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Melbourne Queer Film Festival
Thursday, 13 November 2025 until Sunday, 23 November 2025
The Melbourne Queer Film Festival is the oldest, largest and most successful queer film festival in Australia. Our main festival screens over 100 sessions of LGBTQIA+ films over 11 days running through November.
The 2025 Melbourne Queer Film Festival will run from 13 Nov to 23 Nov.
MQFF supports local and international filmmaking talent through our various jury and audience choice awards. In total, MQFF offers more than AUD $15,000 in prize money. This includes the AUD $5,000 City of Melbourne Award for Best Australian Short, which automatically qualifies the recipient for our nomination in the Iris Prize - the largest prize for a LGBTQIA+ short film in the world.