Name |
Location |
Established |
Notes |
City or cities |
State, province or region |
Country |
&PROUD Yangon LGBTIQ Film Festival |
Yangon | Yangon Region | Myanmar |
2014 |
Now part of Yangon Pride, yearly at the end of January |
Abhimani Film Festival |
Colombo | Western Province | Sri Lanka |
2006 |
Also 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 | |
Chile |
2016 |
|
Aomori International LGBT Film Festival |
Aomori | Aomori Prefecture | Japan |
2006 |
|
Asian Queer Film Festival |
Tokyo | Greater Tokyo Area | Japan |
2007 |
|
Asterisco Festival Internacional de Cine LGBTIQ |
Buenos Aires | | Argentina |
2014 |
|
Atlanta Film Festival |
Atlanta | Georgia | United States |
2008, 1976 (original festival) |
Listed for the Pink Peach Prize LGBTQ Film Award, 2008 |
Bangalore Queer Film Festival |
Bangalore | Karnataka | India |
2008 |
|
Bangkok Gay and Lesbian Film Festival |
Bangkok | Bangkok Metropolitan Region | Thailand |
2015 |
Defunct in 2016 |
Beijing Queer Film Festival |
Beijing | Beijing Municipality | China |
2001 |
|
BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival |
London | Greater London | United Kingdom |
1986 |
|
Budapest Pride LGBTQ Film Festival |
Budapest | | Hungary |
|
|
Cancún International Gay Festival |
Cancún | |
Mexico |
|
|
CinegailesAST |
Gijón | |
Spain |
2006 |
|
Chennai International Queer Film Festival |
Chennai | Chennai Metropolitan Area | India |
2005 |
|
Chéries-Chéris |
Paris | | France |
1994 |
|
CINHOMO |
Valladolid | Castilla y León | Spain |
2017 |
|
Cine Movilh |
Santiago | | Chile |
|
|
Cinema Queer International Film Festival |
Stockholm | | Sweden |
|
|
CINEMQ |
Shanghai |
Shanghai
(municipality) |
China |
2015 |
|
CineQ Queer Film Festival |
Birmingham |
West Midlands |
United Kingdom |
2019 |
|
Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival |
Hartford |
Connecticut |
United States |
1988 |
Produced by Out Film CT. Connecticut's longest-running film festival. |
Cuórum |
Morelia | |
Mexico |
2019 |
|
Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival |
Salt Lake City | Utah | United States |
2003 |
Longest-running LGBTQ film festival in the Mountain West[9] |
Dayton LGBT Film Festival |
Dayton |
Ohio |
United States |
2005 |
|
DIGO |
Goiás | Goiânia | Brazil |
2016 |
|
DIVERSA |
Buenos Aires | |
Argentina |
2004 |
|
DOTYK |
Minsk | Minsk Region | Belarus |
2015 |
Durban Gay and Lesbian Film Festival |
Durban | | South Africa |
|
|
Ehime LGBT Film Festival |
Matsuyama | Ehime Prefecture | Japan |
|
|
ENDIMARIS Sitges LGTBIQ+ Film Festival |
Sitges |
Catalonia |
Spain |
2021 |
|
EQUAL Film Fest |
San José | |
Costa Rica |
2019 |
EQUAL FILM FEST |
FACE à FACE |
Saint-Étienne | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | France |
2005 |
|
Fancinegay |
Badajoz | |
Spain |
1998 |
Fancinegay |
Faroe Islands International Minority Film Festival |
Tórshavn | | Faroe Islands |
2017 |
|
Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival |
Calgary | Alberta | Canada |
1999 |
|
FestDivQ |
Caracas | | Venezuela |
|
|
Festival de Cine LesBiGayTrans de Asunción |
Asunción | |
Paraguay |
2005 |
|
Festival de cine Gay y Lésbico de Canarias |
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife | |
Spain |
2007 |
|
Festival de Cine Lésbico y Gai de Andalucía |
Seville, Huelva, Cádiz and Córdoba | |
Spain |
2006 |
Andalesgai |
Festival de Cine LGBTIQ - Asturias |
Avilés | |
Spain |
2016 |
|
Festival Internacional de cine LGBT El Lugar Sin Límites |
Quito, Guayaquil and others | | Ecuador |
2002 |
|
Festival Mix Brazil de Cultura da Diversidade |
São Paulo | | Brazil |
|
|
Festival MIX Milano |
