Alphabetical Listing of All Films
All Feature Films
Absent
Best of US & World Cinema
A calculating high school student attempts to seduce his somewhat older swimming instructor in this tense sexual drama.
Amphetamine
Best of US & World Cinema
A poor straight swimming instructor falls passionate in love with a rich businessman. But will his drug addition and the haunted memories of his past doom their relationship?
The Art of Hardcore - Then and Now
Special Events
Due to illness Francois Sagat will not be present. We will have a revised guest announcement posted ASAP; please check back for updates.
August
Best of US & World Cinema
With the style of a European art filmmaker, director/co-writer Eldar Rapaport tells the story of a gay love triangle by using innovative edits, a beautiful (frequently naked) cast and an exploration of how we find our life’s love.
Bite Marks
Best of US & World Cinema
Blood thirty vampires set their sights on a sexually repressed truck driver and a young gay couple in this alternately funny, sexy and gory horror flick.
Blackmail Boys
Best of US & World Cinema
Bernard and Richard Shumanski, the filmmakers behind the 2009 gay hit Wrecked, return with a similarly sexy, yet heartfelt follow-up that won both the Jury and Audience Awards for Best Feature Film at the 2011 SHOUT Birmingham Film Festival.
Break My Fall
Best of US & World Cinema
Filled with sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, Break My Fall brilliantly follows a sexy gender-bending dyke couple who work hard and play harder in East London’s vibrant queer underground.
Buffering
Best of US & World Cinema
From the makers of Shank and Release comes this British sex comedy about a young couple who decide to broadcast their sex life via webcam to pay the bills.
Circumstance
Centerpiece Screenings
This year’s Sundance Audience Award: Dramatic winner with good reason, this suspenseful, political love story starkly juxtaposes public lives and lives lived away from the omnipresent surveillance by the state.
Closing Night Celebration
Parties and Events
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Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
Opening Night Screening
Opening Night descends on the girls with a film that received critical acclaim at its Sundance premiere. Codependent Lesbian Alien Seeks Same, is an hilarious first-date movie for connoisseurs of kitsch, sci-fi geeks, Ed Wood aficionados and all starry-eyed searchers looking for love.
Dirty Girl
Special Events
Prior to its theatrical release in August, be the first to watch and enjoy this often-hilarious tale of a teenage slut and a chubby closet case friend who go on the road in search of her deadbeat dad.
Eating Out - Drama Camp
Best of US & World Cinema
Chris Salvatore and Daniel Skelton return, along with Rebekah Kochan and cult icon Mink Stole in the fourth installment of Q. Allan Brocka's hilarious and sexy Eating Out series!
eCupid
Centerpiece Screenings
Things are not always what you expect them to be in this gorgeously-crafted romance from J.C. Calciano (Is It Just Me?) with hot leads, a quirky unpredictable script and streak of sweet whimsy.
The Evening Dress
Best of US & World Cinema
Juliette, a 12-year-old tomboy, develops a crush that borders on obsession with a stylish, uninhibited female teacher in this daring coming-of-age story.
A Few Days of Respite
Best of US & World Cinema
A pair of gay men escape from Iran and seek safety in a small French village, but freedom, love and happiness clearly has a price in this quiet drama.
Finding Me: Truth
Best of US & World Cinema
A wild ensemble cast highlights Roger Omeus' romantic drama about a group of love- and sex-obsessed Jersey City friends navigating the treacherous waters of relationships.
Finding Mr. Wright
Best of US & World Cinema
The scewball comedies of Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant are given a 21st-century queer bent. Last year’s QFest Awardee Matthew Montgomery stars as the beleaguered talent manager to a hard-living TV star (gay icon Rebekah Kochan).
Four More Years
Best of US & World Cinema
A politician's personal and professional life is thrown into an uproar when he falls in love with another man… and a leader of the opposing party.
Gigola
Best of US & World Cinema
In this incredibly sexy, hard-boiled narrative set in the seedy underbelly of 1960s Paris, a mischievous sapphic night-stalking gigolopreys upon rich lovers.
