Queer Lisboa 18 will be held for 9 days, programming circa 100 films. The Film Festival will include the Best Feature Film Competition (10 titles); Best Documentary Competition (10); Best Short Film Competition (20); European School Film Competition – In My Shorts (16); Panorama (6); Queer Focus (8); Queer Art (14); Hard Nights (6); John Waters Retrospective (10). Festival out-of-town screenings will be held in Porto and Coimbra in the two following weeks.A total of 12 international film related personalities will compose the Jury for the 4 different competitions. The 3 jury members of the In My Shorts Competition will also lecture a workshop and a masterclass to the European film school students attending the Festival. The two guest Film Schools for this edition are Universidade Lusófona (Lisbon), and UNATC - National University of Theatre and Film I.L. Caragiale (Bucharest), that will be represented in the Festival by their film work and students in attendance. For 2014, Queer Lisboa will also be publishing a book (circa 450 pages), bilingual (PT, EN), celebrating its 18th anniversary. The book is called “Queer Film and Culture”, and it will compile a series of essays written by Queer Lisboa programmers and international guest essayists and journalists, aiming to look at queer art and culture through the Festival program of these past 18 years.Queer Lisboa 18 aims to program the most narratively and aesthetically relevant titles of 2013 and 2014 for its competition programs, having in mind its age-wise broad audience and their different interests. With the John Waters retrospective, and with the iconic filmmaker in attendance, Queer Lisboa expects to reach an even broader audience and media interest.