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New York's premier LGBT festival is taking place in hybrid form in 2021, and has a spectacular line-up, with cutting edge films from around the world as well as some natural crowd-pleasers.
The festival runs from 15 to 26 October.
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Newfest Latest Reviews
Just as the Earth is, our inner selves are made up of many layers that make up our identity and tell the story of our existence.
Nine-year-old Johnny sends his spirit into his babysitter Melanie and gets to be a woman for a day.
Two sex workers meet in a Berlin brothel. In a place where the female body is a commodity, they experience moments of happiness.
A queer college freshman who joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.
Two African-American women who can "pass" as white choose to live on opposite sides of the colour line in 1929 New York in an exploration of racial and gender identity, performance, obsession and repression.
This documentary explores a group of gay women songwriters who have successfully navigated the male dominated country music genre and have written number one hits for some of country music's greatest stars.
Denny, a free spirit and artist falls for Ryan, a strait-laced lawyer. When Denny questions gender their love is tested.
An intersex boy comes of age and explores the ambiguities of his identity and desires.
The director of a low-budget queer thriller tries to solve a violent murder mystery that threatens his set.
A madcap romp through the 1980s NYC art scene amid the colorful career of painter, Edward Brezinski, hell-bent on making it.
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