Virginia Film Festival

Changing the Game

High school athlete Mack Beggs made national headlines in 2017 when he became the Texas girls…

Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (How I Felt When I Saw That Girl)

Sweety Chaudhary, a young Punjabi woman, is constantly badgered by her overbearing family about her love…

Gay Chorus Deep South

In response to a wave of discriminatory anti-LGBTQ laws and the divisive 2016 presidential election, the San…

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

In eighteenth century France, the elusive Héloïse has rejected her mother’s previous attempts to commission a…

Queen of the Capital

Bureaucrat by day, drag queen crusader by night, Muffy Blake Stephyns has high aspirations. Muffy and…

Queer Love on Screen

The VAFF will present an episode from season three of Netflix’s Dear White People that follows a…

Rafiki

Tomboy and daughter of local politician, Kena, has always been “one of the guys.” Defying Kenya’s…

Short Films: Looking at Ourselves, Looking at Others

The Special Athlete 2019. USA. 4 min. Director: Christina Anton, Graham Barbour Featuring: Chris Raupp, Lloyd…

To the Stars

In a small town in 1960s Oklahoma, reclusive teen Iris endures the booze-induced antics of her…

Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts

Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts captures the momentous rise of RuPaul’s Drag Race breakout queen Trixie Mattel. As the charming drag persona…

You Don’t Nomi

The release of Showgirls in 1995, Paul Verhoeven’s salacious NC-17 look at Vegas dancers, was met with extreme…