Milan | Lombardy | Italy |
1986 |
Festival MIX Milano of GayLesbian cinema and Queer culture |
Filmfest homochrom |
Cologne & Dortmund | North Rhine-Westphalia | Germany |
2011 |
defunct in 2019[10] |
FilmOut San Diego |
San Diego |
California |
United States |
2005 |
San Diego's only LGBT film festival |
FFTG Awards Film Fest |
New York | Worldwide | United States |
2020 |
International digital film fest |
FICGLB – Festival Internacional de Cine Gay y Lésbico de Barcelona |
Barcelona | Catalonia |
Spain |
|
|
FIRE!! |
Barcelona | Catalonia | Spain |
|
|
FiveFilms4freedom |
Online | Online | United Kingdom |
2015 |
World'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 States |
1977 |
|
Gay Film Nights |
Cluj-Napoca | Cluj County | Romania |
2004 |
|
Gaze |
Dublin | Leinster | Ireland |
1992 |
|
Geelong Pride Film Festival |
Geelong | Victoria | Australia |
2017 |
|
GFest – gayWise LGBT Arts Festival |
London |
Greater London |
United Kingdom |
|
|
Glasgay! Festival |
Glasgow | Scotland |
Scotland |
1993 |
|
Hamilton Queer Film Festival |
Hamilton |
Ontario |
Canada |
2021 |
Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival |
Central and Pok Fu Lam |
Hong Kong Island | Hong Kong China |
1989 |
|
Image+Nation |
Montreal | Quebec | Canada |
1987 |
|
ImageOut |
Rochester | New York | United States |
|
|
In & Out |
Nice | Alpes-Maritimes | France |
2009 |
|
Inside Out Film and Video Festival |
Toronto and Ottawa | Ontario | Canada |
1991 |
|
Iris Prize Film Festival |
Cardiff |
Wales |
United Kingdom |
2007 |
|
International Queer Film Festival Playa del Carmen |
Playa del Carmen | |
Mexico |
2013 |
|
Kagawa Rainbow Film Festival |
Kagawa | Kagawa Prefecture | Japan |
|
|
KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival |
Mumbai | Maharashtra | India |
2010 |
|
Kansai Queer Film Festival |
Osaka | Osaka Prefecture | Japan |
|
|
Korea Queer Film Festival |
Seoul | Seoul Capital Area | South Korea |
2001 |
|
Kreivės |
Vilnius | Lithuania | Lithuania |
2014 |
The festival is open to feature films, documentaries and short films focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex themes.[11][12] |
Leeds Queer Film Festival |
Leeds |
West Yorkshire |
United Kingdom |
2005 |
|
LesGaiCineMad |
Madrid | Community of Madrid | Spain |
1996 |
|
Lethal Lesbian |
Tel Aviv |
|
Israel |
2008 |
Screens independent films by and about women who love women. |
LGBT Film Festival |
Warsaw |
|
Poland |
2010 |
Largest festival of LGBT cinema in Central and Eastern Europe |
LGBT+ Film Festival |
Bangkok | Bangkok Metropolitan Region | Thailand |
2018 |
Curated and hosted by Bangkok Screening Room |
Ljubljana LGBT Film Festival |
Ljubljana |
Central Slovenia |
Slovenia |
1984[13] |
Europe's oldest gay and lesbian film festival[14] |
Llamale H |
Montevideo | | Uruguay |
|
|
London Lesbian Film Festival |
London | Ontario | Canada |
1991 |
|
Lovers Film Festival - Torino LGBTQI Visions |
Turin | Piedmont | Italy |
1986 |
|
Making Scenes Film and Video Festival |
Ottawa | Ontario | Canada |
1992 |
Defunct in 2005; replaced with Ottawa edition of Inside Out. |
Mardi Gras Film Festival |
Sydney | New South Wales | Australia |
1993 |
|
Massimadi Festival |
Montreal | Quebec | Canada |
2009 |
Centres 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 | Australia |
1991 |
|
Merlinka Festival |
Belgrade, Novi Sad, Sarajevo, Tuzla, Podgorica | Former Yugoslavia | Serbia Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro |
2009 |
Only queer film festival that is organized in several countries. |
Mezipatra |
Brno and Prague | Moravia and Bohemia | Czech Republic |
2000 |
|
MICGénero |
