OUR HISTORY

The Festival first screened in 1991 and has continued every year since. It is the oldest queer film festival in Australia and one of the oldest queer film festivals in the world. It is the largest queer film festival in the Southern Hemisphere as well as being the second largest film festival in Victoria. Over the past 20 years it is estimated that over 200,000 people have attended the Festival and other MQFF events.

Originally called the Melbourne International Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival, we became the Melbourne Queer Film & Video Festival in 1993, and settled on Melbourne Queer Film Festival in 2003.

Since 1992 the Festival has screened within the boundaries of the City of Melbourne, originally at the State Film Theatre at Treasury Place and the Capitol Theatre in Swanston Street.

For the past five years it has screened in the heart of Melbourne at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) at Federation Square, the first film festival to use the screening facility.

Further information:

Program Archive

Poster Archive