Syracuse International Film Festival Presents Pride on Screen

Syracuse International Film Festival Presents Pride on Screen:

Come join us for a fabulous celebration of LGBTQ+ cinema at the Catherine Cummings Theatre! Get ready for a day filled with powerful stories, diverse voices, and unforgettable performances. From heartwarming coming-of-age tales to groundbreaking documentaries, this event will showcase the best of LGBTQ+ representation on screen. Don't miss out on this opportunity to immerse yourself in the beauty and resilience of the LGBTQ+ community through the art of film. See you there!

All featured artists and programming are subject to change.

🌈 Syracuse International Film Festival Presents Healing with Sound

*NEW to the Festival *

Friday, June 26, 2026- (Day 1- Program 1)

Doors Open 5:10 PM

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Sound Bath Session with Tienesha from Harmonic Path

6:30 PM - 6:45 PM Stage & Theatre Transition

A relaxing one-hour session designed to prepare attendees for the evening. Sound Bath Healing with Harmonic Path at the theatre!

Stay tuned for more details — this calming experience will follow Caz Pride's Parade. Relax, heal, and recharge with beautiful sound vibrations.

6:30 PM - 6:45 PM

Stage & Theatre Transition

Clear the stage and theatre in preparation for the film screening

🌈 Syracuse International Film Festival Presents

Pride on Screen: Glitter & Doom

Friday, June 26, 2026

Doors Open: 6:45 PM Opening Remarks 7:00 PM - 7:15 PM

7:15 PM - 9:10 PM Feature Presentation (Day 1- Program 2):

6:45 PM

Doors Open

Red carpet photos

Meet and greet with artists & guests

7:00 PM - 7:15 PM

Opening Remarks

7:15 PM - 9:10 PM

Film Screening: Glitter & Doom

Directed by Tom Gustafson

Genre: Musical, Romance

Duration: 1 hour 55 minutes

9:15 PM - 9:45 PM

Q & A Session

Audience engagement and discussion

Doors Close at 10:00 PM SHARP!

🌈 Syracuse International Film Festival Presents

Pride on Screen: 5 Short Films

Saturday, June 27, 2026

Doors Open: 10:30 AM Opening Remarks 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

11:15 AM - 1:00 PM Short Film Showcase (Day 2- Program 3):

Artists at the Edge

A short documentary film about "otherness" and two remarkable queer artists continuing to create at a moment when hard fought freedoms are being threatened in a polarized society. The heart of the film highlights the lives and works of these Provincetown artists who each found themselves six feet from stardom: Kenny Lockwood (a senior LGBTQ+ identifying painter, musician and herbologist) and Darlene Van Alstyne (a BIPOC LGBTQ+ identifying woman and singer, dancer and actress). The film, shot entirely in Provincetown, embraces creativity, equality and action at a time when our democracy stands on a precipice.

Cowboy Boots

Jack, a gay cowboy from Nebraska, finds anything but the promised land he envisioned when he visits a San Francisco gay club for the first time.

Emerald City

Two young men cross paths on the back roads of the American Southwest and despite their different backgrounds, find common ground along the Border.Emerald City is an lgbtqia+ story of two young men: one who has aged out of foster care where he was placed after his parents were deported and the other on his way to join the border patrol. Each isolated in their own way, both seek a sense of community, of belonging, and meet on the back roads of the American Southwest, where they develop a tentative friendship that gradually becomes more.

Ultramarine

In 1770's England, a professional artist becomes frustrated with her life and sets out to solve her mounting art block.

Committed

During the Lavender Scare, government files were created to track individuals deemed to have “weak morals.” Lists were made. Suspected gays were on those lists. Black and Native Americans were on those lists. Intellectuals. Feminists. This family was on those lists.A family's matriarch is hunted down by an underground government unit the night of their son's Birthday party, exposing her family to more than her perpetrators bargained for.Committed is the story of one American family simply trying to exist at a time in America that doesn't look to different from today.

Featuring: Committed, written by Upstate NY’s Lisa Cordileone and directed by Monica Raymund, is a suspense-driven short that follows a family’s darkest night when their matriarch is hunted by an underground government unit at their son’s birthday party — revealing more than anyone expected.

Doors Close for Parade at 1:15 PM Sharp!

Make sure you check out Caz Pride's Parade!

🎬 About the Event

Join us for an inspiring afternoon celebrating LGBTQI+ storytelling on screen, featuring a curated selection of powerful short and feature films that spotlight love, identity, resilience, and community.

“Pride on Screen” brings together diverse voices from across the globe—filmmakers who challenge convention, amplify representation, and move audiences through authentic, thought-provoking narratives.

This special Pride Month screening is part of the Syracuse International Film Festival’s year-round programming, highlighting the power of film to connect and uplift all audiences.

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Host or Publisher Michelle DiBernardo