Founded: 2009 | Annual
About this festival
CinemaQ is Denver Film’s annual LGBTQ+ film festival, held each spring at the Sie FilmCenter on East Colfax Avenue. Programmed as part of Denver Film’s year-round slate, the festival presents a curated weekend of features, documentaries, and shorts from queer filmmakers — domestic and international, established and emerging — alongside panels, parties, and community events that have made it one of the longest-running LGBTQ+ film festivals in the Mountain West.
The programming reaches across genres: coming-of-age dramas and romantic comedies sit alongside horror, true crime, biographical documentary, and Latin American cinema, with a recurring emphasis on first features and underseen international work. Repertory screenings are part of the mix as well, often pairing canonical queer films with new work in conversation. Q&As with filmmakers are a regular fixture, and the festival’s opening night and closing weekend events extend beyond the theater into Denver’s queer nightlife — past editions have included drag performances, late-night parties at venues along Colfax, and morning gatherings at the Sie’s Henderson-Withey Lounge.
Tickets are typically available individually or via festival passes, with a number of screenings offered on a Pay What You Can basis to broaden access. The festival is part of Denver Film’s broader programming alongside the Denver Film Festival, Women+Film, and CineLatinx, and shares the Sie FilmCenter as its home base.
Practical info Dates: Late May (three days, Friday through Sunday) Venue: Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver Presented by: Denver Film Website: denverfilm.org/programs/cinemaq