Tag! Queer Shorts Festival

Beginnings and endings flow together in Joshua Tree (Part 2), a meditation on love and death from Tiffani Marie and Gelli Pascual rooted in African ancestral imagery. This Festival Director's Award winner plays on April 11, 4pm at the Clinton @cstpdx.bsky.social cstpdxtickets.square.site

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Who's making their mark at Tag! 2026? Drew Dickler shows the impact of authentic living in Big Bass, a story about an unknowingly supportive lesbian teacher from the past. Get tickets today for the opening screening at the Clinton @cstpdx.bsky.social on April 11, 4pm! cstpdxtickets.square.site

We have so many great films at Tag! Queer Shorts Festival this year, get your tickets now from cstpdxtickets.square.site! @pinklabeltv.bsky.social @jizlee.bsky.social @slider6.bsky.social

A man in a tank top and leather jacket leans in his seat in a club, his face reflecting the red and green light flooding the room.

Who's making their mark in Tag! 2026? Director Peter Kalisch makes his narrative short debut with Exploitation, a film meant to confront the darker experiences shared by many queer people with honesty and vulnerability. Tickets for the opening program are at cstpdxtickets.square.site!

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Who is making their mark at Tag! 2026? Mourning and revenge are intertwined in Seamos mejores (A Ghosting Story) from Iñaki Goldaracena and @jorgelarumbe.bsky.social. It's in our opening program April 11, 4pm at @cstpdx.bsky.social. Get tickets at cstpdxtickets.square.site!

Can't wait to see everyone at Tag! Queer Shorts Festival 2026!

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Who's making their mark at Tag! 2026? A woman early in her transition finds community and acceptance in Sorority from @ashleygianni.bsky.social, it's in our opening block on April 11, 4pm. Don't miss it, get your tix today at cstpdxtickets.square.site @cstpdx.bsky.social

Thanks to @questcenter.bsky.social for supporting this award for a second year!

Celeste Lecesne stands on a New York street in a hot pink top with arms raised in a Y shape

Who's making their mark at Tag! 2026? Learn about Trevor Project co-founder Celeste Lecesne in an eponymous documentary from Eva Tenuto and Natalia Iyudin. It's the winner of the Quest Center Award for The Power of Community! Tix at cstpdxtickets.square.site @cstpdx.bsky.social

Charlie's head in profile stands out against a wall cluttered with posters in a screen shot from Part of the Band.

Who's making their mark at Tag! this year? Charlie follows a crush and starts to find themself instead in Part of the Band, in our opening program on April 11, 4pm. Get your tickets today at cstpdxtickets.square.site!

Screen shot from Intercambio features a bearded man trapped in a public toilet with a trans woman.

Who's making their mark at Tag! 2026? A kinky online purchase goes off the rails in Intercambio (The Exchange) by Amaia Yoldi in our opening program on April 11, 4pm. Tix available now at cstpdxtickets.square.site! @cstpdx.bsky.social

The background features graffiti images and the Clinton façade, the Get Up and Tag! logos are featured along with text inviting purchase of an all-festival pass for $45.

Tag! QSF is just over a month away! We'll be featuring all of the films in coming days, but remember that the best way to see them all is with an all-festival pass, in limited supply and on sale now for just $45! Support queer independent artists today! @cstpdx.bsky.social

The brochures have arrived! Thanks to the always queer-embracing union shop Morel Ink for the quick turnaround and quality print job. Got a home for some publicity? Contact Tag! and we'll get you some of these beauties to put out!

We've got some great films in the 2026 program, catch a glimpse of them here! Tickets are here, head over to cstpdxtickets.square.site and scrollllll down to find us in the April listings! Thanks to PDX Events & Film and to @cstpdx.bsky.social @questcenter.bsky.social @grandgesturebooks.bsky.social

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We have posters coming!! If you're local to Portland and would like to help promote our great filmmakers, hit us up and we'll get some to you!

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Amazing News!

The TAG! Queer Shorts Festival has announced its Grand Gesture Books Award for "Best Erotic Short" to CrashPadSeries: J London & Johnny Castro!

