List of LGBTQ film festivals

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The long-running Frameline Film Festival is held annually at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. San Francisco, June-2015 (19055061898).jpg
The long-running Frameline Film Festival is held annually at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco.

An LGBTQ film festival or queer film festival is a specialized film festival that has an LGBTQ focus in its selection of films. [1] [2] [3] LGBT film festivals often screen films that would struggle to find a mainstream audience and are often activist spaces for awareness-raising around LGBT rights as well as for community building among queer communities.[ citation needed ]

The first LGBTQ-focused film festivals were organized in the United States as part of the awakening LGBTQ movement in the United States in the 1970s. The longest-running film festival with an LGBT focus is the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco, which was established in 1977. [4] Until the 1990s, LGBTQ film festivals were mostly informal screenings in Western countries. In the 1990s, NGOs were founded to create and promote queer-focused film festivals and festivals became more commercialized. Around this time, more queer-focused film festivals began to emerge, especially in East Asia and Eastern Europe. [5]

LGBT film festivals use different labels to promote their focus on LGBTQ topics, for instance "gay and lesbian" (such as the Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival); "queer" (such as the Asian Queer Film Festival); "rainbow" (such as the Rainbow Reel Tokyo); "LGBT", "LGBTQ", and other variations of the acronym (such as the Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival); or they might not use a label in their name at all (such as the MIX NYC). [6]

In 2020, several queer film festivals—Los Angeles's Outfest, the New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival, Toronto's Inside Out Film and Video Festival, and San Francisco's Frameline Film Festival—partnered to launch the North American Queer Festival Alliance, an initiative to further publicize and promote LGBTQ film. [7]

List

NameLocationEstablishedNotes
City or citiesState, province or regionCountry
&PROUD Yangon LGBTIQ Film Festival Yangon Yangon Region Myanmar2014Now part of Yangon Pride, yearly at the end of January
Abhimani Film Festival Colombo Western Province Sri Lanka2006Also known as Celluloid Rainbows, this is the oldest LGBT film festival in the South Asian region, [8] and the only LGBT film festival in Sri Lanka. [8]
Amor Festival Santiago de Chile Chile2016
Aomori International LGBT Film Festival Aomori Aomori Prefecture Japan2006
Asian Queer Film Festival Tokyo Greater Tokyo Area Japan2007
Asterisco Festival Internacional de Cine LGBTIQ Buenos Aires Argentina2014
Atlanta Film Festival Atlanta Georgia United States2008, 1976 (original festival)Listed for the Pink Peach Prize LGBTQ Film Award, 2008
Bangalore Queer Film Festival Bangalore Karnataka India2008
Bangkok Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Bangkok Bangkok Metropolitan Region Thailand2015Defunct in 2016
Beijing Queer Film Festival Beijing Beijing Municipality China2001
BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival London Greater London United Kingdom1986
Budapest Pride LGBTQ Film Festival Budapest Hungary
Cancún International Gay Festival Cancún Mexico
CinegailesAST Gijón Spain2006
Chennai International Queer Film Festival Chennai Chennai Metropolitan Area India2005
Chéries-Chéris Paris France1994
CINHOMO Valladolid Castilla y León Spain2017
Cine Movilh Santiago Chile
Cinema Queer International Film Festival Stockholm Sweden
CINEMQ Shanghai Shanghai

(municipality)

