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Melbourne Queer Film Festival | |
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Genre | LGBTIQ+ Film Festival |
Location(s) | Melbourne, Australia |
Founded | 1 February 1991 |
Attendance | 23,000 (2015) |
CEO | David Martin Harris |
Website | mqff |
The Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) is an annual LGBT film festival held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in November. Founded in 1991, it is the largest queer film event in the Southern Hemisphere, in 2015 attracting around 23,000 attendees at key locations around Melbourne.
Melbourne Queer Film Festival showcases contemporary queer cinema from Australia and internationally, and includes feature films, documentaries, and short films, including world and Australian premieres. The film festival is hosted at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Cinema Nova, and Village Cinemas.