Dead End
A desperate love letter to Jakarta, where sex, religion, and loneliness collide in the city's restless nocturnal underworld.
Omar Beretta
LGBTQ+ Filmmaker & Director
Omar Beretta is a queer filmmaker working across narrative cinema, experimental shorts, and explicit film practices. His work explores desire, power, performance, and visibility, treating queer sexuality as both an aesthetic and political force.
Engaging with post-porn discourse, Beretta challenges shame, censorship, and normative ideas of representation. His films foreground queer bodies and pleasures as fully present, using explicit imagery to open conversations around gender, embodiment, desire, and power.
This approach is reflected in works such as *Manila Killah*, presented in the post-porn section of Festival MIX México, as well as screenings at Porn Film Festival Vienna, Festival de Arte y Cine Contrasexual (FACC), Queergestreift Filmfestival, and Vienna Shorts. Across these spaces, his work positions cinema as a site of experimentation, exposure, and collective discussion around queer desire.
As Featured In
Film Festival Participation
Minikino Open (Indonesia, 2022)
4th Dimension Independent Film Festival (Indonesia, 2022)
Cult Valley Global Cinefest (India, 2022)
Nitiin International Film Festival (Malaysia, 2022)
Druk International Film Festival (Bhutan, 2022)
Cult Critic Movie Awards (India, 2023)
Jaisalmer International Film Festival (India, 2023)
Shunyatam International Film Festival (India, 2023)
World Film Carnival Singapore (Singapore, 2023)
Queer Film Festival Rosarito (Mexico, 2023)
Knight of the Reel Awards (India, 2023)
Calcutta International Cult Film Festival (India, 2023)
Festival MIX: Cine y Diversidad Sexual (Mexico, 2023, 2024, 2026)
Asia South East-Short Film Festival (Cambodia, 2023)
Nepal Cultural International Film Festival (Nepal, 2023)
PIFF Paraná International Films Festival (Argentina, 2023, 2024, 2026)
Festival Internacional de Cine LesBiGayTrans / Lesbigaytrans (Paraguay, 2023, 2024, 2025)
Fotofilm International Short Film Festival (Turkey, 2023)
Make Art Not Fear Film Festival (Portugal, 2023)
Bali Queer Film Festival (Indonesia, 2024)
Maracay International Film & Video Festival (Venezuela, 2024)
Festival Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre (Argentina, 2024)
FARO Concurso de Cinema Mediterrâneo e Mundial (Portugal, 2025)
Gasp! Horror Film Festival (United Kingdom, 2025)
Assurdo Film Festival (Italy, 2026)
Cine Pobre Film Festival (Mexico, 2026)
South Asian Short Film Festival (India, 2026)
Porn Film Festival Vienna (Austria, 2026)
FACC* – Festival de Arte y Cine Contrasexual (Mexico, 2026)
Vienna Shorts (Austria, 2026)
Queergestreift Filmfestival (Germany, 2026)
International Queer Film Festival Playa del Carmen (Mexico, 2026)
Recognitions
Awards
Best First Time Filmmaker — 4th Dimension Independent Film Festival (Indonesia, 2022)
Best LGBT Film — Cult Valley Global Cinefest (India, 2022)
Best Debut Director — Nitiin International Film Festival (Malaysia, 2022)
Debut Filmmaker — Druk International Film Festival (Bhutan, 2022)
Best LGBT Film — Cult Critic Movie Awards (India, 2023)
Best Debut Filmmaker — Jaisalmer International Film Festival (India, 2023)
Best LGBT Film — Shunyatam International Film Festival (India, 2023)
Best Mobile Film — World Film Carnival Singapore (Singapore, 2023)
Outstanding Achievement Award – Debut Filmmaker — Knight of the Reel Awards (India, 2023)
Best Editing — Calcutta International Cult Film Festival (India, 2023)
Special Mention — Asia South East-Short Film Festival (Cambodia, 2023)
Award Winner — Make Art Not Fear Film Festival (Portugal, 2023)
Best LGBT Short Film — Maracay International Film & Video Festival (Venezuela, 2024)
Honorable Mention — FARO Concurso de Cinema Mediterrâneo e Mundial (Portugal, 2025)
Best LGBTQ+ Film — Assurdo Film Festival (Italy, 2026)
Nominee — Cine Pobre Film Festival (Mexico, 2026)
Official Selections
Queer Film Festival Rosarito — Rosarito, Mexico (Feb 3, 2023) — Official Selection
Festival MIX: Cine y Diversidad Sexual — Mexico City, Mexico (Jun 7, 2023) — Official Selection
Nepal Cultural International Film Festival — Kathmandu, Nepal (Sep 22, 2023) — Official Selection