China2015
CineQ Queer Film Festival Birmingham West Midlands United Kingdom2019
Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival Hartford Connecticut United States1988Produced by Out Film CT. Connecticut's longest-running film festival.
Cuórum Morelia Mexico2019
Utah Queer Film Festival Salt Lake City Utah United States2003Longest-running LGBTQ film festival in the Mountain West. [9] Formerly known as Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival. [10]
Dayton LGBT Film Festival Dayton Ohio United States2005
DIGO Goiás Goiânia Brazil2016
DIVERSA Buenos Aires Argentina2004
DOTYK Minsk Minsk Region Belarus2015
Durban Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Durban South Africa
Ehime LGBT Film Festival Matsuyama Ehime Prefecture Japan
ENDIMARIS Sitges LGTBIQ+ Film Festival Sitges Catalonia Spain2021
EQUAL Film Fest San José Costa Rica2019
FACE à FACE Saint-Étienne Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France2005
Fancinegay Badajoz Spain1998
Faroe Islands International Minority Film Festival Tórshavn Faroe Islands2017
Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival Calgary Alberta Canada1999
FestDivQ Caracas Venezuela
Festival de Cine LesBiGayTrans de Asunción Asunción Paraguay2005
Festival de cine Gay y Lésbico de Canarias Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife Spain2007
Festival de Cine Lésbico y Gai de Andalucía Seville, Huelva, Cádiz and Córdoba Spain2006
Festival de Cine LGBTIQ - Asturias Avilés Spain2016
Festival Internacional de cine LGBT El Lugar Sin Límites Quito, Guayaquil and othersEcuador2002
Festival Mix Brazil de Cultura da Diversidade São Paulo Brazil
Festival MIX Milano Milan Lombardy Italy1986Festival MIX Milano of GayLesbian cinema and Queer culture
Filmfest homochrom Cologne & Dortmund North Rhine-Westphalia Germany2011defunct in 2019 [11]
FilmOut San Diego San Diego California United States2005San Diego's only LGBT film festival
FFTG Awards Film Fest New York WorldwideUnited States2020International digital film fest
FICGLB – Festival Internacional de Cine Gay y Lésbico de Barcelona Barcelona Catalonia Spain
FIRE!! Barcelona Catalonia Spain1995
FiveFilms4freedom OnlineOnlineUnited Kingdom2015World's first online, global and free 10-day LGBT film festival, created by the British Council and British Film Institute, and supported by the UN Free & Equal campaign
Frameline Film Festival San Francisco California United States1977
Gay Film Nights Cluj-Napoca Cluj County Romania2004
Gaze Dublin Leinster Ireland1992
Geelong Pride Film Festival Geelong Victoria Australia2017
GFest – gayWise LGBT Arts Festival London Greater London United Kingdom
Glasgay! Festival Glasgow Scotland Scotland1993
Hamilton Queer Film Festival Hamilton Ontario Canada2021
Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Central and
Pok Fu Lam
Hong Kong Island Hong Kong
China
1989
Image+Nation Montreal Quebec Canada1987
ImageOut Rochester New York United States
In & Out Nice Alpes-Maritimes France2009
Inside Out Film and Video Festival Toronto and Ottawa Ontario Canada1991
Iris Prize Film Festival Cardiff Wales United Kingdom2007
International Queer Film Festival Playa del Carmen Playa del Carmen Mexico2013
Kagawa Rainbow Film Festival Kagawa Kagawa Prefecture Japan
KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival Mumbai Maharashtra India2010
Kansai Queer Film Festival Osaka Osaka Prefecture Japan
Korea Queer Film Festival Seoul Seoul Capital Area South Korea2001
Kreivės Vilnius Lithuania Lithuania2014The festival is open to feature films, documentaries and short films focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex themes. [12] [13]
Leeds Queer Film Festival Leeds West Yorkshire United Kingdom2005
LesGaiCineMad Madrid Community of Madrid Spain1996
Lethal Lesbian Tel Aviv Israel2008Screens independent films by and about women who love women.
LGBT Film Festival Warsaw Poland2010Largest festival of LGBT cinema in Central and Eastern Europe
LGBT+ Film Festival Bangkok Bangkok Metropolitan Region Thailand2018Curated and hosted by Bangkok Screening Room
