The 22nd annual QWOCFF arrives June 12–14 at San Francisco’s Presidio Theatre, with satellite screenings throughout the year, and a virtual Encore in the fall. 49 films across three Festival experiences. Free, and open to the public.
See nicky's 2025 QWOCFF list here.
In-Person Festival Programming:
Queer Black Joy Like Fire: Four films about Black queer people making space, and taking it.
Break Shit! Seven films that don’t explain themselves, they just go.
Land and Resistance: Three films. Three places where tradition lives in the body and the voice.
Desire & Defiance: Seven films about queer love in all its messy, tender, hilarious, and unexpected forms.
Queer Families Belong: Six films. Who counts as family. Who gets to define it.
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The 22nd annual QWOCFF arrives June 12–14 at San Francisco’s Presidio Theatre, with satellite screenings throughout the year, and a virtual Encore in the fall. 49 films across three Festival experiences. Free, and open to the public.
See nicky's 2025 QWOCFF list here.
In-Person Festival Programming:
Queer Black Joy Like Fire: Four films about Black queer people making space, and taking it.
Break Shit! Seven films that don’t explain themselves, they just go.
Land and Resistance: Three films. Three places where tradition lives in the body and the voice.
Desire & Defiance: Seven films about queer love in all its messy, tender, hilarious, and unexpected forms.
Queer Families Belong: Six films. Who counts as family. Who gets to define it.
Queer Asian Spirit: Six films that ask what it means to carry a history forward and make it yours.
Online Encore Programming:
Queer Asian World Cinema
Queer Black August: A conference becomes a crossroads. A drumbeat carries survival. The universe retold through Black trans creation. A girl chasing perfection through magic. Love pulled apart, examined, undone. Seven films that move through grief, lineage, and becoming where resistance is intimate, and transformation refuses to wait.
Satellite Screenings:
IndigiQueer Stewards: This screening is bracketed by Indigenous People’s Day and Native American Heritage Month. It is rare to see two films that so deeply connect to language as transmission of scientific, ecological, culture, and land, for Dené in what is known as Alaska, and Cree First Nations.
