Content Warnings

We want you to make informed choices about what you watch at QWOCFF. Below you'll find content warnings for every film in the festival. If you need support during a screening, please visit the Front Desk or find a member of our Safety & Care Team (look for red lanyards). The Festival Info with a Crisis Counselor site is available at every screening.

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Hannah Mayree: Songs of Reclamation

Ebony Marie Bailey

16:25

2025

Content Warnings:

Anti-Black racism Archival images of white performers in blackface

Hannah Mayree works on a banjo neck in their workshop in northern California. They are wearing a green-blue jacket. The wooden banjo neck is in the foreground of the image and partially obstructs Hannah’s face.

Damn Y’all Fine

Kalima Young, Ti Malik Coleman

41:36

2025

Content Warnings:

Emotional distress Body dysphoria Personal safety concerns Transphobia

A close-up of two Black lesbian women kissing each other in a warm, softly lit setting.

Budget Paradise

LaTajh Simmons-Weaver

0:13:53

2024

Content Warnings:

Gentrification

A Black person sitting on the floor, leaning against a laundromat dryer. They look down with their hands in their afro.

Rainbow Girls

Nana Duffuor

15:55

2025

Content Warnings:

Gentrification Displacement Drug use Swearing

Three Rainbow Girls (Tati, Angel, and Gemini) carrying bags of stolen goods race through a flock of pigeons in San Francisco's Union Square.

Watermelon In Wintertime

Kana Azhari, Sankofa B. Soliel

4:19

2025

Content Warnings:

Flashing lights Gore Swearing

Three Black people are walking down the stairs at Sproul Hall (UC Berkeley). The person in the middle is wearing a white bandana over their face, a white knit tank top and white cut up jeans with butterfly pins on their clothes, head and on their two long French braids. The other two people to the left and right of the person in white are wearing all black with black bandanas over their faces and white keffiyehs around their neck and hip.

The Second Spring

Jalena Keane-Lee

0:10:51

2025

Content Warnings:

Body image Body dysmorphia Acupuncture needles

A Super 8 film image of Sarah, a 60 year old light skin Black woman with short hair wearing all black and reaching towards the sky in front of a black and white mural

Flores Del Corazón

Maria CD

6:11

2026

Content Warnings:

Suicidal ideation Anxiety Transphobia

Person wearing pink dress and black shirt, with a pink hair clip on top of their head. A brown box with a mirror lies in the background. The person sits on a rock in front of bushes, in a field of some green grass and brown dirt, with a few orange flowers and also some concrete visible in the background.

Leo Lets It Rain

Jasmin Prophete

0:11:26

2025

Content Warnings:

Emotional distress Panic attack Parent yelling at a child

A young Black trans man waits on an NYC subway platform with a cake box and a gift. He wears a pastel vest and dress pants. The mural behind him features flowers and reads "28th Street."

Tending To

Chinyce Cole-Henry

0:08:05

2026

Content Warnings:

Grief Mentions of global suffering

A group of 20-something-year-old friends gather in a half-circle embrace. They comfort the friend standing in the center of the circle, a short, Black, nonbinary person with short hair. Lights from the harbor behind them shine.

Breaking It All

Célia Mebroukine

0:23:13

2025

Content Warnings:

Emotional distress Sexism Flashing images Swearing Violence Mention of sexual violence

Farah is riding her bike through the streets of Paris, heading to meet her best friend to accompany her to an important appointment.

STANDING TREE

Mapa Lopez, Red Comunitaria Trans, Rodrigo Torrijos

0:05:54

2026

Content Warnings:

Anti-Black racism Colorism Emotional distress Mention of transphobia and transfeminicide

Magdalena Morales, lead singer of Morena del Chicamocha.

¡Quba!

Kim Anno

1:10:27

2024

Content Warnings:

Homophobia Transphobia

A road runs close to the Havana coastline. Colorful blue, green, and yellow cars and buildings dot the city.

Letters to Nowhere

Noor Irshad

0:03:42

2026

Content Warnings:

Emotional distress Grief

A Pakistani person with frosting and sprinkles smeared across their forehead. They wear black rimmed glasses, a surgical mask, and a white cap.

2 of Hearts

Ana Squilanti

0:15:29

2025

Content Warnings:

Alcohol use

In the middle of couples dancing, a middle-aged Black woman stands in the center with medium-dark brown skin and long braids styled over one shoulder, wearing a red, strapless gown with subtle embroidered or beaded detailing. She has a serious, contemplative expression.

Edges of the Earth

Day Park

0:06:01

2026

Content Warnings:

Partial nudity Candle wax play BDSM

The back of a human-creature’s shaved head and bare shoulders. Two braids snake down its neck. The forest in the background is shaded, but the sun illuminates the creature as it digs ten black claws onto its skin. A black spine parts its back in two like lightning through the sky.

