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NewFest

10 October – 22 October 2024

New York’s leading LGBTQ+ film festival opens this years with romantic comedy A Nice Indian Boy and features over 140 films, representing 31 countries, which will screen in cinemas throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. It includes 25 première narrative features, 14 documentary features, 9 legacy retrospective features, and more.

55% of the films are directed by women, non-binary, trans or two-spirit filmmakers, with 66% directed by people of colour. 82% of the line-up is by and about historically underrepresented voices and identities within the LGBTQIA+ community

The festival runs from 10 to 22 October.

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  • Baby
    Review preview for Baby

    It is the things taken for granted, as much as the things that stand out, which shape the tale.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    After being released from a juvenile detention center, Wellington finds himself alone and adrift on the streets of São Paulo. During a visit to a porn theater, he encounters Ronaldo, a mature man, who teaches him new ways of surviving.
  • Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
    Review preview for Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story

    If you don’t have a clear sense of who she is when you go in, you may come out feeling none the wiser.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A documentary about Liza Minelli and the key individuals who influenced her career.
  • Tops
    Review preview for Tops

    What directors Jos Bitelli and Ames Pennington deliver is, in its own way, close to the bone, but it’s also joyously silly.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A brash, satirical mockumentary exploring life after top surgery through the medium of amateur broadcasting.
  • Alok
    Review preview for Alok

    Hedison’s lens cannot show us everything. The film requires viewers to be as open as possible, to really listen and reflect.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A documentary portrait of Alok Vaid-Menon, the internationally acclaimed non-binary author, poet, comedian and public speaker.
  • Duino
    Review preview for Duino

    The relationship between fiction and memory, artifice and life undergoes subtle shifts over the course of di Pace’s tale.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An Argentinian filmmaker struggling to finish a movie about his unrequited first love receives an unexpected invitation to reconstruct his memories, revisit his past and perhaps even find a new ending to his story.
  • Fanatical: The Catfishing Of Tegan And Sara
    Review preview for Fanatical: The Catfishing Of Tegan And Sara

    This is a powerful example of the phenomenon because it has affected so many different individuals, lending itself to a deeper analysis than is often possible.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    The story of how indie rock star Tegan's identity was stolen and weaponised in a complex catfishing scheme.
  • Meanwhile
    Review preview for Meanwhile

    Gund’s poetic approach enables this documentary to go where others could not, to capture the existential effects on people of colour of day to day life in a white supremacist culture.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A poetic, non-linear journey that explores the impact of white supremacy on connection, relationships, and life.
  • Gondola
    Review preview for Gondola

    It has the sweetness – and cartoonish violence – of a wholesome Sixties family film, albeit with a European attitude to nudity.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Two female cable car operators fall in love as they pass each other in their gondolas.
  • Carnage For Christmas
    Review preview for Carnage For Christmas

    Mackay succeeds where [others] have failed partly because there is a deep vein of sincerity beneath the playful surface of her work.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    When true-crime podcaster and sleuth Lola visits her hometown for the first time since running away and transitioning, the local urban legend, The Toymaker, is the least of her worries. But then the vengeful ghost of the historical murderer seemingly rises again.
  • Extremely Unique Dynamic
    Review preview for Extremely Unique Dynamic

    Not everything here is successful, but the delicately handled character material pays dividends, and the real life chemistry between the two stars carries across well to their characters.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    During their final weekend together, two best friends test the limits of their friendship while making a double-meta film.

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