FilmOut San Diego

Thursday, 12 September 2024 until Sunday, 15 September 2024

We are one of the longest-running film festivals in Southern California and the only LGBTQ film festival in the San Diego area. Our festival is well-respected in the film community and often have World and U.S. premieres. People from around the world attend the festival as we offer filmmakers Q&A sessions after most films. Interviews with filmmakers and talent are uploaded to social media platforms for maximum exposure. We also have a fantastic Opening Night gala and Closing Night reception each year.

This year our annual San Diego LGBTQ Film Festival will be a four-day event that includes international, documentary, short and feature films shown in two different locations. As always, we strive to show the newest LGBTQ-themed film selections available.

FilmOut San Diego annually affirms the ongoing integrity and boundless imagination of our community and the artists who tell our stories. We believe our work is part of an ongoing effort to build a vibrant, affirming and sustainable LGBTQ community in San Diego County. We hope you will join us and submit your project!

• Best Narrative Feature
• Best (First) Narrative Feature
• Best International Feature
• Best Documentary
• Best U.S. Short
• Best International Short
• Best Direction
• Best Actor in a Feature Film
• Best Actress in a Feature Film
• Best Actor in a Supporting Role
• Best Actress in a Supporting Role
• Best Screenplay

...plus Festival Awards and Special Programming Awards including:

• Freedom Award
• Outstanding Emerging Talent
• Outstanding Artistic Achievement

The mission of FilmOut San Diego is to enlighten, educate, and entertain San Diego, California and its outlying communities through the exhibition of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer-themed films. FilmOut San Diego seeks to recognize, promote, celebrate and support the important diverse artistic contributions LGBTQ filmmakers make to our community.

2024 films...

F.L.Y.

Directors: Rafael Albarran & Trent Kendrick, 105 min, USA

Shown with:

Emerald City

Turtles

Director: David Lambert, 83 min, Belgium/Canada

Shown with:

No Man’s Love

Desire Lines

Director: Jules Rosskam, 83 min, USA

Shown with:

All Boys Do

The Judgment

Director: Marwan Mokbel, 111 min, Egypt/Lebanon/USA

Witchy Ways

Director: Jane Clark, 94 min, USA

Shown with:

Out To Run: A Tale of Blood Velvet

There’s A Zombie Outside

Director: Michael Varrati, 75 min, USA

Shown with:

Bath Bomb

Last Night

LGBTQ ShortFest

A compilation of LGBTQ short films.

Short 1:
Some Kind of Paradise
Director: Nicholas Finegan, 21 min, USA

In a chance encounter on Grindr, a reclusive bartender at an Arkansas line-dancing bar connects with a charismatic Hollywood actor. Their unexpected chemistry pushes him to question the isolated life he’s built for himself and embrace the transformative power of intimacy and vulnerability.

Short 2:
Lesbophilia
Director: Michelle West, 15 min, USA (West Coast Premiere)

When free-as-a-bird bisexual Eliana questions giving up the “D” at her ex-boyfriend’s funeral, her girlfriend, Chase, must decide how far she is willing to go for love.

Short 3:
Catboy
Director: Cristian Sitjas, 13 min, Spain (California Premiere)

After receiving several racist and feather-phobic comments from a gay dating app, Marc receives a message from his transexual friend, Cacao, inviting him to a Ballroom. While there, he is surprised by the freedom and diversity of the environment.

Short 4:
Mélange
Director: Deshon Leek, 15 min, USA

Two estranged men reconnect in a jazz bar where they embark on a forbidden dance.

Short 5:
Back to the Closet
Director: Gerald B. Fillmore, 10 min, Spain (California Premiere)

After ten years living together, Sebastian is going to confess the truth to Lucia about his sexual orientation. Sebastian is a victim of social pressure and has been leading a double life. Now the time has come to confess to Lucia that he is heterosexual. It is time to get out of the closet, or rather, back to the closet.

Short 6:
Keep It Open
Director: Lucy Teitler, 10 min, USA

A couple is tested when a mystery man comes to town.

Short 7:
Nico
Director: Max Olson, 17 min, USA

Nico is a surreal drama that follows a recently transitioned trans man throughout one night as he struggles to be seen as himself. When his grieving elderly neighbor, Helen, mistakes him for her recently deceased husband, Nico is offered a ready-made masculine identity to slip into and a connection begins to form.

Short 8:
The Dinner
Director: Jesús Martínez “Nota”, 12 min, Spain

During a family dinner, a son is finally going to tell his parents something especially important which can no longer be left for later!

Sunflower

Director: Gabriel Carrubba, 83 min, Australia

Shown with:

The Second First Kiss

Bulletproof: A Lesbian’s Guide To Surviving The Plot

Director: Regan Latimer, 105 min, Canada

Shown with:

Once and Again

Duino

Directors: Juan Pablo Di Pace & Andrés Pepe Estrada, 107 min, USA/Argentina/Italy