Feature
West Coast Premiere

Three lesbians navigate their desires, fears, and contradictions in Paris.

Nour, an intense and impatient musician, falls for a woman who is both guarded and demanding. Their budding relationship wavers under the weight of Nour's rushed expectations.
Insecure Laura suggests to her two partners that they have a child to strengthen their throuple - unknowingly upending their already delicate balance.

Meanwhile, Gabrielle, a respected therapist, is neglected by her workaholic partner, who is too busy to notice the cracks forming. Gabrielle begins to dangerously bond with one of her patients…

Caught between doubts and desires, these romantic entanglements ask us : should I make the run for it, or should I commit?

Director: Caroline Fournier
Writer:    Caroline Fournier          
Cast: Nabila Mekkid, Sarah Labhar, Caroline Cirstofoli, Tessa Bazin, Mailys Faveau, Maia Le Fourn, Angelique Zaïni
Editor: Michael Guerraz

Website: https://www.amantes-movie.com/

Instagram: instagram.com/amantes.le.film

Short
West Coast Premiere

Two men meet on a park bench and remember a dark episode from their past.

Director: Omar Yñigo
Producer: Omar Yñigo
Writer: Omar Yñigo
Cast: Miguel Nuñez, Ricardo Márquez
Cinematographer: Iván Gómez
Editor: Omar Yñigo

Awards: Best Screenplay at Festival of Cinema NYC

Facebook: Entre dos

Short
West Coast Premiere (also Los Angeles Premiere)

Description/storyline of your film: A dancer, Leah, tries to get back to her life while in recovery in an online eating disorder program. 

Director: Lalia Hays
Producer: Amanda Quaid, Lalia Hays, Wiley Water Productions 
Writer: Lalia Hays           
Cast: Lalia Hays, Winsome Brown, Georgia Lifsher, Lily Yin, Sharon Lesser, Amari O’Connor, Sara Natochenny
Cinematographer: Fletcher Wolfe
Editor: Jasmin Way 

Semi-Finalist Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, Official Selection Soho International Film Festival.

How Are We Feeling Today? aims to change how eating disorders & mental health are usually portrayed in film by telling an authentic, raw, sometimes funny story of recovery. It tells the story of a dancer with an eating disorder, but this isn't the sad/cliché story of a girl who just won't eat enough. It's a story about fighting like hell to recover and live life on your own terms.

As a queer artist, the director is proud to have worked with incredible queer & non binary artists to tell this story, and hopes to bring awareness to mental health struggles in the LGBTQ+ community. 

Instagram: @hawftfilm

Feature Documentary
West Coast Premiere

Humans of Pride chronicles half a century of Pride in NYC, tracing its journey from the Stonewall Riots of '69 to the historic WorldPride celebration of 2019. When this powerful ensemble of activists step into their moments, we go behind the scenes to understand what it takes to evolve as a movement. 

Director: Kevin Coop
Producers: Kevin Coop and Ryan Grippi       
Editor: Ethan Newman
Composer: Dallin Burns (Dallin will be in attendance and on the panel)
Cast: Billy Porter, Dominique Jackson, Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Randy Wicker, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Raquel Willis, Cecilia Gentili, Qween Amor, NYC Pride leadership, United Nations leadership, and many more great artists and activists of the LGBTQIA+ rights movement.

With screenings across three continents, Humans of Pride continues to transcend borders, earning recognition from the global documentary community for capturing a worldwide movement within a single film. Serving as both a chronicle and a call to action, the documentary arrives at a crucial moment—as a powerful tool to confront ongoing attacks on LGBTQIA+ people.

Following its world premiere as the opening film at the WorldPride DC Film Festival in Washington, D.C., Humans of Pride has been featured widely in the press and is gaining remarkable traction. Audiences across the United States praise its educational and historical impact, with screenings at universities, film festivals, and human rights organizations alike.

Website: www.HumansofPride.com

*Instagram: @HumansofPridee 

Twitter: https://x.com/humansofpride/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/humansofpridee/

Music Video

My name is Lê Khoa, proud finalist in the Top 10 of Vietnam Idol 2023. I’m honored to present my latest music video at the Queer LA Film Festival—a project that holds deep personal meaning for me.

As the executive producer, I had the privilege of collaborating with an extraordinary team: Alan Medina, known for producing Kesha’s Boy Crazy; Chris, our visionary director; and Bryan Rone, the brilliant choreographer behind Rihanna’s iconic performances. Together, we brought to life SPIT, a bold and unapologetic anthem.

This music video confronts harsh realities and challenges the quiet stereotypes that often suppress our community. Through fierce artistry and fearless storytelling, I aim to make a powerful statement: "I’m beautiful in my own way—and no one can underestimate me."

