Utah Queer Film Festival continues online October 28-November 3

2024 Film Program

Stay tuned for programming announcements as we lead up to the festival on October 25-27 at Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center.

  • Mid-July: First Program Announcements
  • Mid-August: Additional Program Announcements
  • Early September: Films, Workshops, and tickets are available to reserve with your pass!
  • October 25-27: Pick up your physical pass and enjoy the in-person Festival
  • October 27-November 3: Select films available to view during the online Festival
Feature

A Long Way From Heaven tells the story of Brigham Young University’s queer underground, demanding their place in the sunlight.

October 26, 2024 at 12:45 pm
$15
Feature

Angie and Pat are a well-off lesbian couple in their mid-60s, until Pat unexpectedly dies, and Angie embarks on a later-life emancipation journey.

October 27, 2024 at 10:00 am
$15
Shorts Program

Dive into a cinematic exploration of intersectionality with this collection of shorts highlighting BIPOC stories.

October 26, 2024 at 4:00 pm
$15
Feature

When forced to move to Buenos Aires and her liberal public school behind, Camila’s fierce but immature temperament is put to the test and a feminist revolution is born.

October 27, 2024 at 12:15 pm
$15
Feature

Known for stirring harmonies and socially conscious lyrics, iconic folk rock duo Indigo Girls are the subject of this intimate and insightful documentary, which tracks their decades-long career.

October 26, 2024 at 6:15 pm
$15
Feature

Helen lives with her ex-husband, his 20-year-old girlfriend, their new baby – and his dying mother Gwen but things are about to change…

October 26, 2024 at 3:30 pm
$15
Documentary, Feature

Wigstock: The Movie is a 1995 documentary focusing on Wigstock, the annual drag music festival held New York City’s East Village through the 1980s and 1990s.

October 27, 2024 at 3:00 pm
Black Box at the Rose Wagner
$15
Feature

12-year-old Sav Rodgers watched the film Chasing Amy, and his life was forever changed.

October 27, 2024 at 5:30 pm
$15
Feature

Desire Lines is a hybrid feature documentary that blends personal interviews, archival materials, and narrative fiction as a framework for exploring the complicated and often unwritten history of transmasculine sexuality.

October 25, 2024 at 10:00 pm
$15
Shorts Program

Darkness falls across the land and the midnight hour is close at hand, which means it’s time for thrills and chills from this twisted collection of tales.

October 26, 2024 at 9:15 pm
$15
Feature

Three years after their initial romance, Antonio is determined to get back together with Luca, despite Luca’s engagement to someone else.

October 26, 2024 at 6:45 pm
$15
Feature

What if you really did put all the gays on an island? In this kaleidoscopic portrait of queer paradise, Fire Island Pines, past and present blur as the iconic beach town bands together to celebrate its legacy and redefine itself for a more inclusive era.

October 25, 2024 at 7:00 pm
$15
Feature

Summer Qamp is a documentary following a group of LGBTQ+ youth at an idyllic lakeside camp in Alberta.

October 26, 2024 at 10:00 am
$15
Feature

The ABCs of Book Banning reveals the voices of the impacted parties of books banned from school districts, inspiring hope for the future through the profound insights of inquisitive youthful minds.

October 27, 2024 at 10:30 am
$15
Feature

While spending a steamy day together at a nude beach in Athens, best friends Demos and Nikitas start brainstorming ideas for a screenplay based on the colorful events of a previous summer.

October 26, 2024 at 9:30 pm
$15
Feature

Songwriter / artist Allee Willis, best known for writing the “Friends” theme song, the Earth Wind & Fire mega-hit “September” and “The Color Purple” musical, began filming her life as a kid in 1950s Detroit and never stopped.

October 26, 2024 at 1:15 pm
$15
Shorts Program

Utah proud and Utah loud. These short films by local filmmakers highlight the rapidly increasing queer community in our state.

October 26, 2024 at 10:30 am
$15
Feature

An ambitious cheerleader faces both new adversity and the increased drive for perfection and triumph when she and her girlfriend are selected for an all-star cheer squad and its demanding head coach.

October 27 to November 3, 2024
Streaming Online via Eventive
$15
Feature

Alone in her studio apartment, Narcissa Wright live streams every minute of her quest to be the world’s fastest Legend of Zelda player. But when her isolated digital existence begins to crack, Narcissa must decide her fate: will she embrace love and adventure in the real world, or will she be seduced again by the glow of the computer screen?

October 27 to November 3, 2024
Streaming Online via Eventive
$15
Feature

Julia has just lost her life partner, Barby. Torn between her grief and a world that is crumbling without her, she strives to preserve the restaurant they built together and her bond with their son León; a relationship now threatened by a willful grandmother and the return of an absent father.

October 27 to November 3, 2024
Streaming Online via Eventive
$15
Feature

Against the backdrop of a shared obsession with Bollywood fantasy, Mariam, a Pakistani Muslim woman, and her Canadian-born daughter Azra come of age in two different eras.

October 27 to November 3, 2024
Streaming Online via Eventive
$15

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