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Accepting film submissions + symposium proposals until March 9! TQFF is a volunteer-run, artist-centered festival that is entirely supported by donations.

The Toronto Q***r Film Festival showcases contemporary, innovative, q***r and trans film and video art. We are especially interested in supporting formally experimental films and/or social justice themed projects that center the experiences of Indigenous people, people of color, people with disabilities, transgender people, s*x workers, p**n makers, and other communities often marginalized in contemporary LGBT cultural programming and spaces. There are no submission fees, and proceeds from the festival will be prioritized to pay artists screening fees at or above the IMAA and CARFAC minimum rates.

10/01/2026

official trailer is here! 🎬💚

Get a taste of what’s coming in this year’s program, full of everything funny, tender, weird and s*xy!

🎞️ October 14 to 18 at Tranzac Club
🎟️ Full schedule, tickets and passes at the link in bio!

Only TWO WEEKS LEFT until 5 days of thrillingly q***r fun! 🍿

Thank you to our funders, Toronto Arts Council Telefilm Canada Canada Council for the Arts Indigenous Screen Office Ontario Arts Council | Conseil des arts de l’Ontario and our community sponsors, CFMDC Pleasure Dome Vtape IATSE 873 for supporting low cost and accessible programming in Toronto. Learn more about our PWYC ticketing, accessibility, masking guidelines and online programming following the festival at TQFF.ca ✨

Thank you to Cecilio Escobar for producing our trailer, which features the track Groove Motion by Vlad Annenkov

09/29/2026

Bring your inner q***r villains/rebels/badasses to life at Lallafral’s workshop!

🎨 High Concept, Low Brow: Creative Character Development from Concept to Finished Product
✨ With lalla
📅 October 17 at 12PM

Come explore the cunning, defiant, and evil within through visual and embodied exercises led by drag king and multidisciplinary artist, Lallafral. From drawing concept art and collaborative brainstorming, to solo/group walks set to music and partnered mirror work, this 3 hour long workshop encourages playful swaps of hero and villain characters. Perfect for drag, burlesque, and performance artists, actors and filmmakers, or even for your next Halloween costume!

📍Tranzac Club (292 Brunswick Ave)
🎟️ PWYC tickets at the link in bio!

Come by and bring that inner rebel to life! 💚

09/28/2026

If you love our mixed media 10th Anniversary Festival Poster by Pardis Pahlavanlu, get ready to join her workshop at this October!

🧟 Exquisite Q***r Corpses: Constructing Our Q***r Selves with Mixed Media Sculptures
✨ With Pardis Pahlavanlu Pardis Pahlavanlu
📅 October 18 at 12PM

Come build your own q***r subject sculptures using a mix of hand-building and found objects that Pardis will collect and share in this 3 hour workshop that captures the essence of intersectional q***r embodiment. Choose your “body parts,” arrange and adhere them using multiple traditional crafting methods, then place your character on a green screen platform to capture a photo of your creation.

📍Tranzac Club (292 Brunswick Ave)
🎟️ PWYC tickets at the link in bio!

Don’t miss the opportunity to learn more about the artistry behind our festival’s poster and a little more about yourself, too! We can’t wait to see you there 💚

09/25/2026

We’re proud and thrilled to present at three film programs curated by the emerging, 2SLGBTQ+ Indigenous programmers from our Indigenous Moving Image Mentorship Program, in partnership with ICCA | Indigenous Curatorial Collective 💚

🎬 Iqqaumajut – They Remember | Oct 14 at 5:30PM
✨Curated by Isaac Partridge
Shot at home and in community, this program’s 2-Spirit and Indigeq***r filmmakers touch on remembrance in many ways: who they are, their cultures, families, communities, the land and land stewardship, water – and even in the act of forgetting. Followed by a Q&A.

🎬 Breaking the Lens | Oct 15 at 5PM
✨ Curated by Billy Parrell
This ensemble of contemporary stories reclaim and diversify what it means to be Indigenous on-screen. Pulling together themes of language, humour, and performance, they push back against trauma narratives to explore Indigiq***r joy and radical embodiment. Featuring live performances before the screening!

🎬 Thresholds | Oct 16 at 5:30PM
✨ Curated by Dan Cardinal McCartney
This program showcases experimental film, animation, and short art-house works which explore dreams, surrealism, and memory from diverse Indigenous and q***r perspectives. Followed by a Q&A.

📍 Tranzac Club
🎟️ PWYC tickets at link in bio

We would like to extend a huge thank you to Indigenous Screen Office for funding this program!

We would also like to thank our IMIMP mentors, Theo J. Cuthand and Jason Baerg, for their committed support!

💚 Part of TQFF’s 10th Annual Festival, October 14–18, 2026

09/24/2026

Shorts Programs ✰

From magical forests and childhood playplaces to h***y fever dreams and the complicated meaning of home, TQFF 2026 brings you four q***r, experimental short film programs that aren’t afraid to get intimate.

🌲 Over the Garden Wall | Oct 16 at 8PM
Shorts that ground us in our bodies and encourage us to reclaim the environments often policed by malicious forces, both supernatural and real life

🛝 Playplace | Oct 17 at 4PM
Shorts that explore the fleeting respites from authority that q***r and trans people carve out for themselves

💦 P**n Is So Boring | Oct 17 at 10PM
A dose of sticky, witty, flushed-face, and defiant p*rno flicks

🏠 There’s No Place Like Home | Oct 18 at 4PM
Stories of those who attempt to renegotiate and rediscover the communities and places they call home in the face of socio-economic precarity and genocide

🎟️ Explore the full program and get your PWYC tickets at the link in bio!

