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Netflix and NewFest Unveil 2023 New Voices Filmmaker Grant Recipients (Exclusive) The Hollywood Reporter
NewFest Organizers Talk Queer Spaces in NYC NYC Tourism
Pride Month in New York Is Back. Here’s How to Celebrate. The New York Times
Lists
NewFest35 | The 35th Annual NY LGBTQ+ Film Festival 105 films
Let the party begin 🥂
We're celebrating 35 years of sharing queer cinema with our community by programming over 130+…
NewFest34 | The 34th Annual NY LGBTQ+ Film Festival 112 films
Virtual programming available throughout the US + in-person across NY October 13-25, 2022 ❤️🔥
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NewFest33 | The 33th Annual NY LGBTQ+ Film Festival 104 films
Check out our lineup for the 33rd annual New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival! #NewFest2021 is available virtually + in-person October…
NewFest32 | The 32th Annual NY LGBTQ+ Film Festival 106 films
2020
NewFest31 | The 31th Annual NY LGBTQ+ Film Festival 111 films
2019
NewFest30 | The 30th Annual NY LGBTQ+ Film Festival 42 films
2018
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Writer/director/star Julio Torres and Academy Award®-winner Tilda Swinton team up for this New York-set absurdist comedy about career dreams, bureaucracy, and the art world 🥚
New York Premiere June 2, 2023 at NewFest Pride
A young girl recounts growing up with her queer dad in '70s and '80s San Francisco in this star-studded drama 🤠
New York Premiere June 1, 2023 at NewFest Pride
Watch a clip from our Q&A after the NY Premiere with director Lisa Cortés here.
Summer 1999. In blue-collar North Melbourne, 18-year-old Serbian immigrant Kol is out of school forever. He’s preparing for the Australian Dance finals when he receives a distress call from his dance partner, Ebony, who has woken up on an unfamiliar beach after a big night out. With the help of Ebony’s older brother, Adam, they attempt to make it to the finals on time but when Kol and Adam get stuck in summer traffic, they begin to realize they have…
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"Nearly all of us, fat and thin alike, have spent a lifetime learning to see fat people as problems, pariahs, or scapegoats. But what if, instead of doing what we know how to do–instead of comfortably, distantly blaming fat people–we looked at ourselves? What would happen if we interrogated our own beliefs? What would happen if we acknowledged our own complicity in hurting and harming fat people? What would become of us if we sat quietly with our own misconceptions,…
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learning that andrew’s interviews were all recorded for this documentary, in a conversation-format with george’s interviews from before his passing from various other sources… was just as beautiful as watching them perform their final show together… a beautiful exchange between two friends who love each other, yet who understand that something deeply tragic perhaps is at foot/are watching such a good thing come to an end
two friends talk across time with one another.. 🥹
emma seligman smiled at me. made my whole night. shoutout to the fellow newfest volunteers who stood with me at the back of the theater for the entire 92 minutes
edit: emma seligman and havana rose liu are the absolute loveliest people and what a lovely film to kick off pride month with
This list includes all films (on Letterboxd) that have played at an annual NewFest festival, Queering the Canon, or NewFest: Pride Event from 1988 — present 🫶
How many have you seen?