Q! Film Festival

Q! Film Festival
LocationJakarta, Indonesia
Founded2002
Disestablished2017
DirectorsJohn Badalu
LanguageInternational
WebsiteOfficial website (Archived)

The Q! Film Festival, held annually in the city of Jakarta in Indonesia, was Asia's largest LGBT film festival, in terms of the number of films shown.[1] It was established in 2002, and continued until 2017. In 2003, it overtook the Jakarta International Film Festival and a number of other international ones, in the number of films shown, venues and overall length of Festival, showing 51 films in a range of venues across Jakarta. It was also the first-ever LGBT film festival to be organised in a predominantly Muslim country.[2]

On March 4, 2017, Q! Film Festival's official Twitter feed reproduced a message sent the previous day by its founder, John Badalu, stating that the Festival would no longer continue at the present time, that it had "been a long fight and struggle to keep it going year after year" and that it "might come back one day when the time is right".[3]

  1. ^ Maimunah. "Indonesia's Q! Film Festival". Inside Indonesia. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  2. ^ "About Us - WHO WE ARE". Q! Film Festival. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  3. ^ John Badalu (3 March 2017). "Q! Film Festival is taking a break. A statement from the founder". Q! Film Festival. Retrieved 7 March 2017.