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The 35th Annual New York LGBTQ+ film festival, Newfest includes over a dozen premières and will open with George C Wolfe’s Rustin, with Andrew Haigh’s All Of Us Strangers bringing it to a close.
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The festival runs from 12 to 24 October.
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Newfest Latest Reviews
Thomas and Oscar have spent a year as foster parents to a wonderful child, a calling that's shown them new dimensions of what 'family' can mean. However, when the young boy is reunited with his birth mother, the couple's differing views on what the experience meant come into focus.
A love letter to the mosaic of queer lives in Saigon, a city that is as liberating as it is oppressive.
A lesbian suddenly finds herself responsible for her partner’s two daughters.
Conflicted by his mother's new relationship and his best friend's crush on him, Bruno, a pyromaniac teenager, escapes from the city. He sets off on a journey in search of a girl he met online who will push him to confront his father's death and the doubts about his sexuality, but not before leaving all his fires behind.
Trying to satisfy a diversity checklist, a group of women of colour and queer women discover the real intention behind their workshop retreat.
A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellin, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city.
A documentary which aims to break open the conversation around sexual life in the disabled community.
20 years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
Romance unfolds at a chicken packing factory.
A young professional dominant gets a surprise just when he's trying to impress the boss in a new job.
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