Waste Time: A Complicated Love Story

LIVt

0:07:58

2025

Content Warnings:

Flashing images Emotional distress in a relationship

At dusk, two women stand close together in front of a softly glowing marquee sign blurred in the background. Warm golden lights create a romantic, cinematic atmosphere.

Cockroach

Liliana Padilla, Justice Maya Singleton

0:22:24

2025

Content Warnings:

Nudity Swearing Insects Sexual content

A white gay man and Black trans person with dyed green hair sit on a green couch with concerned expressions.

Pink Oz’s

Tierra "TT" Frost

0:08:54

2025

Content Warnings:

Flashing images

A young Black woman in a black bandana, sunglasses, and a layered black and white outfit stands in an art gallery, looking upward with a reserved expression. Behind her, a white young man in a sleeveless top films her with a handheld camcorder. A bright floral painting is visible on the wall.

August and Ebony

Sunyin Zhang

0:12:50

2023

Content Warnings:

Swearing

A close up of two 30-something-year-old queer Black woman couple look lovingly into each other's eyes while standing in a home.

At Home

Aubrey Pandori

0:12:39

2025

Content Warnings:

Mention of transphobia and self-harm

Griffin Jing (she/her) looking at her reflection in her bathroom mirror, blow drying her long, dark brown hair.

Enjoy the View

Ana Chen, Jude Garcia

0:06:33

2026

Content Warnings:

Mention of gender-affirming surgery

On a round, wooden table with raw and cooked hot pot ingredients such as beef, noodles, dumplings, and bok choy, friends spoon soup into each other's bowls in Oakland, California.

If only you knew

Safiyah Chiniere

0:20:28

2025

Content Warnings:

Emotional distress

A young, Jamaican American woman, looking straight ahead in her seat. She is wearing a grey hoodie.

Home Visit

Anushka Shah, Danna Kim

0:04:55

2026

Content Warnings:

Emotional distress Grief Homophobia

A concerned Indian American woman wearing a kurti and lays down on her partner’s lap.

Never Stand Down: The Quraishi Family

Elena Chang

0:16:46

2025

Content Warnings:

Fear of family rejection due to homophobia/organized religion Mention of cancer and limb loss

Zunaira Khalid (left) discusses a passage in the family Qur'an with her father, Khalid Quraishi (right).

A Litany For Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde

Ada Gay Griffin, Michelle Parkerson

1:30:01

1995

Content Warnings:

Grief Cancer Mention of state violence Racism Homophobia Archival images of violent protest Archival images of lynching

A close up of Audre Lorde delivering a speech in a conference. She wears a purple gown with a garland around her neck and a green scarf headwrap.

Between Us

Quyên Nguyen-Le

0:15:59

2025

Content Warnings:

Homophobia Displacement Emotional distress Mention of war Community exclusion Parental rejection Grief Mention of death Genocide survival Coming out

A vibrant group of parade marchers walk down a sunny, palm-lined street carrying a white banner that reads “VROC,” framed by rainbow colors. They wear flowing áo dài in bright hues—red, blue, pink, and brown—while waving rainbow and transgender pride flags that ripple in the breeze. A rainbow umbrella is held high above the center of the group, and more participants follow behind, filling the scene with color and celebration.

autism is an altar

Casey Kaneyo Hidekawa

0:03:36

2026

Content Warnings:

Grief Emotional distress State violence Incarceration Mention of ableism

Portrait of a Japanese woman superimposed against the ocean.

Flow

Tiffany Zhang

0:06:02

2026

Content Warnings:

Emotional distress

An East Asian young woman in a pale blue dress stands on the beach with the city skyline and sun behind her. She smiles as she looks around.

Yu & Me

Claudine Cho, Esther Chan

0:25:44

2026

Content Warnings:

Grief Swearing Emotional pain

Lucy Yu (she/they), a Chinese woman with short hair, hangs up a custom painting of a beagle that says "employee of the month" in her bookstore, Yu & Me Books.

Superfan No. 1

Trusha Ramesh Rahate

0:02:55

2025

Content Warnings:

Loud/crowd noise (cheering & whistling)

A seven year old, brown skinned Indian girl, Pari, or "Princess" draws a picture of her dad in her notebook with pencils and crayons.

Đồng Quể: Of the Same Womb

Sage Tran

0:56:48

2025

Content Warnings:

Grief Emotional distress War Displacement Family rejection Body dysphoria Gender & body challenges

A group of queer trans Vietnamese members all huddled up (standing and sitting) wearing a variety of traditional Vietnamese garments called "ao dai." They are looking at the camera smiling and posing in a field with redwood trees in the background.

Between Us

Quyên Nguyen-Le