Queer Screen’s 2016 Mardi Gras Film Festival kicks off in a few weeks and it’s promising to be bigger and better than ever before with more venues, screenings, events and international guests.

While the lineup of international movies is more than impressive and enough to whet the appetite of all film lovers, we’ve compiled a guide to all the Australian films you can catch this year… We are Cinema Australia after all.

This year’s festival runs from February 18 until March 3. You can find more details here.

Ecco Homo

Directed by: Lynn-Maree Milburn and Richard Lowenstein
Starring: Troy Davies, Michael Hutchence
Festival guest: Richard Lowenstein and Maya Gnyp
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Scrum

Directed by: Poppy Stockell
Festival guests: Poppy Stockell and Andrew Purchas
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Remembering the Man

Directed by: Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe
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Downriver

Directed by: Grant Scicluna
Festival guests: Grant Scicluna and Jannine Barnes
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My Queer Career – Australia’s largest LGBTIQ film prize

A Private Matter Directed and produced by Kate Halpin
Don’t Cry Those Tears Directed and produced by Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston
Followers Directed by Tim Marshall and produced by Christina Radburn
Little Boy Blue Directed by Nathan Keene and produced by Will Faulkner and Joy Baines
Marrow Directed by Stevie Cruz-Martin and produced by Daniel Monks
Oasis Directed by Joshua Longhurst and produced by Annmaree J Bell, Craig Boreham
On Stage Directed by Ben Southwell and produced by Ian Ludwick
The Summer of ABC Burns Directed by Dannika Horvat produced by Stephanie Westwood

You can find out more about the festival at http://www.queerscreen.org.au