Mexico City | State of Mexico | Mexico |
|
|
Milwaukee LGBT Film & Video Festival |
Milwaukee | Wisconsin | United States |
1987 |
|
MIX Copenhagen |
Copenhagen | Copenhagen Metropolitan Area | Denmark |
1986 |
|
MIX NYC |
New York City | New York | United States |
1987 |
|
Movida Gay |
| |
Cuba |
2007 |
|
Muestra Internacional de Cine Diversex Nicaragua |
Managua, León, Jinotepe, Masaya, Matagalpa, Granada and others | |
Nicaragua |
2008 |
|
Muskoka Queer Film Festival |
Bracebridge, Huntsville |
Ontario |
Canada |
2020 |
Launched online during the COVID-19 pandemic following the cancellation of its planned live inaugural edition[15] |
National Queer Arts Festival |
San Francisco | California | United States |
1998 |
|
NewFest |
New York City | New York | United States |
1988 |
|
North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival |
Durham | North Carolina | United States |
1995 |
|
Notre Dame Queer Film Festival |
Notre Dame | Indiana | United States |
2004 |
|
Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival |
Oslo | | Norway |
|
|
OUTeast Film Festival |
Halifax | Nova Scotia | Canada |
2012 |
|
Out in Africa |
Johannesburg and Cape Town | Gauteng and Western Cape | South Africa |
1994 |
|
Out and Loud Pune International Queer Film Festival |
Pune |
Maharashtra |
India |
2017 |
|
Out North Queer Film Festival |
Whitehorse | Yukon | Canada |
2012 |
|
Out on Film |
Atlanta | Georgia | United States |
1987 |
|
Out Takes: A Reel Queer Film Festival |
Auckland and Wellington | Auckland Region and Wellington Region | New Zealand |
1995 |
|
Outburst Queer Arts Festival Belfast |
Belfast | Northern Ireland | United Kingdom |
|
|
Outfest |
Los Angeles | California | United States |
1982 |
|
OutfestPerú |
Lima | | Peru |
|
OutLove International Film Festival[16] |
Fort Myers | Florida | United States |
2020 |
|
Outview Film Festival[17] |
Athens | Greece | Greece |
2007 |
|
Paris Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival |
Paris |
France |
France |
1989 |
Women-only film festival featuring films by and about lesbians and feminism |
Pink Life QueerFest |
Istanbul | | Turkey |
|
|
Philadelphia QFest |
Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | United States |
1996 |
|
Pink Apple |
Zürich and Frauenfeld | Canton of Zürich and Canton of Thurgau | Switzerland |
1997 |
|
Pink Lobster Film Festival |
Fredericton |
New Brunswick |
Canada |
2017 |
|
Pink Screens |
Brussels | Brussels | Belgium |
2002 |
Gay and Lesbian Film Festival of Brussels |
Pride International Film Festival |
Manila | Metro Manila | Philippines |
2004 |
Films specialising in HIV and AIDS awareness |
Puerto Rico Queer Filmfest |
San Juan | Puerto Rico | United States |
|
|
Q! Film Festival |
Jakarta | Greater Jakarta (Jabodetabek) | Indonesia |
2002 |
Asia's largest LGBT film festival,[18] and the first in a predominantly Muslim country.[19] It was established in 2002 and closed, until further notice, in early 2017. |
QFest |
Houston | Texas | United States |
1997 |
|
Queer City Cinema |
Regina | Saskatchewan | Canada |
1996 |
|
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 |
|
[20] |
Queer Film Festival Oldenburg |
Oldenburg |
Niedersachsen |
Germany |
2010 |
|
Queer Kampala International Film Festival |
Kampala | | Uganda |
|
|
Queer Lisboa International Queer Film Festival |
Lisbon | Lisbon metropolitan area | Portugal |
1997 |
|
Queer Media Festival |
Manchester | Greater Manchester | United Kingdom |
|
|
Queer North Film Festival |
Sudbury | Ontario | Canada |
2016 |
|
QUEER-Streifen Regensburg |
Regensburg |
Bavaria |
Germany |
2012 |
|
Queer Vision Film Festival |
Bristol |
