Lesbian Space Princess, dir. Emma Hough Hobbs & Leela Varghese, 2025, Australia, 87 min. 👏
Sunday, June 22, 2025, 8:30 pm, Roxie Theater
🇺🇸 U.S. premiere
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| Lesbian Space Princess |
Saira, twentysomething royal princess of Clitopolis, is painfully introverted and full of crippling self-doubt. It doesn’t help that she has been unable to summon the Royal Labrys, a powerful weapon that is her birthright as a lesbian princess. She has been voted “most boring royal,” and she has just wrecked her eternal soulmate relationship of two weeks, just in time for her birthday and then the Lesbian Ball.
Her now ex-girlfriend gets kidnapped by the evil Straight White Maliens, who demand that Saira bring her labrys as ransom for Kiki. She sets off in a dysfunctional spaceship, meets up with a gay-pop star, and goes on the quest to rescue Kiki. The plot takes various twists and turns, some of them almost formulaic but many of them wildly unexpected. The animation style is engaging, and the story has plenty of wit, including more gay in-jokes than you can count.
It’s fun, well made, light-hearted, and definitely worth seeing. Highly recommended.
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