Queer Women of Color Film Festival

QWOCMAP presents the 21st annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival (QWOCFF25), June 13-15, 2025 at San Francisco's historic Presidio Theatre in the Presidio National Park!

This year's Festival Focus, "Fierce Determination," showcases 49 films across 7 screenings—from the ancestral traditions of Mauna Kea to Black Southern liberation stories—illuminating how LBTQIA+ BIPOC communities persist, thrive, and imagine liberatory futures through radical artistry and collective care.

Continuing our commitment to disability justice, all screenings include subtitles for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing viewers, audio descriptions for Blind and Low Vision audiences, and ASL interpretation.

Schedule 

Saturday, June 14, 2025

12 PM

Centerpiece Screening

THINK GLOBAL, ACT LOCAL

From women of color surfing Alameda beaches to celebrations of lesbian love in Oakland, these films champion Bay Area storytelling and journeys of connection, love, community, and self-acceptance.

Doors open at 11:30 AM.

TRT: 99 minutes

3 PM

Unshakeable Legacy Panel

NURTURING THE NEXT GEN

In celebration of QWOCMAP’s 25th Anniversary, we’re continuing our Unshakeable Legacy: Queer Women of Color Filmmaker panel series!

This compelling panel dives into the impact of mentorship, artistic development, and the unwavering dedication of queer women of color filmmakers to uplift the next generation.

Moderated by QWOCMAP’s founder and Executive/Artistic Director Madeleine Lim, the panel spotlights Rose Troche, Dawn Valdez, and Yvonne Welbon in a conversation that explores how to protect and expand access to filmmaking for our queer & trans people of color communities.

Running Time: 60 minutes

Doors open at 2:30 PM.

5 PM

Featured Screening

STANDING ABOVE THE CLOUDS

Through the stories of Indigenous mothers and daughters who have sustained the largest political movement in modern Hawaiian history, this film explores intergenerational healing and the social and emotional labor of retaining ancient ceremonies in a rapidly modernizing world.

TRT: 1:22:00 minutes

Doors open at 4:30 PM

7 PM

Centerpiece Screening

QUEER MISCHIEF

From San Francisco lesbian bars of the 1950s to best friends on a vengeful adventure, these films reveal how queer community, care, and healing leads to fierce resistance and determination to survive and thrive as liberated people.

TRT: 91 minutes

Doors open at 6:30 PM. 

Tickets: 

Our Queer Women of Color Film Festival is always absolutely FREE of charge. 

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