South West England |
United Kingdom |
|
|
Queersicht |
Bern | Canton of Bern | Switzerland |
1997 |
|
Rainbow Film Festival |
Honolulu | Hawaii | United States |
1989 |
|
Rainbow Film Festival |
Shrewsbury |
Shropshire |
United Kingdom |
|
|
Rainbow Reel Tokyo |
Tokyo | Greater Tokyo Area | Japan |
1992 |
'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 | Canada |
2015 |
|
Reel Affirmations |
Washington, D.C. | District of Columbia | United States |
1991 |
|
Reel Out Charlotte |
Charlotte |
North Carolina |
United States |
2008 |
'Reel Out Charlotte' is the new name for 'GayCharlotte Film Festival' (since 2018). |
Reel Pride |
Winnipeg | Manitoba | Canada |
1985 |
|
Reel Pride |
Fresno |
California |
United States |
1989 |
|
Reelout Queer Film Festival |
Kingston | Ontario | Canada |
1999 |
|
Reeling |
Chicago | Illinois | United States |
1981 |
|
Rio LGBTQIA+ Festival Internacional de Cinema |
Rio de Janeiro | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil |
1995 |
Originally 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 | | Netherlands |
1996 |
|
San Francisco Transgender Film Festival |
San Francisco | California | United States |
1997[21] |
Originally named 'Tranny Fest' |
Santo Domingo Outfest |
| |
Dominican Republic |
2010 |
|
Screened Out |
Cablecast film festival | Nationwide cablecast | United States |
2007 only |
|
SQIFF |
Glasgow |
Scotland |
United Kingdom |
2015 |
|
Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival |
Seattle | Washington | United States |
1996 |
|
Shanghai Queer Film Festival |
Shanghai | Shanghai (municipality) | China |
2017 |
New LGBT film festival, run by volunteers and as a not-for-profit community event;[22] opened in September 2017 |
ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival |
Shanghai | Shanghai (municipality) | China |
2015 |
Originated from ShanghaiPRIDE film screening nights in collaboration with Beijing Queer Film Festival.[23] |
Sicilia Queer filmfest |
Palermo | Sicily | Italy |
2010 |
International & New Visions filmfest |
Side by Side |
Saint Petersburg | Saint Petersburg ('Federal Subject') | Russia |
2008 |
|
Slovak Queer Film Festival |
Bratislava | | Slovakia |
|
|
Sunny Bunny |
Kyiv | | Ukraine |
2023 |
First Ukrainian LGBT film festival, expansion of an existing program within Kyiv International Film Festival "Molodist"[24] |
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 States |
1989 |
|
Tels Quel Festival |
Brussels | | Belgium |
|
|
Thessaloniki International G.L.A.D. Film Festival (LGBTI+) |
Thessaloniki |
|
Greece |
1998 |
|
TLVFest |
Tel Aviv | Gush Dan | Israel |
2006 |
|
Toronto Queer Film Festival |
Toronto | Ontario | Canada |
2016 |
|
TranScreen Filmfestival Amsterdam |
Amsterdam | Netherlands | Netherlands |
2011 |
|
Transition International Queer Minorities Film Festival |
Vienna | | Austria |
|
|
Translations: The Seattle Transgender Film Festival |
Seattle |
Washington |
United States |
2006 |
Films by, for, and about transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse people and the issues facing the community |
Vancouver Queer Film Festival |
Vancouver | British Columbia | Canada |
1988 |
|
Vinokino |
Turku and Helsinki | Southwest Finland (or 'Finland Proper') and Uusimaa (or 'Nyland') | Finland |
1991 |
|
Way OUT West Film Fest |
Albuquerque | New Mexico | United States |
2003 |
|
Wicked Queer |
Boston | Massachusetts | United States |
1984 |
Formerly known as the Boston LGBT Film Festival[25] |
West Pride |
Gothenburg | Metropolitan Gothenburg | Sweden |
2007 |
|
XPOSED Queer Film Festival |
Berlin | Berlin | Germany |
|
Zinegoak |
Bilbao | |
Spain |
2004 |
|