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May Events...

  • ACID Cannes
  • ALT* Festival de Cine Documental LGBT+
  • Cannes Critic’s Week
  • Cannes Film Festival
  • Cinema Systers Film Festival
  • CinemaQ Film Festival
  • Directors' Fortnight
  • Divine Queer Film Festival
  • Freiburger Lesbenfilmtage
  • Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival
  • Out & Loud: Pune International Queer Film Festival
  • Perlen – Summer Pearls
  • Puerto Rico Queer Film Festival
  • Qfest St. Louis
  • Queer East
  • Queer Palm
  • Reel Out Charlotte
  • Rehoboth Beach Pride Film Festival
  • Sicilia Queer Filmfest
  • XPOSED International Queer Film Festival
Queer Lens

Queer Lens

Independent Film Festival of Chennai

Queer Lens track is a part of the Independent Film Festival of Chennai (IFFC) organised by Thamizh Studio. The track was introduced in the 2019 edition of IFFC to bring visibility to queer film makers, artists, technicians and to make IFFC inclusive of LGBTQIA+ voices in the film festival circuit in India.

Tamil Studio, the movement for good cinema functioning for over ten years in Chennai, has now taken the responsibility of organizing the Chennai International Independent Film Festival through its Salanam Trust.

Maragatha Pura award, Feature film (80 mins and above) - INR 10000
Thamizh Studio award, documentaries and short films (upto 30 mins) - INR 5000
Queer Lens Award for Independent Vision