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October Events...

  • 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
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