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May Events...

  • ACID Cannes
  • Cannes Film Festival
  • Cinema Systers Film Festival
  • Divine Queer Film Festival
  • Fabulous Arts & Music Fest
  • Geelong Pride Film Festival
  • Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival
  • International Queer & Migrant Film Festival
  • Iris on the Move
  • La Semaine de la Critique of Festival de Cannes
  • London Lesbian Film Festival
  • Muskoka Queer Film Festival
  • National Queer Arts Festival
  • Newark LGBTQ Film Festival
  • ORLANDO
  • OUR PRIDE Shorts & Arts Fest
  • Out & Loud: Pune International Queer Film Festival
  • OUT!
  • Pink Apple
  • Puerto Rico Queer Film Festival
  • Qfest St. Louis
  • Queer East
  • Queer Palm
  • Quinzaine des cinéastes
  • Rainbow Visions Film Festival
  • Reel Out Charlotte
  • Schwule Filmwoche Freiburg
  • Sicilia Queer Filmfest
  • TranScreen Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival
  • 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