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Awaken Your Senses with the Best of Queer Cinema. Queer Screen’s 30th Mardi Gras Film Festival: 15 Feb – 2 Mar 2023....

13 January 2021:​ Queer Screen’s 28th Mardi Gras Film Festival has changed its format to offer audiences for the first time, both an onl...

7 November 2019: ​Queer Screen’s 27t​h​ Mardi Gras Film Festival (Festival) will showcase the continuing advancement in on-screen qu...

Queer Strength Has Never Been More Important: Queer Screen Film Fest will inspire, move and enlighten: 19 September – 24 September 2017. Â...

Best of Mardi Gras Film Festival Returning to Parramatta! Screening at Riverside Theatres 31 March – 2 April 2017 01 March 2017: Riverside...

Mardi Gras Film Festival Returning to the Blue Mountains! Best of the Festival Screening at the Mount Vic Flicks: 10 – 12 March 2017 01 Ma...

In its most successful run in recent years, Queer Screen’s 24th Mardi Gras Film Festival saw audience numbers of 21,000 (a 23 per cent inc...

Body positive documentary Nothing to Lose – The Documentary and supernatural web series Jade of Death were the winners of Queer Screen’s...

From James Franco making porn to a sing-a-long with Doris Day, Queer Screen’s 24th Mardi Gras Film Festival has something for everyone whe...

Queer Screen’s 24th Mardi Gras Film Festival is bringing to Australia not only the most impressive films from the LGBTIQ film circuit, but...

Queer Screen is proud to announce three exciting filmmaker opportunities now open for submissions. Opportunities include the Queer Screen Co...

After a very successful run in Sydney with 16,500 attendees visiting eight venues and seeing an additional 25 sessions, Queer Screen was del...

Solidifying its place as the premiere LGBTIQ film festival in Australia and indeed Asia Pacific, Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Film Festival w...

The Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace will host two of the top films of the 23rd Mardi Gras Film Festival presented by Queer Screen in February....

With 20 additional screenings, 4 new venues, 9 international guests, countless Australian premieres and an increased cash prize for the My Q...

The 22nd Mardi Gras Film Festival wrapped on March 5. With over 15,000 in attendance and 20 sell-out screenings, 2015 marked the festival’...

The Mardi Gras Film Festival has grown from strength to strength since its inception, with the latest incarnation eclipsing previous years t...