For 10 years now Queer North has created a space for queer people and their allies from across identities, ages, and the great region of Northern Ontario to come together in community to engage in world class cinema, discussions, and social events.
We’re a Social-Justice-focused festival exhibiting bold, diverse queer stories to Northern audiences, ensuring accessibility, and creating meaningful cultural experiences that resonate far beyond the screen.
Canadian Screen Award Qualifying
4 Days
25+ Films
Film Premieres, Artist talks, After-Parties and More
10th Anniversary
Screenings take place at Sudbury Indie Cinema- 162 Mackenzie St. Laneway/side entrance.
Free parking and bike racks!
by Siobhan McCarthy
2025 | USA | Comedy | 81 min
Before graduation, Ethan and Alex pose as trans women in a last ditch effort to quell gay rumors. It’s all a joke until Ethan realizes: she really is trans. The two must reckon with their changing friendship, coming out, and coming-of-age.
4K Restoration
by Ada Gay Griffin, Michelle Parkerson
1995 | USA | Documentary | 80 min.
Tenderly tracing the life of poet Audre Lorde, the film cracks open life’s poetry guided by Lorde’s sincere belief more and better is possible if we envision it enough to will it into existence.
by Diego Céspedes
2025 | Chile | Drama | 104 min | Spanish
Set in a remote Chilean mining town in 1982, Diego Céspedes’ dazzling debut feature follows young Lidia, who grows up within a vibrant queer household led by drag performers and trans women. When a mysterious illness—rumored to spread through the gaze between men—sows fear and hysteria, the community becomes the target of suspicion and violence. Through Lidia’s eyes, Céspedes crafts a haunting allegory of love, myth, and prejudice that reimagines the early AIDS era as a queer western with poetic intimacy and desert-dry surrealism. Winner of the Un Certain Regard Award at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo recalls the emotional vibrancy of Almodóvar and continues Chile’s proud legacy of queer cinema—marking Céspedes as one of the most exciting new voices in world cinema.
by Neil Ely & Lloyd Eyre-Morgan
2025 | UK | Drama | 82 min.
Two lads – Benji and Jake – meet at an airport gate and begin monthly incognito trips to Amsterdam together. Over time the need to keep their intimacy a secret causes strain for the out Benji, and their trysts become increasingly toxic.
A Celebration of Northern Ontario’s Queer Filmmakers and Spaces
There aren’t many dedicated queer places in Northern Ontario. We’re often left to create them on our own. This programme is seeking stories set, or about spaces, that queer people have created, or stumbled into; where they can breathe a little easier. What feelings do you associate with Queer spaces? What shape do these spaces take? What relationships or conflicts foster here?
Tuesday, April 21
Unfortunately, our run of MILE END KICKS has been postponed to open Thursday, April 30 at 4:15 PM. Other April screenings have been replaced, including:
Thank you for your understanding!!