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Trinity Pride Fort Worth is bringing back the Q Cinema<\/a> film festival after a four-year absence, with the 2026 edition taking place at Amphibian Stage, November 13-15.<\/p>\n

According to a release, the festival will be showcased by three feature films, which have been screened at other notable film festivals such as Cannes Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a remarkable moment in Trinity Pride\u2019s history,” said Roger Calderon, president of Trinity Pride Fort Worth, in a statement. “We have the great privilege of stewarding a festival that has given Fort Worth\u2019s LGBTQ+ community a place to see our lives and stories reflected on screen for nearly three decades. Bringing Q Cinema back allows us to honor what came before while creating something that can grow with Fort Worth\u2019s LGBTQ+ community for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Originally launched in 1996 as a discussion group by writer Todd Camp and then into a full festival format in 1999 by Camp and Shawn Moore, Q Cinema delivered year-round programming and an annual festival produced across Fort Worth for over two decades. <\/p>\n

The festival will transform Amphibian Stage’s 100-seat house, traditionally built for live theater, into a digital cinema for the three-day event.<\/p>\n

In addition to the three headlining films, Q Cinema will host a lineup of documentary films, short films, retrospective showcases, and regional Texas films.<\/p>\n

There will also be filmmaker conversations, panel discussions, and community gatherings.<\/p>\n

The three headlining films include:<\/p>\n

Bookends (Friday, November 13 at 7 pm) – When Nate (Noam Ash) is forced to leave his fabulous city life behind and move in with his grandparents after a bad breakup with his boyfriend, he is determined to escape the confines of retirement community life and his meddlesome grandparents\u2019 relentless attempts to \u2018improve\u2019 him. But when his Holocaust-surviving grandfather, Saul (F. Murray Abraham), shows signs of cognitive decline and his grandmother, Miriam (Caroline Aaron), refuses to acknowledge her husband\u2019s early dementia, Nate finds himself torn between his desire to flee, family responsibilities, and an unexpected romance with his grandparents\u2019 handsome doctor (Charlie Barnett). Directed by Mike Doyle and written by Noam Ash.Clarissa (Saturday, November 14 at 7 pm) – Starring Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo and David Oyelowo, and directed by Arie and Chuko Esiri, Clarissa reimagines Virginia Woolf\u2019s Mrs. Dalloway in contemporary Lagos, Nigeria. As Clarissa prepares to host a high-society gathering, old friends and lovers resurface, stirring memories of passionate loves, hidden desires and roads not taken. The film transforms Woolf\u2019s classic into a lush, bittersweet portrait of memory, longing and the lives we might have lived.Jaripeo (Sunday, November 15 at 7:00 pm) – Directed by Efra\u00edn Mojica and Rebecca Zweig, Jaripeo is a feature hybrid documentary that journeys to Michoac\u00e1n\u2019s hypermasculine rodeos. What starts as a celebration of tradition, descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing. A reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.<\/p>\n

Festival-goers can purchase all-access passes starting October 22, the same day that the complete festival schedule and film selections will be announced.<\/p>\n

Individual tickets for all screenings will be available for purchase beginning November 2 at trinitypridefw.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trinity Pride Fort Worth is bringing back the Q Cinema film festival after a four-year absence, with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2007,116,118,117,368],"class_list":["post-470831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fairs-festivals","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-state-fair-of-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}