Upcoming Screenings & Events

From the Academy Award®-winning filmmakers behind Everything Everywhere All at Once and Navalny; a father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is a hand-made, eye-opening documentary about the most powerful technology humanity has ever created… and what’s at stake if we get it wrong.

Join the Artist Foundry for a workshop with Nicole Docta. With fewer and fewer distribution options for independently made films, how can we make sure our films are available for audiences?

Captain Edelson (Paul Sorvino) tasks young rookie Steve Burns (Pacino) with infiltrating the S&M subculture to try and lure the killer out of the shadows – but as he immerses himself deeper and deeper into the underworld, Steve risks losing his own identity in the process.

Are you excited to get a sneak peek into Utah’s longest running queer film festival? Well, you’re in luck! Come hang out with your fave queer film nerds and find out how they put UQFF 2026 together.

The Artist Foundry presents a curated evening of local short films that showcase the breadth of creativity and culture by Latine filmmakers.

Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy drama film directed by Herbert Ross about six women in a small Southern town sharing gossip, solving problems at the local beauty parlor, and anchoring each other through life’s ups and downs. The screenplay by gay writer, Robert Harling, is based on his 1987 play of the same name and the life of his sister, Susan Harling Robinson, who died in 1985 of complications from type 1 diabetes.

Join us on the first Thursday of each month to mix and mingle in the Artist Commons! This is an open gathering for filmmakers to gather in our Artist Commons and connect with Artist Foundry members as well as other artists to build community around film.

Debunks myths that females are “inferior” and being queer is “unnatural”. Produced and narrated by Elliott Page, the film explores the 1500+ animal species who engage in same-sex sexual behavior and parenting, change sex, form matriarchies, and more. Present as part of the 2026 Utah Queer Film Festival.

 

 

Inspired by the landmark documentary Paris Is Burning, This Is Ballroom traces Rio de Janeiro’s ballroom scene back to its origins in the 1960s, when non-white drag performers created their own competitions in response to racial exclusion.

You’re invited to the second annual Awards Ceremony to recognize the best in queer programming at UQFF 2026! We’re recognizing audience faves and selections from our distinguished Awards Jury.

Joaquín José Martínez, the first Spaniard ever exonerated from U.S. death row, was once a supporter of capital punishment until, at 24, he was convicted of a double murder in Florida. He spent more than five years behind bars, three on death row. Two decades after he was exonerated, Joaquín transforms his personal trauma into public advocacy.

At her surprise birthday party, an emotionally vulnerable woman experiences disturbing ‘glitches’ that threaten to turn the best night of her life into a never-ending nightmare.

Join the Artist Foundry for a workshop with Marcie Gibboney Your script is amazing! Everyone who reads it is excited for you, so now it is time to take it to the next step. However, whether it is your first project or your tenth, you must be able to get your story on the screen. How do you ensure this will happen, whether your budget is $200 or $2 million?

In May 2021, a U.K. Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighborhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbors.

Join us on the first Thursday of each month to mix and mingle in the Artist Commons! This is an open gathering for filmmakers to gather in our Artist Commons and connect with Artist Foundry members as well as other artists to build community around film.

Grand Jury Prize at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, challenges the conventions of a nature documentary by favoring confrontation over moralism, inviting us to reconsider our assumptions about wildlife as spectacle.

In the Best Interests of Children is a 1977 feature-length documentary “about who lesbian mothers and their children really are.” Made by the feminist filmmakers’ collective Iris Films to help lesbian mothers facing custody battles.

Lesbian Custody explores the legacy of In the Best Interests of the Children. Nearly 50 years later, filmmaker Frances Reid, one of the film’s original creators, reconnects with Julie Stevens, the daughter of Reid’s late partner and co-director Liz Stevens.