minutes by car from Barcelona. El Horno, Sauna Sitges and Queenz Dinner Show are among its sponsors, and the rest of what we list is on our page for Spain.