Go Go Crazy
Best of US & World Cinema
A wildly entertaining mockumentary about a bunch of male contestants vying for a title and a cash prize of $1,000 at the City of Brotherly Love’s Go Go Boy pageant.
Going Down in La La Land
Closing Night Screening
For Closing Night, QFest veteran director Casper Andreas (The Big Gay Musical, Between Love & Goodbye, A Four Letter Word) brings a probing, sexy, uncensored, scandalous, outrageously funny exposé about the lengths to which an actor will go to not only survive but get ahead in Hollywood. Jury and Audience Awards will be presented prior to the screening.
Gun Hill Road
Best of US & World Cinema
In this tremendously poignant film, a Sundance Film Festival hit, Harmony Santana stars as a teenage boy transitioning to a woman at a time when her father returns home from prison.
Harvest
Best of US & World Cinema
Two young farmhands meet and tentatively begin a relationship in this absorbing German drama.
Hold Your Peace
Best of US & World Cinema
Be the first to enjoy the World Premiere screening of this romantic comedy where the best man at a commitment ceremony is the reluctant ex-boyfriend.
Hollywood to Dollywood
Best of US & World Cinema
Gay twin daredevils go to extraordinary measures to get a copy of their screenplay into the hands of Dolly Parton.
homo@lv
Best of US & World Cinema
This accomplished and startling documentary recounts the various efforts of Latvian gays and lesbians to organize a pride march in a country where many virulently oppose them.
House of Boys
Best of US & World Cinema
A colorful, sweeping - even epic - story of an innocent suburban boy who succumbs to the temptations of Amsterdam and gay life.
I Am
Best of US & World Cinema
An Indian filmmaker makes a beautiful and powerful journey as she comes to terms with her family roots, while capturing the inspiring movement of the LGBT community in New Dehli.
Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together
Centerpiece Screenings
Have you ever been in love with your best friend?
Jitters
Centerpiece Screenings
This energetic coming-of-age drama follows a closeted boy and his group of trouble-prone friends, providing a positive, fun look at young people today.
Judas Kiss
Opening Night Screening
Our Opening Night film for the boys is this sexy story of a washed-up filmmaker who travels back in time and meets his college-aged self. Charlie David (Dante's Cove) and Sean Paul Lockhart (aka Brent Corrigan - Stan the Merman in Another Gay Sequel) headline an impressive cast.
Kink Crusaders
Best of US & World Cinema
This honest, insightful, and straightforward documentary about the International Mr. Leather contest held in Chicago each Memorial Day Weekend provides an intimate glimpse into the leather subculture.
Leave It on the Floor
Best of US & World Cinema
When a black gay youth is thrown out of his home, he discovers the Los Angles ball scene in this boisterous musical featuring 11 new songs by Beyonce music director Kim Burse.
Looking for Simon
Best of US & World Cinema
A German mother and her gay son's former lover travel to the south of France in search of her missing son.
Longhorns
Centerpiece Screenings
This raucous sex comedy tells the story of a "straight" Texas fratboy who realizes that maybe all his man-on-man fantasies, going down on his buddies, and falling for the only openly gay student on campus means he just might be queer…
Love Actually…Sucks!
Best of US & World Cinema
Sex and love are thrown in the spin cycle in this erotic drama about the troubled romances of a group of young people.
Love Her or Leave Her
Shorts Programs
The Love Patient
Best of US & World Cinema
A hunky but self-centered ad executive pretends he has life-threatening cancer in order to win back the love of his ex in this wild American indie comedy.
Mangus!
Centerpiece Screenings
This richly dark comedy chronicles a teenage boy’s pursuit (in a wheelchair) of his dream: to be a star.
Married in Spandex
Best of US & World Cinema
In this offbeat doc, we follow two West Philadelphians who travel to Iowa to fulfill their dreams and add some fire to the same sex-marriage debate raging in Pennsylvania.
Morgan
Special Events
A young NYC man, in a wheelchair after an accident, finds a reason to live and thrive after he meets an another man.
