Cinema and Afro-queer arts · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Dates
October 15 – November 8, 2026 (18th edition, EN COURSES) — theme "Memoirs vivantes"; screenings in theatre at Théâtre Plaza (rue Saint-Hubert, Montreal), online showcase from October 26 to November 8
Venue
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genres
Cinema and Afro-queer arts
The festival
A home where we recognize ourselves: born in 2009, the Montreal LGBTQ+ Afro Film and Arts Festival, for its 18th edition, under the theme "Memoirs vivantes", features more than 40 films in seven thematic blocks — chosen families, indigenous and bispiritual resilience, black and queer stories, Afro-queer communities of the West Indies and Guyana.
Opening on October 15 at the Plaza Theatre with an excerpt from Terry Blade's My Gender Is Black, in the Canadian premiere; world premieres (at midnight children die, PLENUM); the collective exhibition Le/The Sanctum at the Maison de la culture de Côte-des-Neiges as early as October 22nd; and a closing "Celebrating Our Voices" on October 25th, between drag, dance, humour and poetry, before a great drag evening at the DD's Club.
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