
The 31st annual Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival unveiled the its full film lineup of 143 films including 33 feature films and 5 episodic series debuting on the Inside Out streaming platform from May 27 – June 6, 2021.

The 31st annual Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival unveiled the its full film lineup of 143 films including 33 feature films and 5 episodic series debuting on the Inside Out streaming platform from May 27 – June 6, 2021.

Following its World Premiere at CPH:DOX and a North American Premiere at SFFILM Festival, Nefise Özkal Lorentzen’s documentary film SEYRAN ATEŞ: Sex, Revolution and Islam will have its Canadian premiere at Hot Docs Festival 2021.

The award-winning documentary Changing The Game will make its streaming premiere on Tuesday, June 1, 2021 on Hulu as part of Hulu’s Pride Month celebration.

Dark Star Pictures released the trailer for Rodrigo Bellott’s LGBT drama film Tu Me Manques, Bolivia’s entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards. Based on Bellott’s award-winning Bolivian play of the same name, the film centers on Jorge, a Bolivian man who travels to New York to confront Sebastian, his dead son’s boyfriend, after his death by suicide.

Perfectly coinciding with International Transgender Day of Visibility, the official trailer debuted today for the ground breaking documentary, The Sound Of Identity, winner of the 2020 Outshine Film Festival’s prestigious Programmers Award of Excellence. Shout! Studios will release the documentary film on digital and on demand on June 1, 2021, timed with the kick off of global Pride Month celebrations.

Ahead of the release on Friday, April 2nd, Utopia released the new official trailer for the hilarious indie comedy film Shiva Baby. Written and directed by Emma Seligman, Shiva Baby stars Rachel Sennott as a bisexual college student who runs into her sugar daddy and her ex-girlfriend at a Jewish funeral service with her parents.

The 14th edition of the St. Louis-based LGBTQ film festival, QFest St. Louis will present an eclectic array of 24 films (14 shorts, six narrative features, and four documentary features). Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, all programs will run virtually from April 16-25, 2021.

IFCFilms released the trailer for the film Moffie from South African director Oliver Hermanus exploring life of a closeted young boy serving his mandatory military service during Apartheid in 1980s South Africa.

The coming-out drama film Sweetheart directed by Marley Morrison was voted the Audience Award winner of the 2021 Glasgow Film Festival. Sweetheart is a sharply observed coming-of-age story that charts the relationship between two young women, during a summer holiday at a caravan park in Dorset. The Audience Award is the only award given by GFF and is voted for by the audience.

The 35th BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival unveiled the full program of 26 features and 38 free shorts LGBTIQ+ films from 23 countries, for this years virtual edition of the festival.

Two new gay and lesbian films – Rebel Dykes, a brilliant and refreshing documentary history of UK post-punk dyke culture in 1980’s London; and Firebird, a sweeping love story about freedom and love against all odds set in the Soviet Air Force at the height of the Cold War will world premiere at BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival.