If You Love Queer Cinema, These Screenings Belong on your Pride Month Plans
From international showcases to artist-run screenings, Pride Month 2026 offers a wealth of queer stories on the big screen.
Words Randolf Maala-Resueño
Art by Frances Angeles
June 11, 2026
From international festival favorites to intimate independent screenings, Pride Month 2026 turns cinemas and creative spaces into sites of celebration, remembrance, and resistance through stories that place queer lives at the center.
For many, Pride Month unfolds beyond parades and rainbow flags. This June, cinema becomes another gathering space—one where queer stories, identities, and histories take the spotlight.
QCinema Pride Film Festival
June 24 to 26 | Gateway Cineplex, Cubao
QCinema returns with its annual Pride Film Festival, bringing together seven acclaimed films from around the world.
The three-day showcase highlights diverse narratives on gender, identity, love, and belonging, reaffirming cinema’s ability to connect queer experiences across borders.
Now a staple of Pride Month programming, the festival continues to offer Filipino audiences access to contemporary LGBTQIA+ cinema that is both entertaining and politically resonant. See the full line-up here.
FDCP’s Pelikulaya
Throughout June | Nationwide
The Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) once again mounted Pelikulaya, its flagship celebration of LGBTQIA+ cinema.
A fixture in the local cultural calendar, the festival continues to champion stories that broaden representation and create meaningful conversations around queer lives and histories.
This year's screenings will travel to Manila, Iloilo, Negros, and Davao, extending Pride celebrations beyond the capital and creating spaces for dialogue through film. Catch the complete lineup here.
‘Dreamboi’ heads to the 50th Frameline Film Festival
June 17–27 | San Francisco, California
Filipino filmmaker Rodina Singh marks a milestone as her 2025 feature ‘Dreamboi’ joins the lineup of the 50th Frameline Film Festival, the oldest running and one of the most influential LGBTQIA+ film festivals in the world.
Starring EJ Jallorina and Tony Labrusca, the film's international screening signals another breakthrough for contemporary Filipino queer cinema and underscores the growing global presence of homegrown storytellers.
Catch the full details here.
Gagging the Southeast Asian children with ‘10s Across the Borders’
June 17 | SM Cinemas
From acclaimed festival screenings, 10s Across the Borders is finally sashaying onto Philippine screens.
Beginning June 17, the groundbreaking documentary will have its theatrical release exclusively in SM Cinemas, bringing the vibrant world of Southeast Asia's underground ballroom scene to wider audiences this Pride Month.
Directed by Sze-Wei Chan, the hybrid dance film and observational documentary follows ballroom pioneers Sun, Teddy, and Xyza as they cultivate chosen families and safe spaces across Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
Inspired by the Black and Latinx ballroom culture of New York, the film shines a spotlight on communities that continue to thrive in the face of homophobia, transphobia, colorism, and HIV stigma.
All The Things I Leave You (Patawid) makes the leap to the big screen
Starting June 17 | Exclusive in SM Cinemas
Following its acclaimed festival run, the 2025 BL series All The Things I Leave You (Patawid) returns in a special theatrical presentation at SM Cinemas.
All six episodes will be screened back-to-back, allowing audiences to experience the story of Jorge and Kiko—a pair from contrasting social backgrounds whose lives intertwine through a decades-spanning tale of love—in one sitting.
Directed by Jade Castro, the filmmaker behind Zombadings, the Ilocano-language series previously premiered at NewFest, New York's LGBTQ+ Film Festival.
Its nationwide cinema release marks another milestone for Filipino BL and queer storytelling, bringing a distinctly regional and deeply romantic narrative to a wider audience.
Moving Eyelands presents “Another And All The Others”
June 24 | Chapterhouse Creative Hub
For audiences looking beyond mainstream cinemas, Moving Eyelands offers an intimate screening of Another And All The Others at Chapterhouse Creative Hub.
The event reflects the vitality of artist-led spaces, where experimental moving-image works and alternative narratives continue to thrive.
Part screening and part gathering, the evening highlights the importance of independent creative communities in sustaining conversations around identity, memory, and queer representation. For the full screening lineup, check their Instagram and send them a DM for seat reservations.
Support queer-led screenings
More than seasonal celebrations, these programs remind us that queer cinema has always been about visibility and remembrance.
Whether shown in multiplexes, festivals, or independent spaces, these films become opportunities to gather, reflect, and celebrate the many ways LGBTQIA+ communities continue to tell their stories.
And now more than ever, filmmaking remains a vital space for queer joy and resistance.
