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With films boasting strong ticket sales and positive audience reaction, QFest is excited to announce this year’s festival favorites! As part of the Closing Night festivities on Monday, July 18, QFest will present a lineup of 7 films that serve as a great snapshot of this year’s 12-day LGBT cinema extravaganza. The lineup covers everything from politics and same-sex marriage, to the comedic tale of a young, “straight” man with queer fantasies.

Maybe you missed them the first go ‘round – or you’d like to see them one last time. Whatever the reason, add a few screenings of festival favorites to your Closing Night itinerary! The favorites are: 

The Night Watch - 4:30pm, Ritz East 1: Love and tragic loss in an exceptional time are richly brought to life in The Night Watch, the fourth book-to-screen BBC adaptation from lauded novelist and QFest favorite Sarah Waters.

Private Romeo  - 5:00pm, Ritz East 2: One of the more original features in this year's festival (and huge hit, screening to near sell-out crowds): a gay take on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet set in a boys' military academy.

Eating Out – Drama Camp - 5:00pm, Ritz Bourse: Chris Salvatore and Daniel Skelton return, along with Rebekah Kochan and cult icon Mink Stole in the fourth installment of Q. Allan Brocka's hilarious and sexy Eating Out series!

Morgan – 7:00pm, Ritz East 2: A young NYC man, in a wheelchair after an accident, finds a reason to live and thrive after he meets another man.

Married in Spandex (with the short Time Spent) – 7:15pm, Ritz Bourse: QFest has  the honor of playing host to the World Premiere of this offbeat doc that follows two West Philadelphians who travel to Iowa to fulfill their dreams and add some fire to the same sex-marriage debate raging in Pennsylvania.

Longhorns – 9:15pm, Ritz East 2: This raucous sex comedy tells the story of a "straight" Texas fratboy who realizes that maybe all his man-on-man fantasies, going down on his buddies, and falling for the only openly gay student on campus means he just might be queer.

eCupid – 9:30pm, Ritz Bourse: Things are not always what you expect them to be in this gorgeously-crafted romance from J.C. Calciano (Is It Just Me?) with hot leads, a quirky unpredictable script and streak of sweet whimsy.

Fest favorites will screen as part of our Closing Night festivities, on Monday, July 18 – which include the 7:00pm screening of the Closing Night film, Going Down in La-La Land - a probing, sexy, uncensored, scandalous, outrageously funny exposé about the lengths to which an actor will go to not only survive but get ahead in Hollywood – and the Closing Night celebration and Jury & Audience Award Presentation at TRUST, hosted by WMMR’s Pierre Robert, 9:30pm-12:30am.