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Background image shows the end of Tillikum Crossing with a utility box painted with "Fuck ICE." The festival logo appears at the top and below it are details of the Tagging Cascadia session of the festival on April 12, 7pm.

The festival closes with PNW directing/acting talent. Come support your fam!

A Seat at the Table [USA]
A Wedding to Diego [USA]
Controlling the Narrative [USA]
Hell is Cool [Aotearoa]
Mean Goals [USA]
Mickaela: Connection | Isolation [USA]
Ornaments [USA]
Room for the Rest [Canada]
Unmasking [USA]

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Here's our 3rd block, a sampling of all the genres we get each year!!

Anything With a Switch
Canvas
Dance Like Everyone's Watching
In Due Time
Kokuhaku*
Lesbian Vampyres from Outter Space
Le sève sous ta langue
Merlyn's Beard
Pink Oz's
The D Word
The King
(Un)Free Will—The Confession

Background image is a graffiti drawing of a woman in a bikini from behind, the Tag! logo appears at the top and text gives details of the erotic film block on April 11 at 7pm.

More queer and diverse than HUMP, our Get Up, Get Off program includes the following shorts:

Backseat
CrashPadSeries: J London & Johnny Castro*
Daddylove
El bosque me habló sobre ti
It's My Birthday and I'll Cum if You Let Me
Meet the Camera
No Man Like Me
Not Exactly Strangers
Sex Siren

Our opening block THE HEAVEN SPOT looks at both affirming and disruptive ways queers show up for each other.

Big Bass [USA]
Exploitation [USA]
Intercambio [Spain]
Joshua Tree (Part 2) [USA]*
One Story at a Time: Celeste Lecesne [USA]*
Part of the Band [Canada]
Seamos mejores [Spain]
Sorority [USA]

Congratulations on your selection and for your award!

Background image is a freeway overpass with the words "fuck ICE" spray painted on a concrete barricade. The text includes the Tag! logo and the URL for the 2026 official selections page. A QR code is provided as a direct link.

Official selections for the 2026 edition of Tag! Queer Shorts Festival will be announced today! Filmmakers should expect a message from FilmFreeway at around 3pm and the list will go live at tagqsf.org at 4pm. Congratulations, directors!

If you identify as trans, intersex, non-binary, or agender, you may want to check out the call for entries from the tink festival in Hamburg: tinkino.org/en/

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Woohoo, we got a record number of submissions for our 2026 festival! Tag! Entries are now closed unless you have an invitation from Tag! (password required). Official selection announcements go out on February 1, 2026!

Background images feature the Clinton St Theater and "fuck ICE" graffiti under the Marquam bridge. Texts announces the final submission date for the 2026 festival, December 1.

We're in the final days of open submissions for the 2026 festival! Get your films in today at filmfreeway.com/tagqsf. After Monday only invited projects will be accepted.

Background images show the Clinton St Theater and Portland graffiti. The text describes the new Best Erotic Short prize sponsored by Grand Gesture Books and gives the submission link.

What?! A new award!? YES!!! Our local Black queer woman-owned Grand Gesture Books is sponsoring our first-ever prize for best erotic short! We're just under 3 weeks from closing so get your submission to us on FilmFreeway.com/tagqsf

Background images show Portland graffiti and the Clinton Street Theater. The text describes a festival award for Latine/Hispane creators sponsored by Milagro and gives final deadline information.

If you have ethnic ties to Latin America or the Iberian Peninsula, your film could win the Hispane/Latine Creativity award sponsored by Milagro, a Portland nonprofit that serves Latino communities through art and entertainment. Don't miss ¡Alebrijes! on now, tix at milagro.org!

Background images depict the Clinton Street Theater and Portland graffiti; the text describes the Power of Community award sponsored by the Quest Center for Integrative Health and provides a QR code link to submit films.

Does your film highlight queer approaches to power and community building? You could be the winner of the Power of Community award sponsored by @questcenter.bsky.social Award details are at filmfreeway.com/tagqsf #queerfilm #lgbtqia #shortfilms #filmfestival

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Tag! is committed to creating accessible film experiences and we require captions for all films that have dialogue or sound effects that advance the story. Be sure to update your FilmFreeway project file with high-quality SRT captions files!