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  • aGLIFF: Prism Film Festival
  • Bangalore Queer Film Fest
  • 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
  • Cinema Queer International Film Festival
  • Dayton LGBT Film Festival
  • Diverso Festival Internacional de Cine LGBT
  • ENDIMARIS - Sitges LGTBIQ+ Film Festival
  • Everybody's Perfect
  • Fabulous Independent Film Festival
  • Fargo-Moorhead LGBT Film Festival
  • festheart
  • 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
  • OUT at the Movies
  • Out on Film
  • 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 Film Festival Oldenburg: Rollenwechsel
  • Queer-Streifen Regensburg
  • QueerFilm Festival Bremen
  • QueerFilmFest Rostock
  • Reel Q
  • Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
  • San Antonio QFest
  • Scottish Queer International Film Festival
  • Soura Film Fest
  • 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
Black Alphabet Film Festival

Black Alphabet Film Festival

Friday, 17 October 2025 until Sunday, 19 October 2025

Black Alphabet Film Festival (BAFF) is Chicago's premier film festival for the Black LGBTQ community.

Our mission is to promote social equity awareness and education in all aspects of life for the Black LGBT+ community through the use of media and the creative arts.

Each year our festival expands to other cities across the country, enabling us to screen your film in many markets.

Winners in each category (Best Feature, Best Documentary, Best Short) will receive a quality engraved crystal award showing the festival year and the name of the film.


 

2025 Film Schedule

Discover more about each film by selecting its poster.

FRIDAY October 24, 2025

Nova Project Film Presentation. 

Live Entertainment + food and Drinks

 

SATURDAY October 25, 2025

11am-12pm

Surviving Pulse: Life after a Mass Shooting

12:45pm-2:00pm

Three Vendors of Ipanema

The New Creation Stroy

THE DIVINE FEMME

Out of Focus

2:00pm-2:45pm

Non-Binary Music Video

Meet Me.

Songbird

SCORED

3:00pm-4:30pm

Soul Kiss & Flower Boi

Plenum

Taper

Artist Talk Back

4:30pm-7pm

Assembly

SUNDAY October 26, 2025

12:00pm-12:45pm

Settle Down

Gasoline

Black Panther, Yellow Tiger

 

12:45pm-1:35pm

The Two Essences

The Last Goodbye

So There's This Girl

 

1:35pm-2:45pm

Coffee & Lavender

Petichor

Pink Isn’t Your Color

Chestbound

3:00pm-4:00pm

Queer Memoirs : Too Gay For Me

MAN>CODE

Demons

home

4:00pm-6:00pm

Come Together

Talkback with Nathan Hale Williams

 
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