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
Utah Queer Film Festival
Salt Lake City
Utah
United States
2003
Longest-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 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
East London LGBTQ Film Festival
London
East London
United Kingdom
2023
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
FACE à FACE
Saint-Étienne
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
France
2005
Fancinegay
Badajoz
Spain
1998
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
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[ 11]
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
1995
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 andPok 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.[ 12] [ 13]
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[ 14]
Europe's oldest gay and lesbian film festival[ 15]
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[ 16]
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
Fort Myers
Florida
United States
2020
Outview Film Festival
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
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,[ 17] and the first in a predominantly Muslim country.[ 18] It was established in 2002 and closed 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
[ 19]
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
Queer Voices: NYC Film Festival
New York City
New York
United States
2023
Queer Voices: NYC is focused on centering and celebrating LGBTQIA filmmakers of color.
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[ 20]
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;[ 21] 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.[ 22]
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" [ 23]
Taiwan International Queer Film Festival
Taipei andTaichung
Taipei–Keelung Metropolitan Area andTaichung-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[ 24]
West Pride
Gothenburg
Metropolitan Gothenburg
Sweden
2007
XPOSED Queer Film Festival
Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Zinegoak
Bilbao
Spain
2004