09/21/2026

Get warmed up for with a chill community watch party of the Canadian Should-Be-a-Cult-Classic series I Hate People, People Hate Me.

A pitch perfect encapsulation of our festival theme “Pissed Off, Still Laughing,” the series makes no-holds-barred comedy out of the self-loathing, painfully relatable coping methods, ignorable jobs, and questionable hook ups that its duo of loveable, chaotic q***r outsiders live through.

Join us at CineCycle@CFMDC for the screening of a lifetime, where Bobbi Bobbi Summers and Lily Lily Kazimiera will be present for a post-screening Q+A, giving us the details on the lengths they’d go to for some chicken tendies 🐔🍽️

A special thank you to our partners Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and CineCycle@CFMDC for supporting this screening! 💚

📅 Friday, October 2 at 7 PM
📍 CineCycle (129 Spadina Ave)
🎟️ Tickets at TQFF.ca (link in bio)
😷 Masks recommended

We can’t wait to kick off the fall (and our festival programming!) with you soon 🍿🎬

09/19/2026

is fast approaching and we’re looking for Festival Volunteers to support with our 10th Annual Festival from October 14 to 18, 2026. This year, we return to our favourite venue in the city for the third year in a row, the Tranzac! 🩷💚

Our volunteers will provide front-of-house support at the venue by managing lineups, ushering, scanning tickets, distributing N95 masks, collecting donations and encouraging audience surveys to be filled. Our festival is a masked indoor event, and volunteers will be expected to be fully masked during their shifts. All volunteers will be offered a free festival All Access Pass and industry network opportunities with local Toronto artists throughout the festival weekend.

✨ Apply now at the link in our bio!

09/18/2026

✰ Feature Presentation ✰

CAMP
Dir. Avalon Fast, Canada, 2025, 111 min.
Avalon Fast

In the equally deadpan and heartwrenching universe of Avalon Fast’s CAMP, troubled young q***r women find solace and community at a Christian grief camp by performing witchy girl rituals. Applying make-up together, holding hands, binge drinking, manipulating sensitive Christ-loving virgins – all to make their wishes come true and to glory the devil, of course. But how do they know the devil is so much better than Christ, and that their community is any more righteous than others? CAMP whispers no easy answers, but asks for an openhearted ambivalence for how marginalized communities are built and how women mourn their losses.

Presented in collaboration with final girls film club

💚 Saturday, October 17 at 7PM
📍The Tranzac (292 Brunswick Ave)
🎟️ PWYC tickets at TQFF.ca (🔗in bio)

🌟The short film Kanekalon (Dir. Sara J. Asprilla sara j. asprilla palomino) will be screened alongside our feature, CAMP. Kanekalon finds a young trans woman feeling out her new life away from her caring family home, in a city where the threat of exclusion lurks everywhere even among the q***r community. In this pair of visually transfixing and sometimes darkly comic films, young women struggling to find safety and community find themselves asking: what are you willing to sacrifice in order to belong?

Grab your tickets and don’t miss joining our coven this October 🔮

09/17/2026

✰ Feature Presentation ✰

Lucid
Dir. Deanna Milligan & Ramsey Fendall, Canada, 2025, 110 min.
LUCID

In the trippy horror feature Lucid, a q***r art student’s attempts to cure her creative block unleashes a monstrous negativity that rages at the family, minimum wage job, and patriarchal gatekeepers looming over her life. Shot on film and featuring a collage-like aesthetic, Lucid challenges us to embrace our abject feelings, which, like a haggard monster or a crazed slasher villain, can rip away at the genuine evils in our lives.

Presented in collaboration with Pleasure Dome Pleasure Dome

💚 Thursday, October 15 at 7:30PM
📍The Tranzac (292 Brunswick Ave)
🎟️ PWYC tickets at TQFF.ca (🔗in bio)

🌟The short film Mis-Angel (Dir. Wyatt Carson) will be screened alongside our feature, Lucid. Mis-Angel follows a trans girl’s romantic fantasy with a beautiful stranger she meets at a bus stop. Each film in this short-and-a-feature two-hander offers a dreamy escape hatch of sorts, an invitation to embrace both the joy and rage that lives within us in equal measure.

Grab your tickets and come face your nightmares with us! 🩷💭

09/15/2026

Explore the full festival schedule 🩷💚

Ten years of independent q***r cinema. Ten years of screenings, workshops, and conversations. Ten years of community gatherings.

This October 14–18, TQFF returns for our 10th anniversary with our most expansive festival yet! Grab your tickets to experience five days of q***r programming.

This year’s program makes space for the full spectrum of q***rness: rage and joy, grief and pleasure, resistance and play. From experimental shorts and archival work to hands-on workshops and late-night gatherings, we’re coming together to make space for ourselves against the odds and to find ways to laugh about the pain.

🎬 Film Features
✨ Lucid - Thursday, October 15
✨ CAMP - Saturday, October 17

Plus shorts programs, panels, workshops, and plenty more for this year’s theme, “Pissed Off, Still Laughing.”

📅 October 14-18, 2026
📍 Tranzac Club (292 Brunswick Ave)
🎟️ Tickets available at TQFF.ca

See you at the Tranzac in a month! 🍿

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