Perfect Peach Summers is among the films that will be screened at this year’s event. Credit: Courtesy of Pride San Antonio

The 9th Annual San Antonio QFest LGBT International Film Festival strives to bring awareness to the residents of the Alamo City about LGBTQ issues through queer cinema “created for, by, or about the LGBTQ community.”

The three-day film festival is presented by Pride San Antonio, which was founded in 2004 by local community activists and organizers to celebrate LGBTQ Pride and create an all-inclusive organization that could meet the needs of the queer community.

Official selections included in this year’s festival include Dawn, Her Dad & the Tractor (dir. Shelley Thompson), a story about a young trans woman who attempts to repair her relationship with her dad after the death of her mother; and Ekai (dir. Arantza Ibarra), a short documentary about a transgender boy named Ekai Lersundi, who took his own life in 2018 after struggling with the bureaucracy of hormone replacement therapy.

$20-$40, various times Friday, Oct. 7-Sunday, Oct. 9, The Public Theater of San Antonio, 800 W. Ashby Place, pridesanantonio.org.

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This article appears in Oct 5-18, 2022.