Alphabetical Listing of All Films

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Under the South Street Stars
Extraordinary, essential and brilliant, Priscilla is an over-the-top drag musical that has spawned immitations, but has never been matched.
Amancio: Two Faces on a Tombstone
Feature Films
This documentary explores one man’s search for justice following a vicious murder in a small, apathetic town.
And Then Came Lola
Centerpiece Screenings
Hold on tight for this wild and fast-paced lesbian romp through the steep streets of San Francisco as a notoriously late photographer rushes to deliver prints to her most important client — her fiery lover!
Autopsy
Feature Films
Moving with the fast pace of an American action film, this French murder mystery throws in a coming-out tale and gay romance to create a very peculiar cinematic treat. Who’s satisfied by a single genre these days anyway?
The Baby Formula
Feature Films
One pregnancy for a loving lesbian couple is tough enough, but what if both moms are expecting? Watch the fireworks fly in this quirky and endearing mockumentary that hilariously explores the pitfalls of getting pregnant and bringing up baby(s).
Baby Love
Feature Films
This highly romantic comedy-drama explores one man’s insistent need to become a father and its toll on his relationships.
The Big Gay Musical
Closing Night Film
We’re in for a treat as the film un-spools its musically told story of gay love, lust and heartbreak in a new take on Genesis with Adam and Steve, angel hotties in teeny briefs.
Boy
Feature Films
From the director of The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros comes this authentic and gentle coming-of-age tale that is sure to melt your heart.
Changing Spots
Feature Films
In this clever, multi-layered suspenseful tale of passion, family secrets and revenge, Molly unleashes the memories of her past to change the destiny of the present and future.
Chef’s Special
Feature Films
Hilarious and heartfelt, this Spanish comedy wraps tales of close-knit bonds in a tart shell of slapstick comedy and one-liners, and throws in a tasty bit of international athlete for good measure.
Chica Busca Chica (Girl Seeks Girl)
Feature Films
Gorgeous Latina lesbians. A snappy soundtrack. Fast-paced dialogue; are you salivating yet? Hailed as Spain’s answer to the groundbreaking The L Word, Chica tells the story of a group of twenty-something lesbian friends looking for love in all the wrong – and right -- places in Madrid.
City of Borders
Feature Films
Young gay Israelis and Palestinians bridge conflicts and virulently homophobic religious lines to come together at Jerusalem’s sole gay bar in this insightful documentary.
College Boys Live
Feature Films
This intimate documentary explores the world of a live webcam site, the boys who perform there, and the response of their religiously conservative neighbors.
Doris Day Brunch
Parties and Events
Dream Boy
Feature Films
Jim Grimsley’s stunning and tragic novel of gay first love comes to life in this evocative teen romance set in rural Louisiana.
Drool
Centerpiece Screenings
In this hilariously dark romantic comedy, a family overcomes its prejudices and insecurities with the aid of a friendly neighbor and some great beauty products.
Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat (Surprise Screening)
Special Presentations
The Eating Out films have been immensely popular comedies that have launched the career of creator Q. Allan Brocka (Boy Culture, Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple In All The World) and the third addition to the franchise promises to be just as wildly entertaining and successful as its predecessors!
An Englishman in New York
Feature Films
Think you can throw a good zinger? Think again. John Hurt once again portrays pithy gay icon Quentin Crisp in this winning, witticism-strewn, star-studded and poignant sequel to The Naked Civil Servant.
“Family”
Feature Films
This tumultuous and frequently humorous journey follows a group of incredibly strong African-American women who make a pact to come out of the closet -- within 30 days!
Ferron: Girl on a Road
Feature Films
Lesbian music pioneer Ferron is back in a wonderfully intimate documentary and performance film that is sure to win her new fans. It’s a long overdue look at an instrumental figure in both the lesbian and music worlds.
Friends & Lovers: Ski Trip 2
Feature Films
Corey and Omar have just moved to Los Angeles from New York to join their friends. Little did they know what a bee’s nest they’re about to step into in this wildly funny soap opera from writer/director/star Maurice Jamal (Ski Trip, Dirty Laundry).
Fruit Fly
Centerpiece Screenings
Who doesn’t secretly wish that life was one unending musical full of catchy songs that pepper the day? Fruit Fly is the next best thing. Pop to its core, H.P. Mendoza’s directorial debut (he wrote and composed Colma, PIGLFF 2006) is a sparkling musical love letter to San Francisco.
Ghosted
Feature Films
Ghosted, an ethereal lesbian love story set in Taiwan and Germany, cleverly utilizes flashbacks to bridge the ocean between Eastern and Western cultural beliefs.