Director: Chris Rodriguez
Producer: Alan Medina
Writer: Lê Khoa            
Cast: Nathan Groth
Cinematographer: MAC ( Uprise Imaging)
Editor: Chris Rodriguez - Mac

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/lekhoa.artist/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lekhoamusic/

Feature
Los Angeles Premiere

A clueless wannabe movie star moves to LA and goes viral for all the wrong reasons, only to evolve into a slightly less terrible version of himself. #blessed

Director: Yannis Zafeiriou
Producers: Sabrina Carmichael, Allan C. Gagner II, Thomai Hatsios
Writers: Josh Allen Goldman & Yannis Zafeiriou
Cast: Josh Allen Goldman, Dylan Rourke, Laura Juliane May, Noelle Messier, Carrie Gibson, William Goldman, Ryan Vigilant, Liliana De Castro, Crystal Yaskulski
Cinematographer: Jeff Galyan
Editor: Yannis Zafeiriou

Official Selection at Cinema Diverse Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2025

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7131260

Instagram: 
https://www.instagram.com/joshallengoldman/ 
https://www.instagram.com/penguinyz/ 
https://www.instagram.com/flyingpenguinyz/

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/penguinyz.bsky.social

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FlyingPenguinProductions 

Short
West Coast Premiere

Three friends run late for a very important date... with their exes? This fast-paced, delusional comedy (shot entirely in one take) will make you realize that no one can escape their twenties.

Director: August Gray Gall
Producer: August Gray Gall
Writer: August Gray Gall
Cast: August Gray Gall, Nikki DeParis, Fiona Rose Dyer, Finn Haney
Cinematographer: Ian George Schultz
Editor: Christopher Moran

Instagram: @augustgraygall 

Animation, Short
West Coast Premiere

A brief reflection of the childhood relationship that taught me I was queer.

Director: Bianca Persicketti
Producer: Bianca Persicketti
Writer:  Bianca Persicketti            
Editor: Bianca Persicketti

: Created solo with multimedia, using analog and digital animation.

Website: beepersicketti.carrd.co

Instagram: @bianca.persicketti

Short Feature

Antek fell in love head over heels. The object of his affection is Kuba, a teenage drug dealer. The boys have nothing in common. How to initiate a meeting? The story begins as a romantic comedy of errors, turns into a social satire to end, after various adventures, with an emotional plot twist.

Director: Mateusz Pacewicz
Producer: Filip Marczewski
Executive producer: Katarzyna Madaj - Kozłowska
Writer:     Mateusz Pacewicz         
Cast: Michał Murawski, Gracjan Kosyl, Grzegorz Małecki, Anita Sokołowska, Andrzej Konopka, Jan Kowalewski
Cinematographer: Mikołaj Syguda
Editor: Aleksandra Gowin

Director Statement
The relationship between the social mask and true self has always been my obsession in filmmaking. In “Stimulants & Empathogens” this theme gets a Molieresque spin of a romantic dramedy.

The plot was informed by an extensive research. I talked to activists and experts on the film’s subjects: drug underworld, struggles of an LGBTQ+ teenager in Poland in mid-2020s in both elite schools and “juvies” and last, but far from least, the superiority complex and conditional hospitality manifested at times in the Polish attitude towards Ukrainian refugees - another issue interwoven into the film.

Given its Molieresque, theatrical inspirations, our goal was to make sure that the story is told through a cinematic language, which contrasts the protagonists’ class markers - f.ex. Kuba’s aggressive drill rap and Antek’s cello classical pieces. Clashing social masks in order to deconstruct them fits the message of our film, which happens to be my favorite definition of cinema: “A lie to tell the truth”.

Director's bio: Mateusz Pacewicz
An award-winning filmmaker and scriptwriter. He was born in 1992. He made his debut in 2019 as the screenwriter of the film "Corpus Christi" (dir. Jan Komasa), which was nominated for an Oscar for Best International Feature Film and for five categories at the European Film Awards, including Best Screenplay. His second film, "The Hater" (also directed by Jan Komasa), won the award for Best International Film at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. He is also a co-author of the script and co-director of the short film "Skwar" which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS
World premiere at the Polish competition of 64th Krakow Film Festival 2024
International premiere at the Out on Film Atlanta’s LGBTQ Film Festival 2024
Audience Award at the 40th Warsaw Film Festival 2024, Poland
Audience Award at the 15th Kamera Akcja Festival, International Authors Spotlight Competition, 2024 Martin’s Award for the Best Short Film for Young People and Best Short Film Award at the Ale Kino! International Young Audience Film Festival, 2024 
Audience Award at the River Film Festival, International Horizons, Padova, Italy 

Audience Award at the Gay Short Film competition at 14. QUEER-Streifen-Filmfestival, Regensburg, Germany

Best Comedy Short at Indie Shortfest 2025, USA

Best Short Film of LGBTQ Toronto Los Angeles Film Festival 2025

Website: Sales Agent : SND Films
https://www.sndfilms.com/stimulants-empathogens/

Producer: Wajda Studio
https://wajdaschool.pl/pl/filmy/stymulanty-empatogeny/

Facebook: 
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61554638798421

Short Short Film
World Premiere

While being dumped by his boyfriend over the phone, Sam is thrust into the middle of a life-altering corner store robbery.

Director: Paul McCallion
Producer: Amanda Distler
Writer: Paul McCallion           
Cast: Paul McCallion, Gabriela Cristina Rivera, Michael Benjamin, James Tom, Eric Eidelstein
Cinematographer: Snyder Derival
Editor: Ted Eschweiler

Dramatic Short

XY is a short film that explores the double standards between trans existence and cisgender male privilege in America - a country where identity is regulated, but guns are not.

Director: Stephan Fleet
Producer: Rose . Garcia, Brendan Rodriguez
Writer: JL Perkel, Stephan Fleet              
Cast: JL Perkel, Dominic Burgess
Cinematographer: Leo Behrens
Editor: Jason Brotman

Website: xyshortfilm.com

Instagram: @stephanfleet