HCAF 2024 will feature a wide variety of curated feature films with a focus on the diverse cultural community of Houston, Texas.

HCAF 2024 will also see the tenth Anniversary of CineSpace, our annual short film competition with NASA, as well as the fifth annual regional short film competition Borders - No Borders.

Our full festival lineup has been announced. Check out the schedule to discover the incredible films, performances, and special guests we have in store!

Schedule of Events:

7:30 pm: I'm Not Everything I Want to Be

In the last decades of the Soviet Union, a young, queer female photographer breaks free from the constraints of the repressive Czechoslovakian regime and embraces the underground hedonism of the times on a wild journey to freedom and self-acceptance. Based on the work and diaries of Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková, dubbed the 'Nan Goldin of Czechoslovakia' for her raw snapshots documenting the lives of queer individuals, migrants and other marginalized peoples, I'M NOT EVERYTHING I WANT TO BE captures her experiences through thousands of subjective photographs. Truly a life lived in pictures.

Director: Klára Tasovská
Runtime: 91 minutes

7:30 pm: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

In the much anticipated follow-up to her widely acclaimed debut I AM NOT A WITCH, Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni explores the aftermath of a mysterious death over a days-long funeral ceremony through the eyes of the deceased's family, including Shula who discovered the lifeless corpse on the side of the road. As the initial display of grief gives way to dark revelations about who their loved one truly was, Shula has to make a choice: must she remain silent or transform herself into the voice of those who have been silenced for so long? From A24 comes an elliptical, seriocomic fable about the lies we tell ourselves.

Director: Rungano Nyoni
Runtime: 98 minutes