B-Side has many great partner festivals coming up next week. Here are a few festival profiles for the week of September 7-13:

The Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival (aGLIFF) cultivates the Central Texas lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) film and arts community through the exhibition and support of the best in recent LGBTQI international, national, and regional films. Running September 8-13, 2009, aGLIFF is the oldest and largest festival of its kind in the Southwest, and seeks to educate the community, promote the best films, and create positive images regarding LGBTQI people.

The festival showcases features and shorts, mainstream and avant-garde. Symposia and panels explore current political and social trends. Special shorts programs focus on issues faced by LGBTQI youth, immigration of LGBTQI people,  gender identity and expression, adoption, marriage, military service, religion, racial identity, cultural issues, and hate crimes against LGBTQI-identified people. View aGLIFF’s schedule to see this year’s films and events.

Other festivals starting next week include:

SF Shorts (Sept 9-12): Showcasing six programs of mixed-genre shorts representing 20 countries, the eclectic selection of the San Francisco International Festival of Short Films allows very different films and subjects to rub up against each other. Some of the shorts in competition this year include Andheri, about a maid in Mumbai in search for a better life, Prayers for Peace, a stop-motion animation short drawn entirely on a chalkboard, and The Mouse That Soared, featuring a famous flying circus mouse and the humble beginnings of his aerodynamic career.

Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival (Sept 9-13)

Southern Winds Film Festival (Sept 10-12)

DC Shorts Film Festival (Sept 10-17)

Chicago Underground Film Festival (Sept 10-17)

Rome International Film Festival (Sept 11-12)

Cinesol Film Festival (Sept 11-25)

Trinity Film Coalition Film Festival (Sept 12)