2023 Festival Schedule

Novelist Stéphane Belcourt returns to the city of his youth, where he meets Lucas, the son of his first love. Memories flood in: irrepressible desire, bodies coming together, a passion that must be silenced?

In this hands-on workshop, participants will be guided through the process of making their own video self-portrait.

Join Under the Umbrella Bookstore and Damn These Heels for a Banned Books Reading & Book Swap!

A smart, varied, rare and risky collection of the best queer short films from around the world this year, this program includes Aikane, Greetings From Washington DC, Mama Doesn’t Want to Go to the Beach, Y, Stone, and Apayauq.

A transgender mother resumes her hormone treatment while her daughter begins puberty. Their bodies’ changes make going to the beach a new chore.

A kaleidoscope of music, dance, stories and laughter shared at the first gay and lesbian rights march on Washington.

A wounded island warrior falls into a mysterious underwater world and is rescued by a valiant young man.

A young woman’s discovery that her father was a transgender woman makes her rethink her childhood.

Apayauq Reitan’s journey of gender, mental health, and purpose on her way to become the first out transgender woman to complete the legendary Iditarod sled dog race.

An empty paper depicts a struggle between artistic composition and decomposition a woman reminisces on her tumultuous relationship with a former girlfriend.

Workshop designed to give filmmakers tools to help them write, develop, and produce a project with the final product in mind.

A teenage boy’s unexpected crush turns a camping trip into a weekend of self-discovery in this heartwarming coming-of-age comedy.

Drag is under attack. You’ve seen the headlines. Increasingly intolerant forces are trying to erode access to this artform by reducing access to resources.

A vibrant documentary following local drag in the scene of Utah. Join a group of local SLC queens through their ups and downs, local pressures from a conservative environment, and celebrate the art of drag.

The coexistence of a family of drag queens and a trans woman who travel by motor-home to Murcia to show their support for a child who was assaulted by another minor at the gates of his school.

Five queer past and present BYU students tell of their struggle to live truthfully to themselves and their identities while trying to avoid academic and social backlash from the conservative Mormon University.

In the wildly entertaining and refreshingly unfiltered documentary KOKOMO CITY, filmmaker D. Smith passes the mic to four Black transgender sex workers in Atlanta and New York City.

The hubris of an inept conflict negotiator leads two warring gangs into an 8-way standoff. The consequences are both comical and tragic in this whip-smart short.

Thomas and Oscar are a couple very much in love, but after their first foster child returns to his birth mother, they find they have different ideas about what it means to make a family.

1982, in the heat of a Sicilian summer, two teenage boys, Gianni and Nino, meet and fall in love. The relationship soon becomes a topic of gossip in the small town and while the two dream of living together, their community is determined to stop it.

Evading a mob contract on his life, a straight man winds up hiding out at a gay bathhouse.

A down-on-his-luck movie collector discovers a legendary lost film and must deliver it to the right hands before it is lost forever.

A nervous young gay man has an eye-popping first experience hosting a hookup.