Toronto Queer Film Festival

Since 2016, the Toronto Queer Film Festival has showcased the film and video art of queer and trans creators. We celebrate vigour, resistance, and defiance over nationalism and assimilation. We elevate Indigiqueer/Trans/2 Spirit filmmakers and filmmakers of colour where others erase or tokenize.

For TQFF 2025, we are soliciting film, video, and animation on the theme of Collective Resistance. We welcome all genres and on-screen media full of visions, reflections, community, and imaginations.

Collective Resistance emulates the strength of queer and trans communities that challenge and resist all forms of oppression, discrimination, dehumanization, and human rights violations. Today more than ever, we see the need for solidarity and action to halt the erasure of basic rights, stop colonization and imperialism (along with the genocides and eugenics they foster), and advocate for a sustainable future that values life over profit and property. We want to see films that focus on community, activism in different forms, environmental justice, freedom of expression and so much more. We exist therefore we resist. Collective Resistance aims to empower and unite our communities through the interconnectedness of the need for a more inclusive and balanced society.

This is an artist-run festival. At TQFF, we commit to the ethical treatment of artists in two concrete ways: we do not charge submission fees, and we pay all artists who have their films selected screening fees according to IMAA & CARFAC standard rates.

You can use the code TQFF2025 to submit.

TQFF is generously funded by the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Ontario, Government of Canada and Building Communities through Arts & Heritage.

Submit your film today!