Canada’s first LGBTQ+ film festival, image+nation. LGBT2SQueer Film Festival Montreal returns from November 20 to 30, 2025 with a program featuring works by major names in world queer cinema as well as new discoveries. To extend the experience online, screenings of award-winning films and exclusive content will be offered until December 7, 2025.

To open this 2025 edition, the festival will host the world premiere of Canadian director Gail Maurice’s new film, Blood Lines, which will be presented at the Théâtre Outremont on November 20, 2025. Filmed in a Métis village and in the Michif language (spoken by less than 1,200 people), Maurice’s evocative film unveils landscapes and communities never before seen on screen. Offering a clear-eyed look at the lives of adopted Indigenous children and intergenerational trauma, Blood Lines is a female-centered narrative exploring survival, patience, and community. Carried by a unique and warm humour, this new feature film by Gail Maurice, which follows Rosie, the opening film of I+N35 in 2022, stands out as one of the year’s most audacious releases.

The year 2025 also marks the 25th anniversary of Queerment Québec (QQ25), image+nation’s flagship initiative that supports queer filmmakers from Montreal and Quebec. The QQ25 event will be highlighted with special retrospective elements during its signature evening at the PHI Centre, in a night filled with meetings, exchanges, and discussions with the filmmakers in attendance.

Two new activities are also making their debut in the 2025 program.

To encourage networking and collaboration among the new generation of young Quebec filmmakers, The Student Night, a new initiative, brings together college (cégep) and university students in a space for exchanges and ideas. Highlighting the next wave of Quebec queer cinema and offering the public the opportunity to discover the next wave of LGBTQ+ storytellers, this evening, held at the NFB (National Film Board), promises to be a source of inspiration and new collaborations.

Finally, image+nation will also present The KINO Night, a presentation of queer short films created in collaboration with KINO Montréal. Celebrating the creativity and diversity of LGBTQ+ narratives, this event, also at the NFB, combines screening and networking, fostering connections between independent filmmakers and their peers.

The complete program will be announced soon.