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  • aGLIFF: Prism Film Festival
  • Beijing Queer Film Festival
  • BFI London Film Festival
  • BIGff: Bari International Gender Film Festival
  • Black Alphabet Film Festival
  • Busan International Film Festival
  • Cine Movilh
  • Cineffable
  • Dayton LGBT Film Festival
  • Diverso Festival Internacional de Cine LGBT
  • ENDIMARIS - Sitges LGTBIQ+ Film Festival
  • Everybody's Perfect
  • Festival Massimadi
  • Gender Bender
  • Hamburg International Queer Film Festival
  • ImageOut: Rochester
  • Iris Prize
  • LA Queer Film Festival
  • LGBT Toronto Film Festival
  • Lust*streifen Film Festival Basel
  • Melt Open
  • MIX COPENHAGEN LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
  • New Farm Queer Film Festival
  • NewFest
  • Norfolk Queer International Film Festival
  • Outshine Film Festival - Fort Lauderdale
  • Perlen – Queer Film Festival Hannover
  • Pink Screens in Brussels
  • Pride Pictures: Karlsruhe
  • QFFM - Queer Film Festival München
  • Queer Film Fest Weiterstadt
  • Queer-Streifen Regensburg
  • QueerFilm Festival Bremen
  • QueerFilmFest Rostock
  • Reel Q
  • San Antonio QFest
  • Scottish Queer International Film Festival
  • Tels Quels Festival
  • tilde: Melbourne Trans & Gender Diverse Film Festival
  • TLVFest
  • Transweek
  • Utah Queer Film Festival
  • Vinokino Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
  • Vues d'en Face - Grenoble
  • Way OUT West Film Fest
OutLove International Film Festival

OutLove International Film Festival

OUTLOVE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, unfortunately cancels its third year originally scheduled for June 10-21, 2022. We greatly look forward with high energy, high enthusiasm, and high excitement to make our 2023 local film festival amazing. New top-notch films telling stories of happiness, love and respect! New, top-notch, highly insightful documentaries! Exciting, creative, community building, meet-and-greet, networking opportunities and celebration parties. And, Thank You Recognition Awards to our many local, state, national, and international community leaders, supporting local businesses, and supporting local non-profits. We will prominently promote our film festival in 2023 so you have lots of advance notice and lots of advance time to add us to your 2023 calendar.


OutLove International Film Festival of Southwest Florida (population of 1.3 million in five county area surrounding Fort Myers, Florida, USA and estimated 36,000 LGBT+) shows full-length LGBT+ feature films that educate, enlighten and entertain and further shows our community living lives of happiness, love and respect. We also show full-length LGBT+ documentaries that depict LGBT+ lives in their raw state, but our film festival's overall message is happiness, love and respect.

$1,000 Crystal Heart Audience Award for full-length LGBT+ feature film, $1,000 Crystal Heart Audience Award for full-length LGBT+ documentary, $1,000 Crystal Heart Juried Award for full-length LGBT+ feature film, and $1,000 Crystal Heart Juried Award for full-length LGBT+ documentary.