Houston Cinema Arts Festival returns October 1–11, 2026 with a wide range of queer films from documentaries about Houston icons like Brittney Griner to urgent narratives about the fight for queer rights on college campuses. Featuring a wide range of films from around the globe, many playing in Texas for the first time, these are some of the best queer films of the year.
Houston Cinema Arts Festival
The Making of Airport BLVD: Lessons for the Next Indie Filmmaker
Tue, Oct 6 · 5:30pm
Six Foot
Houston Cinema Arts Festival
Nina Roza
Tue, Oct 6 · 7pm
The DeLUXE Theater
Houston Cinema Arts Festival
A Land Within: A Workshop with Michael Kofler
Tue, Oct 6 · 7:30pm
Six Foot
Houston Cinema Arts Festival
The Friend's House Is Here
Wed, Oct 7 · 7pm
Asia Society
Houston Cinema Arts Festival
Confessions of the Cutting Room Floor: Personal Documentary Filmmaking
Wed, Oct 7 · 7pm
The DeLUXE Gallery
Houston Cinema Arts Festival
A. Rimbaud
Wed, Oct 7 · 7pm
The DeLUXE Theater
Houston Cinema Arts Festival
La Gradiva
Sat, Oct 10 · 7pm
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Wyatt
Houston Cinema Arts Festival
The Debut
Sat, Oct 10 · 8pm
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Brown
Houston Cinema Arts Festival
Mickey After Party with PC Music DJ Sets
Sat, Oct 10 · 11pm
Echoes
Houston Cinema Arts Festival
Spliced + Scanned: Archival Film Screening & Splicing Workshop
Sun, Oct 11 · 11am
Six Foot
Houston Cinema Arts Festival
Shorts: Now Navigations: New Experimental Films
Sun, Oct 11 · 1pm
Rice Cinema · 6100 Main St
Houston Cinema Arts Festival
Clarissa
Sun, Oct 11 · 1pm
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Wyatt
Houston Cinema Arts Festival
Who Killed the Fourth Ward?: Witnesses
Sun, Oct 11 · 4pm
Rice Cinema · 6100 Main St
Houston Cinema Arts Festival
The Blood Countess
Sun, Oct 11 · 4pm
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Wyatt
Houston Cinema Arts Festival
CineSpace Pre-Screening Reception
Sun, Oct 11 · 5pm
Rice Cinema · 6100 Main St
