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Black Cat Cinema Series returns this week with their first screening of the year -- including a Q&A with the creative team behind 2013 festival favorite G.B.F.

It's a quiet week this week, and a great time to catch American Cinematheque's retrospective of the great Chantal Akerman -- this week with 1978's The Meetings of Anna.

Happy New Year, Queer film lovers! We ring in the new year with a week of amazing Queer films with Queer women filmmakers in person.

Trailblazing German director Rosa von Praunheim (1942-2025) died this week, leaving a massive body of work and an impressive legacy as a director and activist.

Your early Christmas present this year is a special film program Happy Holidays from George Kuchar presented by Lightstruck. George was a groundbreaking and prolific gay underground filmmaker active from the 1950s until his death in 2011, and was an inspiration to John Water and countless other Queer auteurs.

If you missed it at AFIFest, this week is your chance to see TIFF darling (and now Chile's official Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film) The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo for free thanks to American Cinematheque, with director Diego Céspedes joining for a Q&A.

This week marks two years of Queer Film LA! We've been thrilled to bring you over a thousand Queer film events over the last two years, and look forward to many more. Thank you for supporting us, and all the great Queer film programming in LA.

Next weekend hosts two must-see Queer films -- pioneering 1983 Black Queer science fiction Born in Flames screens at the Hammer Museum on Sunday with director Lizzie Borden and star Adele Bertei. And the night before, directors Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein join for a very special screening of Oscar-winning doc Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt at the Academy Museum. Don't miss these special events!

Come out for Outfest NEXT this weekend, then come back to LOOK Glendale on Monday for a special presentation of Rashaad Newsome's Assembly, co-presented by Outfest and the Black Cat Cinema Series.