Korea Queer Film Festival (한국퀴어영화제)

Korea Queer Film Festival

한국퀴어영화제

Also known as: KQFF
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Korea Queer Film Festival began in 2001 as a screening strand of the Queer Culture Festival's Rainbow 2001, then ran as the Rainbow Film Festival and, from 2007 to 2013, as the Seoul LGBT Film Festival before taking its present name. It is hosted by the Seoul Queer Culture Festival Organizing Committee and programmed by its own Executive Committee, which also selects the international entries.

The programme pairs Korean and international features and shorts, including documentary, animation and experimental work, with Guest Visit conversations with filmmakers and Q-Talk panel discussions. The Executive Committee gives the KQFF Choice prize for the queer film of the year and an Honorable Mention. The 2026 edition runs 26–28 June 2026 at a cinema in Nowon district, Seoul.

Country

South Korea

Focus

LGBTQIA+

Categories

Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Feature, Short

Awards and prizes

KQFF Choice: Our Queer Films of the Year, selected by the Korea Queer Film Festival Executive Committee. The winning film receives a prize and is prioritised for recommendation to other Korean and international film festivals. Honorable Mention by the Executive Committee: Our Noteworthy Queer Films. The winning film also receives a prize.

Festival rules

International films are submitted through FilmFreeway (https://filmfreeway.com/KoreaQueerFilmFestival). Entries must suit an LGBTQIA+ film festival and offer an insight into, or a perspective on, LGBTQIA+ lives. Terms of the 2026 call: films produced outside South Korea after 1 January 2025, completed and ready for screening, with no later edits; no premiere restriction, and films already on TV, DVD or streaming platforms may enter; shorts are up to 40 minutes and features are longer. Entry fee USD 4 for shorts and USD 10 for features, with fee-waiver codes for entrants from countries on the OECD DAC list of ODA recipients. Selected films are delivered as .mov or .mp4 with an English subtitle file (.srt, .smi or .vtt). Entries that were submitted before are not considered.

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