My Last Round
Best of US & World Cinema
Two men - a middle-aged boxer with epilepsy and a younger man fall in love in rural Chile, they feel the need to escape to the big city - but will that be their answer? An intense drama set far from the gay capitals of the world.
My Mama Said Yo Mama's A Dyke
Best of US & World Cinema
Get ready for a gut-busting good time in this hilarious mockumentary when a group of urban teenagers can’t deal with their lesbian moms anymore and enlist them in a special type of boot camp dedicated to removing their lesbian tendencies.
The Night Watch
Best of US & World Cinema
Love and tragic loss in an exceptional time are richly brought to life in The Night Watch, the fourth book-to-screen BBC adaptation from lauded novelist and QFest favorite Sarah Waters (Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith, Affinity).
The One
Best of US & World Cinema
A breezy charming romantic comedy about an engaged man, his lovely fiancee and the roguishly charming man he falls in love with. Love is never simple!
Our Lips Are Sealed
Shorts Programs
Over the Edge
Best of US & World Cinema
A weird absurdist murder-mystery/comedy/gay romance about a young man, his friend and lot of corpses. Joe Orton would be pleased.
The Perfect Family
Best of US & World Cinema
Kathleen Turner stars as the suburban mother of a dysfunctional family in this hilarious and poignant comedy. Also starring Richard Chamberlain.
Private Romeo
Best of US & World Cinema
One of the more original features in this year's festival: a gay take on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet set in a boys' military academy.
Puppy Love and Lust
Shorts Programs
Rising Star Award: Sean Paul Lockhart
Awards & Honorees
The number of adult performers who have transitioned from porn into the “mainstream” world of entertainment can pretty much be counted on one hand, with Jenna Jameson, Sasha Grey and Traci Lords being the best examples. Apart from Rocco Siffredi’s appearances in Catherine
Breillat’s art-house films Romance and Anatomy of Hell all have
been straight and female which makes the addition of our 2011 Rising
Star Award recipient to this roster all the more astonishing.
Romeos
Best of US & World Cinema
Gay men and a trans audience will fall for this sexy drama about a handsome FTM 19-year-old and the masculine gay man who falls for in this German romantic and social drama.
Short & Scary
Shorts Programs
Short & Sweet
Shorts Programs
The Sleeping Beauty of East Finchley
Best of US & World Cinema
A woman is trapped in a mundane life. Through a chance opportunity, she begins to have a purpose,but only if she accepts certain things about herself.
So Hard to Forget
Best of US & World Cinema
For anybody who has ever loved, faced heartbreak and learned to be happy again, this drama is an honest portrayal of a woman, consumed with grief, taking baby steps to regain her equilibrium.
Soft Stud Shuffle
Shorts Programs
This Is What Love in Action Looks Like
Best of US & World Cinema
A gay youth is sent to a Christian-backed gay conversion camp by his parents which ignites protests against the organization. An important and emotional documentary on the on-going religious intolerance against homosexuality.
Three
Best of US & World Cinema
Two vaguely unhappy spouses begin torrid affairs with the same man in this thought-provoking drama from Tom (Run Lola Run) Twyker.
To Be Announced
Best of US & World Cinema
Tomboy
Best of US & World Cinema
A tomboy passes herself off as a boy to her friends in a new neighborhood in this Truffaut-esque drama.
Unhappy Birthday
Best of US & World Cinema
Three Londoners travel to an isolated island in the north of England for a surprise family reunion, but they get much more than they expected in this sexy but creepy and unsettling thriller.
What's the Name of the Dame?
Best of US & World Cinema
ABBA meets drag, as two pop culture obsessions come together in this outrageous musical documentary set in NYC.
Wish Me Away
Best of US & World Cinema
Whether you are a country music fan or not, Wish Me Away is an endearing, profound and incredibly inspiring documentary about the trials and tribulations of the multi-award winning singer, Chely Wright, the first country music star to ever come out as gay.
All Short Films
2011 Philadelphia Cinema Alliance | 2011 TLA Entertainment Group
