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9 October – 21 October 2025

New York City's leading LGBTQ+ film festival is back with a sizzling line-up for a hot October. The festival runs from 9 to 21 October.

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  • Night Stage
    Review preview for Night Stage

    The film is shot in gorgeous shades of noir by Luciana Baseggio, and has a deliciously dark, sultry score.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    An actor and a politician start an affair and discover a fetish for having sex in public places. The closer they get to their dreams, the more risk taking they become.
  • Christy
    Review preview for Christy

    The performance [Sweeney] gives here, slipping easily into Christy’s skin, is going to knock some people for six.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    The story of Christy Martin, the most successful female boxer of the Nineties.
  • Niñxs
    Review preview for Niñxs

    Mexican director Kani Lapuerta invites both viewers and star to change their frames of reference in a documentary as bold as it is charming.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A documentary following a teenager's transition.
  • Queens Of The Dead
    Review preview for Queens Of The Dead

    Tina Romero is in her element.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    On what should be a fun night at a Brooklyn warehouse party, an outbreak of flesh-eating zombies forces a ragtag group of drag queens, partygoers and party-throwers to band together and somehow survive the night.
  • The Serpent's Skin
    Review preview for The Serpent's Skin

    Alice Maio Mackay’s...most accessible film to date.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A young woman leaves her transphobic small-town, and develops a romance with tattoo artist Gen with whom she shares a paranormal connection. But their deep-rooted insecurities unknowingly release a demon, which possesses one of their ex-lovers and begins feeding on their friends by sucking out their lifeforce.
  • Fucktoys
    Review preview for Fucktoys

    Any number of films try to sell themselves on inviting us to ogle outsiders like these. The difference with Fucktoys is that it’s made by people who actually get it.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A bubblegum grindhouse adventure through sunny and romantic Trashtown, USA.
  • Summer's Camera
    Review preview for Summer's Camera

    Sung’s own camera plays tricks, placing objects too close in the foreground so that parts of an image are out of focus, like an incomplete memory.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Summer refuses to shoot the unfinished roll of film in her father’s camera. That is, until she finds herself captivated by Yeon-woo, her school’s football star. But when the roll is developed, Summer discovers her father’s own high-school relationship with Maru, a local hairdresser.
  • We Are Faheem & Karun
    Review preview for We Are Faheem & Karun

    Through the lens of the men’s romance, Onir takes in a good deal more, exploring the complex realities behind assumptions of prejudice and the myriad factors that go into making each of us who we are.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Karun, a security man from southern India, is posted to Gurez, a remote village in Kashmir. There, he begins a relationship with Faheem, a young Kashmiri man. But it’s a romance that seems doomed from the start
  • She's The He
    Review preview for She's The He

    Director Siobhan McCarthy is adept at using the long-established visual language of the high school movie both to entertain and to show us the world from a perspective that’s relatively new to cinema.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Just before graduation, Alex and Ethan pretend to be trans to get into the girl's lockers. It's all a joke until Ethan realises that for her, it's true. The two must reckon with their changing friendship and the process of coming out.
  • Blue Moon
    Review preview for Blue Moon

    As Blue Moon progresses it becomes clear that the one thing Hart really wants is to be wanted.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his groundbreaking hit musical Oklahoma!.

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