Outfest Next
Ongoing Series
Outfest begins its return, renewed and ready. After a season of rebuilding and refocusing, we're thrilled to present OutfestNEXT — four powerful days of cinema celebrating the resilience, joy, and artistry of LGBTQ+ storytelling.
Experience emotionally impactful contemporary, independent queer films including award-winning features and shorts, engaging conversations, and anniversary screenings of beloved classics from our archives. Each film has been carefully chosen to inspire, affirm, and unite our community during these crucial times.

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UPCOMING SCREENINGS
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All That We Love
Los Angeles LGBT Center
Filmmakers in Attendance
Following the death of her family dog, Emma finds herself at a crossroads where grief and release play together: a midlife awakening is now in full throttle, and those closest to Emma feel the impact, including her best friend Stan and her rambunctious daughter Maggie. To make matters more complicated and ripe for comedic mishaps, Emma’s estranged ex-husband Andy returns to the city from Singapore down on his professional luck and aiming to rekindle things with his lost love.

Dust Bunny
Los Angeles LGBT Center
Filmmakers in Attendance
An eight-year-old girl asks her scheming neighbor for help in killing the monster under her bed that she thinks ate her family. 

The Broken Hearts Club
25th Anniversary Screening
Los Angeles LGBT Center
A close-knit group of gay friends share the emotional roller coster of life, relationships, the death of friends, new beginnings, jealousy, fatherhood and professional success. At various stages of life’s disarray, these young men share humorous and tragic relationships and always have each other to rely on.

Rock Out
Los Angeles LGBT Center
In electric, personal, and historical ways, this riveting documentary explores whether there is, or ever was, a home for Queer in the hyper-masculine, black painted worlds of heavy metal, punk and rock & roll. Excavating the often-veiled queer lives of some of the greatest culture-defining disruptors and masterminds of music in the 1960s and 70s, Rock Out demands to know what unique value ‘gay’ brought to creating and revolutionising rock, punk, and metal – from the perspective of managers, producers, artists and fans – and why those contributions have been left buried for so long.

At the Place of Ghosts
Sk+te'kmujue'katik
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Haunted by the past, siblings Mise’l and Antle are destined to reunite and join forces against a dark spirit that emerges from their shared childhood. Once inseparable, their fractured relationship set by years of silence and a violent episode rooted in homophobia, is tested as they must return to Sk+te’kmujue’kati (the Place of Ghosts) a forest steeped in ancestral memory where time bends. What initiates from trauma soon transforms into an odyssey of healing, as Mise’l and Antle confront their caretaker’s cruelty, the weight of family secrets, and their own deepest fears. Visually stunning and emotionally raw, this extraordinary tale explores how love, even when repressed, can become the fiercest weapon against hate.

Looking Back, Facing Forward
Outfest Short Selects
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
As Outfest returns from a long hiatus, we want to honor our community of filmmakers by showcasing a selection of the films that have uplifted Outfest and its audiences over the course of its long history in the Los Angeles LGBTQIA+ community. 

Niñxs
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
At the foot of Tepozteco, a sacred hill that governs the winds and fertility, lies the small town of Tepoztlán. Against this backdrop, fifteen-year-old Karla’s body and mind are undergoing a revolution. 

Drive Back Home
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
A conservative plumber from a small east coast village who travels to Toronto in order to get his brother out of jail after he is arrested for having sex with another man in a public park. At the insistence of their strong willed mother, the two brothers must drive the 1000 mile trip back home to New Brunswick, together - discovering each other and themselves along the way.

Love Letters
Des preuves d'amour
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Céline is expecting her firstborn. But she’s not the one who’s pregnant. In three months, her wife Nadia will give birth to their daughter. Under the gaze of her friends, her mother, and the law, Céline looks for her place and sense of legitimacy. 

Pride Is a (Laugh) Riot
Short Film Program
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Filmmakers in Attendance
There’s a lot you could say about our community: some of it’s good, some of it’s even better. But one thing no one has ever said is, “queer people are not funny.” (Well, no one worth listening to, anyway.) These shorts showcase the queer experience in all its joyful hilarity. 

I Want You So Bad
Short Film Program
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Filmmakers in Attendance
We talk a lot in our community about the beauty of queer love—but in this shorts program we want to focus on that other, particular queer phenomenon: the sensuous ache for someone—or something—and the confusing mix of feelings that come when we get what we want.

We Are Pat
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Filmmakers in Attendance
Pat, the evasive, androgynous character made famous on Saturday Night Live by Julia Sweeney, was an inescapable figure in 1990s pop culture. As a child, filmmaker Ro Haber became obsessed with Pat—a character whose popularity stemmed from making others uncomfortable by defying gender norms. Decades later, and now an out trans filmmaker, Haber still grapples with Pat’s legacy. Thirty-five years after It’s Pat first aired, Haber assembles a group of queer and trans comedians, writers, and even Sweeney herself to revisit the character. Through conversation and critique, they aim not to erase Pat but to reframe them, transforming a symbol of ridicule into one of reflection and empowerment. 

CAMP
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Filmmakers in Attendance
A story of impossible redemption, feminine power, and duels that repeat themselves like cursed cycles. 

Perro Perro
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Some men are literal dogs! And Juan happens to find one in the wilderness while on vacation. He takes him in, bathes him, feeds him, and shows him much-needed affection. However, his girlfriend warns against becoming too attached…

Communing with the Past
Short Film Program
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Filmmakers in Attendance
There are few things that will make a queer person feel less alone than surrounding yourself with queer (or even straight) people of other generations—it can and must be a source of solidarity and strength to learn how to move through an often brutal world, or even how to party. 

Drunken Noodles
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Adnan, a young art student, arrives in New York to spend the summer in an apartment. He interns at a gallery that exhibits the work of an older, unconventional artist he once crossed paths with. As moments from his past and present intertwine, a series of encounters, both artistic and erotic, open gaps in his everyday reality. 

Dreams in Nightmares
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
After an abrupt layoff, Z embarks on a trip across the Midwestern United States in search of a friend who has seemingly disappeared off the grid. Traveling with her two closest friends, these three queer black femmes find their priorities tested as shapeshifting threats in each city expose (inter)personal and ideological fractures. 

State of Firsts
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
A documentary that follows Sarah McBride’s groundbreaking first year in Congress as the first openly transgender person elected to the U.S. legislature, State of Firsts captures her battle against relentless political attacks. As MAGA Republicans ban her from restrooms and publicly misgender her, McBride confronts threats and discrimination with resilience. Focused on meaningful policy work over partisan conflict, she draws inspiration from historical figures who overcame adversity, offering a powerful look at perseverance in the face of systemic opposition.

Christy
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Christy Martin never imagined life beyond her small-town roots in West Virginia—until she discovered a knack for punching people. Fueled by grit, raw determination, and an unshakable desire to win, she charges into the world of boxing under the guidance of her trainer and manager-turned-husband, Jim. But while Christy flaunts a fiery persona in the ring, her toughest battles unfold outside it—confronting family, identity, and a relationship that just might become life-or-death.

The Dark Side of the Rainbow
Short Film Program
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Filmmakers in Attendance
If there’s one thing queer people understand, it’s how to play with form to make an object more interesting. From surreal horror to dystopian animation to blaxploitation, these filmmakers reinterpret the genres they’re working in to create work that is altogether captivating...

Lakeview
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
A queer ensemble comedy set over a weekend at the lake house of a group of lifelong friends 

Touch Me
LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world. 
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