2016 Festival Schedule
The 28th Annual Tampa Bay International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival held from September 30th to October 8th, 2016.
Olivier Ducastel et Jacques Martineau, 2016, France, 97 mins. Sponsored by: Paul Sponseller, CFP, Raymond James An orgiastic opening scene lures the viewer into an erotic hypnotic state. Eighteen minutes…
Tor Iben, 2015, Germany, 79 mins. In this sweet coming out story a young Turkish man living in Berlin is outed by his spiteful sister and subsequently kicked out to…
Alden Peters, 2015, USA, 72 mins. Queer Youth Celebration! - Free Admission Filmmaker Alden Peters is coming out of the closet to his friends and family...on camera. Their filmed reactions…
Tim Kirkman, 2016, USA, 90 min Sponsored by TransAmerica After Alex and Dean's great love slipped away in a New York studio apartment fifteen years ago, they never spoke again.…
Carlo Lavagna, 2015, Italy, 84 mins. Coming of age almost always involves a treacherous journey into grasping how those we have depended on our entire lives have violated and failed…
Adam Garnet Jones, 2016, Canada, 96 mins. Filmmaker Adam Garnet Jones says that, "Two-Spirited" is a category that is intended to capture a spectrum of Queer Indigenous people, and one…
Ester Gould & Reijer Zwaan, 2016, Netherlands/Belgium, 85 min When it comes to Madonna, the male dancers who vogued and let their bodies move to the music (move to the…
Catherine Corsini, 2015, France, 105 min Sponsored by JPMorgan Chase & Co. “You’ve changed. More Parisian, maybe.” So says Antoine after Delphine returns for the summer to help her mother…
Rob Williams, 2016, USA, 75 min Sponsored by Hyde Park Dental Prolific storyteller Rob Williams' latest festival hit returns to Tampa after the special sneak preview this past May. SHARED…
Amy Geller & Allie Humenuk, 2016, USA/Italy, 74 min. The Guys Next Door is an intimate portrait of a real “Modern Family:” Meet Erik and Sandro, a gay married…
Julio Hernández Cordón, 2015, Mexico/Germany, 100 min Middle-class skateboarder Miguel is having a torrid love affair with Johnny, the son of the family's maid. Johnny is bisexual and also has…
Shaleece Haas, 2016, USA, 72 min – DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT When you’re coming out as a trans boy, it can feel like opening a door to nowhere. Despite a family that…
Nathan Adloff, 2016, USA, 90 min. Sponsored by Tampa Hillsborough Film & Digital Media Commission Sometimes a film doesn’t have to bang a loud drum. Sometimes it is enough to…
Deb Shoval, 2016, USA, 85 min Sponsored by Bright House Networks In rural poor Northeastern Pennsylvania a young lesbian has limited options. Falling for a capricious, straight, young mother whose…
Nick Corporon, 2016, USA, 98 min Sponsored by Watermark Magazine Not your typical road trip movie, in this dramatic journey a man who is broken by regret hires a young…
Stephen Dunn, 2015, Canada, 90 min. Fantasy sequences, a talking hamster, and sometimes violent imagery sprinkle the film debut from director Stephen Dunn. Closet Monster follows Oscar from boyhood and…
Clay Liford, 2016, USA, 100 min. The Bronte sisters wrote erotic fantasy fiction! At least that’s what Neil tells his high school peers when they confiscate his own fan fic.…
Maura Anderson, 2016, USA, 100 min. Sponsored by Creative Loafing Heartland is wonderfully engaging story combined with the star power to make it a TIGLFF favorite. Lauren (Velinda Godfrey) is…
Händl Klaus, 2016, Austria, 114 min. In German with English subtitles.– DRAMATIC CENTERPIECE Sponsored by The Tampa Club In this Austrian domestic drama, winsome tomcat Moses lives a perfect little…
Andrea Meyerson, 2015, USA, 96 mins. Sponsored by: ProSuzy Provincetown! Women’s Week! It didn’t just happen. It was a planned, entrepreneurial strategy by a group of motivated, brilliant women innkeepers…
He is a HOOT!Leslie Jordan will be live at the Tampa Theatre as part of our 27th film festival. Join us for a great night celebrating CommUNITY and diversity on…
Carly Usdin, 2016, USA, 78 min A macabre comedy about hot new lesbian love and long term commitment that makes fun of some of the sad but true dysfunction involved…
André Téchiné, 2016, France, 116 min Famed director Andre Techine's (WILD REEDS) latest coming-of-age masterpiece is an intimate portrayal of the 17 year old psyche. Thomas lives on the family…
Ana María Hermida, 2013, Colombia, 88 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. Sponsored by St. Petersburg/Clearwater Film Commission Lucia and Mariana have a common bond – Andres, Lucia’s brother and…
Ana María Hermida, 2013, Colombia, 88 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. Sponsored by St. Petersburg/Clearwater Film Commission Lucia and Mariana have a common bond – Andres, Lucia’s brother and…
Kerem Sanga, 2016, USA, 91 min Sponsored by Equality Florida Do you remember her? Is someone remembering you as their first love? Surely, it wasn’t as hard as we remember. …
Aaron Brookner, 2016, UK/USA, 97 min Sponsored by The UPS Store — Downtown St. Petersburg Howard Brookner was just camera-toting “Uncle Howard” to his nephew Aaron Brookner, until Aaron rediscovered…
Golden Golden Erica Cho, 2016, USA, 15 min Vanilla Juan Beiro, 2015, Spain, 10 min 1985 Yen Tan, 2016, USA, 9 min Balcony Toby Fell-Holden, 2015, UK, 17 min Thanks…
Sponsored by Punky’s Bar & Grill and Gay St. Pete House More Than God Kev Cahill, 2016, Ireland, 9 min MeTube 2: August Sings Carmina Burana Daniel Moshel, 2016, Austria,…
Doug Langway, 2016, USA, 117 mins.Sponsored by: Tampa Bay Bears Bears will be bears in this sweet and funny slice of life in the woods. This being the third and…
Ingrid Jungermann, 2016, USA, 93 minsMetaphor, twisted queer humor, a morbid curiosity, or all of these? Commitment phobic Morgan and her ex-girlfriend Jean, locally famous true crime podcasters, suspect that…