QueerWest Film Fest 2025

Montana’s premier LGBTQ+ Film Festival returns June 5-7. Join us in beautiful Missoula, Montana for three days of celebrating queer stories, films, and filmmakers.
The theme for this year will be revealed soon. We are looking for films of all genres celebrating the LGBTQ+ experience.

ABOUT QWFF
Queerwest is a three-day event produced by the Roxy Theater to celebrate Montana’s diverse LGBTQ+ population. The event will take place June 5-7 to commemorate Pride Month in Missoula. It features a block of shorts from filmmakers around the world, a drag show produced by Montana Drag Wrestling as well as several feature films.

ABOUT THE ROXY
The Roxy Theater is the City of Many Shoulder’s Community Cinema. A non-profit arthouse venue, the Roxy hosts regular weekly screenings of award-winning new and classic films from around the world, simulcast live theater, special one-off screenings, community programs, and oddball events.

A unique historic venue with incredible resources, The Roxy houses three cinema screens with HD projection, 35 mm projection, state-of-the-art sound systems, two stages, a micro-cinema ‘The Annex’, and the Roxy Movie Garden – an outdoor space for films and live performance.

Questions? Email us at david@theroxytheater.org

Rules & Terms

The theme for this year will be revealed soon. While films do not need to 100% fit this theme to be considered, we are primarily looking for films of all genres celebrating the LGBTQ+ experience.

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  • Ahlaam Yasmin

    Our team is incredibly proud that the US premiere of 'The Last Goodbye' was at Queer West Film Fest 406. The team was communicative and supportive in sharing film & promotional materials. We were pleasantly surprised when the festival offered partial support for lodging accommodations for our attending cast & crew, which is imperative financial support in the budding careers of emerging independent filmmakers like ourselves. We want to thank David Mills-Low, the film operations manager, for his complimentary words about our film.

    June 2025
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  • Razid Season

    Well-organized festival that brings powerful queer cinema to Missoula's indie film lovers and queer communities. David Mills-Low was very supportive, and I thank David, along with the other staff and volunteers of this festival.

    June 2025
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  • Josef Steiff

    We are so proud to be a part of this festival. The team was great to work with -- it was a fantastic experience -- and we so admire the work they and the Roxy are doing in Montana. Queer filmmakers, check them out!

    June 2024
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