Grease (Sing Along)
Under the South Street Stars
Don’t miss Grease…..it’s electrifying! Memorable hits such as Grease, Hopelessly Devoted to You and Summer Nights will have you dancing and singing under the summer stars.
H.P. Mendoza, Rising star Award
Qfest Honorees
Celebrity judges for QFest Queer Idol Karaoke will include H.P. Mendoza and Philadelphia's own Needles Jones.
Hair
Under the South Street Stars
It’s the dawning of the “Age of Aquarius” on with our screening of the amazing flower-child, free love generation musical, Hair. Sure it’s hot outside, but funnel that heat into song, dance, drugs and love. Groovy.
Hannah Free
Feature Films
Adapted from Claudia Allen’s award-winning play, Hannah Free is the story of a passionate but thwarted lifelong love affair between two women who have shared a lifetime of friendship and love.
Hollywood, je t’aime
Opening Night Film
QFest opens with this charming, funny and intimate story of a gay man’s journey of self-discovery. When his life hits a rut in Paris, Jérôme decides to travel to L.A. for sun and fun. Instead, he is immediately immersed with wacky Left Coast characters and even odder situations.
Homewrecker
Feature Films
A hunky, but hapless young ex-con schemes his way into a gay Hollywood couple's home in hopes of becoming a star in this fast-paced indie comedy.
I Can’t Think Straight
Feature Films
Gifted Director Shamin Sarif boldly returns with a vibrant modern-day, Sapphic tale of two successful women who summon the courage to challenge their cultures in the name of love.
It Came from Kuchar
Feature Films
The films were ultra-low budget affairs with gaudy hand-made monsters and actors in thrift-shop costumes. The brothers behind the camera were oddballs who made films on budgets less than most people’s weekly grocery shopping. The documentary about them is wonderfully entertaining.
Just Say Love
Feature Films
When a relationship between two men that begins as pure sex and then becomes something more, the “straight” man flees into the safe arms of his girlfriend and newborn child. Graceful and pure, Just Say Love is one of the most original and successful stage-to-screen adaptations we’ve seen.
Limbo
Feature Films
A queer fifth-grade dreamer slips and falls into a strange trip to an otherworldly hospital, where there is no past and no future. One of the most excitedly original films in this year's line-up.
A Litany For Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde
Special Presentations
A powerful profile of African American poet Audre Lorde, a fiercely passionate American visionary who became a role model not only for Black women but for everyone who believes, as she did, that "liberation is not the private province of any one particular group."
Love and Human Remains
Special Presentations
As part of our 15th anniversary celebration, QFest re-presents director Denys Arcand’s (Jesus of Montreal) darkly comic film, Love and Human Remains (PIGLFF ‘95) starring Thomas Gibson ( “Dharma & Greg,” “Tales of the City”) and Mia Kirshner (“The L Word”).
Lucky Bastard
Feature Films
A random hookup between a young architect and a hard-bitten grifter yields an intense and illuminating love affair in this sexually-charged drama.
Make the Yuletide Gay
Feature Films
With this wonderfully silly story of young gay love, writer/director Rob Williams (3-Day Weekend, PIGLFF 2008) returns to QFest to serve up some of the cutest actors in the festival, with a cheesy Wisconsin family on the side.
Misconceptions
Feature Films
This hilarious look at the culture war’s opposing factions follows a conservative, religious married woman who impulsively decides to be a surrogate mother. She “forgets” to tell her born again husband that the couple is both interracial and gay.
Mr. Right
Feature Films
With snappy repartee and a cast of handsome men and cute boys, this romantic comedy set in London playfully bounces around its romances, dramas and lusts.
Myra Breckinridge
Under the South Street Stars
An epic failure in 1970 has become a camp classic nearly 40 years later. Raquel Welsh camps it up as the sexually ravounous Myra (previously the nebbish Myron) who creates sex toys out of utility room objects and Mae West is glorious.
El niño pez
Feature Films
Fast on the heels of her astonishing debut XXY (PIGLIFF 2008), director Lucia Puenzo returns to QFest with El niño pez (The Fish Child), an intense erotic tale of illicit love between two young women set in Argentina and Paraguay.
No End
Feature Films
Told with brilliant subtlety, elegance and voyeuristic panache, this lyrical yet often haunting tale follows a lesbian couple as they balance both tenderness and challenging times.
Off and Running
Feature Films
Exploring family bonds and the lengths to which people must go to find themselves, Off and Running is a fresh and poignant documentary about a young woman's search to define herself.