PIFF Paraná International Film Festival (6th Edition) — Paraná, Argentina (Sep 3, 2023) — Official Selection
Festival Internacional de Cine LesBiGayTrans — Asunción, Paraguay (Jul 22, 2023) — Official Selection
Festival MIX México — Mexico City, Mexico (Jun 20, 2024) — Official Selection
PIFF Paraná International Film Festival (7th Edition) — Paraná, Argentina (Sep 3, 2024) — Official Selection
Festival Internacional de Cine Lesbigaytrans — Asunción, Paraguay (Aug 27, 2024) — Official Selection
Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre — Buenos Aires, Argentina (Nov 27, 2024) — Official Selection
GASP! Horror Film Festival — Manchester, United Kingdom (Aug 16, 2025) — Official Selection
Festival Internacional de Cine Lesbigaytrans — Asunción, Paraguay (Aug 26, 2025) — Official Selection
South Asian Short Film Festival — Kolkata, India (Jul 6, 2026) — Official Selection
PIFF Paraná International Film Festival (9th Edition) — Paraná, Argentina (Aug 31, 2026) — Official Selection
Porn Film Festival Vienna — Vienna, Austria (Apr 16, 2026) — Official Selection
Festival MIX México — Mexico City, Mexico (Jun 18, 2026) — Official Selection
International Queer Film Festival Playa del Carmen — Playa del Carmen, Mexico (Nov 19, 2026) — Official Selection
FACC* Festival de Arte y Cine Contrasexual — Mexico City, Mexico (Apr 15, 2026) — Official Selection
Vienna Shorts — Vienna, Austria (May 26, 2026) — Official Selection
Queergestreift Filmfestival — Konstanz, Germany (Apr 16, 2026) — Official Selection (Non-competitive Section)
Directorial Work
Neither Totem Nor Taboo
A teenager's psychedelic journey forces his father to confront the uneasy boundaries between desire, freedom, and social convention.
Tusi Taxi
A dealer, a mother, a guardian angel, and a lost son share a taxi ride through the emotional landscape of a bourgeois family in quiet disarray.
Macho Man (Bugarrón)
In Cuba, a film student discovers that artistic ambition and sexual desire rarely travel in the same direction.
Golden Bangkok
Alone in a Bangkok guesthouse, a filmmaker turns the camera on himself, transforming boredom, desire, and digital longing into a meditation on contemporary solitude.
Playparty #6
As desire dissolves into endless feeds, loops, and livestreams, a lonely man navigates the strange intimacy of erotic life online.
Mad Mother
A mockumentary investigation into a mother's worst nightmare: discovering that her son prefers border crossings, queer desire, and perpetual motion to the comforts of bourgeois respectability.
Revenge
A troubled couple's psychedelic retreat awakens ghosts buried deep within family history, where desire, memory, and vengeance become impossible to separate.
A Lover in Taipei
Struggling with writer's block, a filmmaker reconstructs a failed romance through found footage, personal archives, and the fragile machinery of memory.
Manila Killah
A Western drifter hiding in Manila discovers that desire and deception often travel together, and that every escape comes with a price.
Forget Your Ex
Heartbroken and adrift in Bangkok, a Westerner enters a psychedelic underworld promising the impossible: a pill that can erase the past.
Producer Work
Dead End
Premiere: 20th Minikino Open December — Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia — 18 December 2022 (World Premiere)
Neither Totem Nor Taboo
Premiere: This project has not yet been submitted to any festivals.
Tusi Taxi
Premiere: Festival MIX México: Cine y Diversidad Sexual — Mexico City, Mexico — 20 June 2024 (World Premiere)
Revenge
Premiere: Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre Film Festival — Buenos Aires, Argentina — 27 November 2024 (World Premiere)
A Lover in Taipei
Premiere: Casa Céspedes — Buenos Aires, Argentina — 28 March 2025 (Private Screening / Main Event)
Golden Bangkok
Premiere: Porn Film Festival Vienna — Vienna, Austria — 16 April 2026 (World Premiere)
Manila Killah
Premiere: Festival MIX México: Cine, Diversidad Sexual y de Género — Mexico City, Mexico — 18 June 2026 (World Premiere)
Playparty #6
Premiere: Porn Film Festival Vienna — Vienna, Austria — 16 April 2026 (World Premiere)
Forget your Ex
Premiere: This project has not yet been submitted to any festivals.
Acting Work
Dead End
Lead Role (2022)
Neither Totem Nor Taboo
Supporting Role (2023)