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Panorama will be held at The Peabody Essex Museum
Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2026| 161 Essex St, Salem, MA 01970
Friday night tickets are free for all audience members!!!
Weekend tickets are free with purchase of entry to the PEM. Tickets to the PEM are free to Salem residents.
All films will be live streamed for free on Youtube for 24 hours.


TRAILER
MISSION
This is a grassroots festival that celebrates the wide diversity of experience and talent within the trans and queer young filmmaking community both in front of as well as behind the camera. We are creating space for trans and queer artists to tell their own and appreciate others' stories without pressure to advocate for an entire community.
RESILIENT CREATIONS
This year, Panorama’s theme embraces Resilient Creations — a celebration of the art, spirit, and defiance that define queer storytelling. In a year marked by political travesties and ignorant administrations, our festival stands proudly in its punk roots: unbothered and unbreakable. To be trans & queer is to be creative & to invent joy in the face of oppression, to find beauty in survival, and to turn rebellion into art. Resilient Creations is a testament to the filmmakers, performers, and storytellers who continue to create, connect, and celebrate even when the world feels heavy. Each project screened this weekend carries its own rhythm of resilience, amplifying stories that refuse to be silenced and voices that refuse to fade. Art, in all its global forms, is one of the most radical acts of resilience there is. So this weekend, we invite you to lean into the noise and the power of creation. Together, we celebrate not just survival, but the unstoppable force of queer joy.

Friday January 30th, 7:00 - 10:30 pm EST
Doors @ 7:00 PM
Opening Party 7:00 - 8:00 PM ft performances by Dick Kayin & The Velvet Dirtmunchers
Opening Night Panorama Screenings in the Morse Auditorium 8:15 - 9:45 PM
Closing Reception 9:45 - 10:30 PM
Saturday January 31st, 12:00 - 5:00 PM EST
Queer Without Borders (Foreign Film Block) in the Morse Auditorium 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Sapphic Shorts in the Morse Auditorium 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Panorama After Dark with Lydia in the Morse Auditorium 3:00 - 4:00 PM
Sunday February 1st, 10:30 AM- 3:30 PM EST
Rainbow Reels (All Ages Screening) in the Morse Auditorium 10:30 - 11:00 AM
T-Time! (Trans Films) in the Morse Auditorium 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Lens on Liberation (Documentaries) in the Morse Auditorium 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Filmmaker Talk Back in the Morse Auditorium 2:30 - 3:30 PM

Past Festivals

Photo Credits @adrianaarguijophotography | Fae Phoenix Photo | Michaela Berry | PEM