Ljubljana LGBT Film Festival Ljubljana Central Slovenia Slovenia1984 [14] Europe's oldest gay and lesbian film festival [15]
Llamale H Montevideo Uruguay
London Lesbian Film Festival London Ontario Canada1991
Lovers Film Festival - Torino LGBTQI Visions Turin Piedmont Italy1986
Making Scenes Film and Video Festival Ottawa Ontario Canada1992Defunct in 2005; replaced with Ottawa edition of Inside Out.
Mardi Gras Film Festival Sydney New South Wales Australia1993
Massimadi Festival Montreal Quebec Canada2009Centres on film and art relating to LGBTQ issues in the Black/African diaspora
Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival Tunis Tunis Tunisia 2018
Melbourne Queer Film Festival Melbourne Victoria Australia1991
Merlinka Festival Belgrade, Novi Sad, Sarajevo, Tuzla, Podgorica Former Yugoslavia Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro2009Only queer film festival that is organized in several countries.
Mezipatra Brno and Prague Moravia and Bohemia Czech Republic2000
MICGénero Mexico City State of Mexico Mexico
Milwaukee LGBT Film & Video Festival Milwaukee Wisconsin United States1987
MIX Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen Metropolitan Area Denmark1986
MIX NYC New York City New York United States1987
Movida Gay Cuba2007
Muestra Internacional de Cine Diversex Nicaragua Managua, León, Jinotepe, Masaya, Matagalpa, Granada and othersNicaragua2008
Muskoka Queer Film Festival Bracebridge, Huntsville Ontario Canada2020Launched online during the COVID-19 pandemic following the cancellation of its planned live inaugural edition [16]
National Queer Arts Festival San Francisco California United States1998
NewFest New York City New York United States1988
North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Durham North Carolina United States1995
Notre Dame Queer Film Festival Notre Dame Indiana United States2004
Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival Oslo Norway
OUTeast Film Festival Halifax Nova Scotia Canada2012
Out in Africa Johannesburg and Cape Town Gauteng and Western Cape South Africa1994
Out and Loud Pune International Queer Film Festival Pune Maharashtra India2017
Out North Queer Film Festival Whitehorse Yukon Canada2012
Out on Film Atlanta Georgia United States1987
Out Takes: A Reel Queer Film Festival Auckland and Wellington Auckland Region and Wellington Region New Zealand1995
Outburst Queer Arts Festival Belfast Belfast Northern Ireland United Kingdom
Outfest Los Angeles California United States1982
OutfestPerú Lima Peru
OutLove International Film Festival Fort Myers Florida United States2020
Outview Film Festival Athens Greece Greece2007
Paris Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival Paris France France1989Women-only film festival featuring films by and about lesbians and feminism
Pink Life QueerFest Istanbul Turkey
Philadelphia QFest Philadelphia Pennsylvania United States1996
Pink Apple Zürich and Frauenfeld Canton of Zürich and Canton of Thurgau Switzerland1997
Pink Lobster Film Festival Fredericton New Brunswick Canada2017
Pink Screens Brussels Brussels Belgium2002
Pride International Film Festival Manila Metro Manila Philippines2004Films specialising in HIV and AIDS awareness
Puerto Rico Queer Filmfest San Juan Puerto Rico United States
Q! Film Festival Jakarta Greater Jakarta (Jabodetabek)Indonesia2002Asia's largest LGBT film festival, [17] and the first in a predominantly Muslim country. [18] It was established in 2002 and closed in early 2017.
QFest Houston Texas United States1997
Queer City Cinema Regina Saskatchewan Canada1996
Queer Film Festival Berlin, Cologne, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Fürstenwalde, Halle (Saale), Leipzig, Magdeburg, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart & Vienna Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Vienna Germany
Austria
[19]
Queer Film Festival Oldenburg Oldenburg Niedersachsen Germany2010
Queer Kampala International Film Festival Kampala Uganda
Queer Lisboa International Queer Film Festival Lisbon Lisbon metropolitan area Portugal1997
Queer Media Festival Manchester Greater Manchester United Kingdom
