Queer Screen’s 29th Mardi Gras Film Festival invites audiences on a mission to the Queer Frontier, to meet emerging and established filmmakers and explore new stories, styles and genres – online, in the cinema, or both.

The festival will include screenings at Event Cinemas in George Street and special ‘one night only’ sessions at the Hayden Orpheum, Cremorne and Event Cinemas in Parramatta and Hurstville before touring to the Blue Mountains and Canberra in March.

Further, more than half of the festival’s program is available to stream, on-demand. The line-up of 119 films includes 32 narrative features, 15 documentaries, four episodics, a retrospective and nine programs of shorts – from 37 different countries. This year’s program features two special strands, Focus on First Nations and Rebels With a Cause, honouring stories of queer strength and resilience.