Out in Philly - Season 3
Shorts Programs
Think queer films only come out of Hollywood? Wrong! Join us for the third year of this incredible program featuring the best queer filmmakers from the City of Brotherly Love (and Sisterly Affection!).
Out in the Silence
Feature Films
Filmmakers/husbands Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson travel to Joe's hometown, Oil City, Pennsylvania, to work with a local gay teen and his mom to fight homophobia.
Out on the Edge
Shorts Programs
Patrik, Age 1.5
Feature Films
A gay couple adopts a much different — and older — child than they were expecting in this funny, heartwarming, and unpredictable dramedy.
Pillow Talk
Special Presentations
Selecting the perfect film for this “Day with Doris” was easy. This stylish sex comedy, celebrating its 50th anniversary, features Doris Day opposite gay icon Rock Hudson.
Pop Star on Ice
Feature Films
One of the skating world’s most fascinating characters, Johnny Weir has both dazzled and disappointed fans. This behind-the-scenes documentary only dazzles as it reveals the many sides of this complex and unusual skating icon. We’re sure you’ll give it a 10.
Pornography
Centerpiece Screenings
Definitely not for the squeamish, and most certainly not a porn film, Pornography is former Philadelphian David Kittredge's hot journey into the life of missing gay adult star Mark Anton.
Private Lessons
Feature Films
An academically challenged teenager is schooled in carnal knowledge by his adult tutors in this Belgian import that is sure to be controversial.
Prodigal Sons
Feature Films
A family grapples with challenges, triumphs, intense sibling rivalries and unforeseeable twists of plot and gender in this illuminating portrait of a truly remarkable Montana family.
Puppy Love & Lust
Shorts Programs
Queer Idol
Special Presentations
Raging Sun, Raging Sky
Feature Films
There are no boundaries when love, sex, and destiny collide in this sweeping visual feast from award-winning director Julián Hernández.
Redwoods
Feature Films
The search for love and a relationship is obvious film fodder; the search for love when you’re already in one, not so common. Both original and incredibly romantic, Redwoods tells the story of a man in a stagnant relationship who meets and falls in love with a writer passing through his small Northern California town.
Rivers Wash Over Me
Feature Films
A sophisticated gay black teen confronts ignorance, danger and eventually true love in this tense, probing drama set in the rural South.
St. Trinian’s
Feature Films
Packed with madcap antics, explosive hi-jinks and Rupert Everett in a frock, St. Trinian’s follows a sassy group of bad girls as they try to save their boarding school from foreclosure.
Sexy Intentions
Shorts Programs
Shank
Feature Films
Class struggle, gay romance and hot action collide in this amazing British film as the lives of Cal and Olivier intersect in a gritty, urban street drama. The context is a powerful and very much welcome addition to the gay and lesbian film landscape.
Soundless Wind Chime
Feature Films
In this spare, elegant, and moving film, two men of different races, different backgrounds, and different temperaments find themselves falling for one another. Their love story has been woven into this gorgeous tapestry of a film.
Tough Love
Shorts Programs
We all know love doesn’t come easy. These gals are learning that fact the hard way with swindling bad girls, twisted love triangles and best friend crushes, just to name a few.
Training Rules
Feature Films
African-American Jennifer Harris spent her life training to become a champion basketball player, but her name will forever be synonymous with her fight to challenge the discriminatory practices of a powerful coach.
True Enough
Feature Films
The dynamic truths and lies of relationships are examined under a French microscope in this superbly acted, breezily paced, widescreen ensemble piece based on American author Stephen McCauley’s novel.
VIP Reception for Chad Allen
Parties and Events
Watercolors
Feature Films
Told through flashbacks, this is the story of a tragic relationship of two teenage boys. It is a film that powerfully evokes both the sweetness and sadness of first loves lost.
We Are the Mods
Feature Films
Director E.E. Cassidy’s polished and stylized debut tells the story of two young women delicately testing the boundaries of their friendship and finding new romance in their shared love of everything from the ’60s.
What a Difference a Day Made: Doris Day Superstar
Special Presentations
Seize the Day! This shimmering and deliciously entertaining documentary celebrates the life and times of gay icon Doris Day.
Wrecked
Feature Films
Indie American Queer filmmaking gets no better – or explicit – than this tale of young teen couple trapped in a world of wanton sex and drugs.
ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction
Feature Films
For those of you horror film fans disappointed by recent “gay horror” movies that lack bite, you’ll need to check out this blood, gore and guts-packed zombie movie made with a pro-gay sensibility.
TBA
Feature Films
Monday, July 20, 2009

Festival Attendees Have Spoken!


Here are the picks of the most popular films, chosen for additional screenings on the last day of the festival!