This year, NewFest, the 33rd annual New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival, will be a virtual and in-person event. After being forced to be largely an online fest, Newfest welcomes back audiences to celebrate queer stories and storytellers. There are four locations for the in-person screenings; SVA Theatre, The LGBT Community Center, BAM Rose Cinemas and Nitehawk Cinema in Brooklyn.
The Opening Night film will be "Mayor Pete", an intimate documentary about Pete Buttigieg’s campaign to be the first openly gay U.S. president. The film from Jesse Moss (who recently won an Emmy for his last documentary feature, "Boys State") follows the former South Bend, Indiana Mayor from the early days of his campaign, examining all of the challenges and triumphs he faced throughout his run for the highest office in the land.
The International Centerpiece is "A Distant Place" from South Korean director, Park Kun-Young. This drama involves a local farmer living with his adventurous young daughter. When his city-dwelling lover comes to visit, he begins to imagine their future as a family. But the unplanned arrival of his twin sister threatens to complicate his dream.
The New York Centerpiece is "Passing", the actress, Rebecca Hall's directorial debut that she adapted from Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel. This in-person only screening features Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson in the story of two childhood friends who reunite and the discovery that one has changed her racial identity. The US Centerpiece will be "Potato Dreams of America", writer/director Wes Hurley’s semi-autobiographical dramatic-comedy. With a love for old Hollywood movies and concerned for her son’s future in 1980's USSR, Lena becomes a mail-order bride and moves to the United States. But as her young son begin to explore his sexuality and her American husband is deeply homophobic, this creates problems within this family.
There will be a 30th anniversary screening of Madonna's groundbreaking documentary, "Truth or Dare" which chronicles the pop superstar's 1990 "Blond Ambition" tour and introduced us to her openly queer back-up dancers; the 10th anniversary of "Pariah", Dee Rees’ influencial debut feature that is a moving exploration in to the life of a Black, queer 17-year-old poet trying to make her way in to the world. And "Shortbus", John Cameron Mitchell’s exuberant exploration of life, sex and happiness in New York City, will be shown in honor of it's 15th Anniversary with a 4K Restoration.
And the Closing Night film is "Flee" from director Jonas Poher Rasmussen. This winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance combines animation and emotional narrative to tell the harrowing ordeal of how Amin Nawabi and his family escaped from Afghanistan before re-settling in Denmark.
For a complete list of films and to purchase tickets and passes, please click below:
Newfest 2021
The New York Centerpiece is "Passing", the actress, Rebecca Hall's directorial debut that she adapted from Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel. This in-person only screening features Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson in the story of two childhood friends who reunite and the discovery that one has changed her racial identity. The US Centerpiece will be "Potato Dreams of America", writer/director Wes Hurley’s semi-autobiographical dramatic-comedy. With a love for old Hollywood movies and concerned for her son’s future in 1980's USSR, Lena becomes a mail-order bride and moves to the United States. But as her young son begin to explore his sexuality and her American husband is deeply homophobic, this creates problems within this family.
There will be a 30th anniversary screening of Madonna's groundbreaking documentary, "Truth or Dare" which chronicles the pop superstar's 1990 "Blond Ambition" tour and introduced us to her openly queer back-up dancers; the 10th anniversary of "Pariah", Dee Rees’ influencial debut feature that is a moving exploration in to the life of a Black, queer 17-year-old poet trying to make her way in to the world. And "Shortbus", John Cameron Mitchell’s exuberant exploration of life, sex and happiness in New York City, will be shown in honor of it's 15th Anniversary with a 4K Restoration.
And the Closing Night film is "Flee" from director Jonas Poher Rasmussen. This winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance combines animation and emotional narrative to tell the harrowing ordeal of how Amin Nawabi and his family escaped from Afghanistan before re-settling in Denmark.
For a complete list of films and to purchase tickets and passes, please click below:
Newfest 2021
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