Queer North Film Festival Sudbury Ontario Canada2016
QUEER-Streifen RegensburgRegensburgBavariaGermany2012
Queer Vision Film Festival Bristol South West England United Kingdom
Queer Voices: NYC Film FestivalNew York CityNew YorkUnited States2023Queer Voices: NYC is focused on centering and celebrating LGBTQIA+ filmmakers of color.
Queersicht Bern Canton of Bern Switzerland1997
Rainbow Film Festival Honolulu Hawaii United States1989
Rainbow Film Festival Shrewsbury Shropshire United Kingdom
Rainbow Reel Tokyo Tokyo Greater Tokyo Area Japan1992'Rainbow Reel Tokyo' is the official new name for the 'Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival' (since 2016).
Rainbow Reels Queer and Trans Film Festival Kitchener-Waterloo Ontario Canada
Rainbow Visions Film Festival Edmonton Alberta Canada2015
Reel Affirmations Washington, D.C. District of Columbia United States1991
Reel Out Charlotte Charlotte North Carolina United States2008'Reel Out Charlotte' is the new name for 'GayCharlotte Film Festival' (since 2018).
Reel Pride Winnipeg Manitoba Canada1985
Reel Pride Fresno California United States1989
Reelout Queer Film Festival Kingston Ontario Canada1999
Reeling Chicago Illinois United States1981
Rio LGBTQIA+ Festival Internacional de Cinema Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Brazil1995Originally known as Rio Festival Gay de Cinema, the festival adopted its new name in 2016. Rio LGBTQIA+ Film Festival is the new title of the festival.
RO Q DOC Bucharest Romania
Roze Filmdagen Amsterdam Netherlands1996
San Francisco Transgender Film Festival San Francisco California United States1997 [20] Originally named 'Tranny Fest'
Santo Domingo Outfest Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic 2010
Screened Out Cablecast film festivalNationwide cablecastUnited States2007 only
SQIFF Glasgow Scotland United Kingdom2015
Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Seattle Washington United States1996
Shanghai Queer Film Festival Shanghai Shanghai
(municipality)
China2017New LGBT film festival, run by volunteers and as a not-for-profit community event; [21] opened in September 2017
ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival Shanghai Shanghai
(municipality)
China2015Originated from ShanghaiPRIDE film screening nights in collaboration with Beijing Queer Film Festival. [22]
Sicilia Queer filmfest Palermo Sicily Italy2010International & New Visions filmfest
Side by Side Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg
('Federal Subject')
Russia2008
Slovak Queer Film Festival Bratislava Slovakia
Sunny Bunny Kyiv Ukraine2023First Ukrainian LGBT film festival, expansion of an existing program within Kyiv International Film Festival "Molodist" [23]
Taiwan International Queer Film Festival Taipei and
Taichung
Taipei–Keelung Metropolitan Area and
Taichung-Changhua Metropolitan Area
Taiwan (R.O.C)2014
Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Tampa Florida United States1989
Tels Quel Festival Brussels Belgium
Thessaloniki International G.L.A.D. Film Festival (LGBTI+) Thessaloniki Greece1998
TLVFest Tel Aviv Gush Dan Israel2006
Toronto Queer Film Festival Toronto Ontario Canada2016
TranScreen Filmfestival Amsterdam Amsterdam NetherlandsNetherlands2011
Transition International Queer Minorities Film Festival Vienna Austria
Translations: The Seattle Transgender Film Festival Seattle Washington United States2006Films by, for, and about transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse people and the issues facing the community
Vancouver Queer Film Festival Vancouver British Columbia Canada1988
Vinokino Turku and Helsinki Southwest Finland (or 'Finland Proper') and Uusimaa (or 'Nyland')Finland1991
Way OUT West Film Fest Albuquerque New Mexico United States2003
Wicked Queer Boston Massachusetts United States1984Formerly known as the Boston LGBT Film Festival [24]
West Pride Gothenburg Metropolitan Gothenburg Sweden2007
XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin Berlin Germany
Zinegoak Bilbao Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 2004

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