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New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival

Oct 11—Oct 18, 2024
    Part of
  • BAM Film 2024

NewFest returns to BAM to celebrate the 36th anniversary of its annual New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival! Don’t miss the queer cultural event of the fall, featuring a thrilling lineup of highly anticipated LGBTQ+ films from around the world. The schedule includes over 140 premiere narrative, documentary, and short films, TV series, panel conversations, and more—plus parties!

In addition to events at BAM, NewFest includes in-person screenings and Q&A’s at SVA Theatre and The LGBT Community Center in Manhattan, and at Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park. And with a Festival Pass, you can enjoy in-person benefits—including exclusive events, reserved seats, and more—and access streaming films virtually throughout the US.

 

Leadership support for
BAM’s strategic initiatives provided by:

Mellon Foundation

Leadership support for BAM Access Programs provided by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation

JL Greene

Leadership support for
BAM’s strategic initiatives provided by:

Altman Foundation

Leadership support for
BAM Film provided by
The Thompson Family Foundation

Major support for programs in the
Lepercq Cinema is provided by
The Lepercq Charitable Foundation

Newfest

  • Film

    Looking For Langston & Tongues Untied: 35th Anniversary Double-Bill

    IN PERSON: Fri, Oct 11 at 7pm; STREAMING: Oct 10—22

    Looking For Langston & Tongues Untied: 35th Anniversary Double-Bill

    IN PERSON: Fri, Oct 11 at 7pm; STREAMING: Oct 10—22

    A landmark double bill celebrates the 35th anniversary of two groundbreaking works of Black queer male identity, expression, and catharsis: Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston and Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied.

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    Looking For Langston & Tongues Untied: 35th Anniversary Double-Bill

    IN PERSON: Fri, Oct 11 at 7pm; STREAMING: Oct 10—22

    A landmark double bill celebrates two groundbreaking works of Black queer male identity.

  • Film

    Pecker

    Sat, Oct 12, 2024

    Pecker

    Sat, Oct 12, 2024

    One of the sharpest and sweetest satires in John Waters’s formidable filmography, Pecker skewers the absurdity of haughty gallery culture while playfully confronting exploitation, consent, and fame.

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    Pecker

    Sat, Oct 12, 2024

    One of John Waters’s sharpest, sweetest satires skewers the absurdity of gallery culture.

  • Film

    Polyester

    Sat, Oct 12, 2024

    Polyester

    Sat, Oct 12, 2024

    Camp icon Divine stars as a frustrated housewife whose domestic life isn’t exactly what she imagined, in John Waters’s perfectly pungent parody of Douglas Sirk’s so-called “women’s pictures.”

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    Polyester

    Sat, Oct 12, 2024

    Camp icon Divine stars as a frustrated suburban housewife in this pungent parody.

  • Film

    Female Trouble: 50th Anniversary

    Sat, Oct 12, 2024

    Female Trouble: 50th Anniversary

    Sat, Oct 12, 2024

    Divine delivers a powerhouse performance for the ages as self-proclaimed “thief and shit-kicker” Dawn Davenport in John Waters’s saga of delinquency, disrespecting everyone with her crooked smile.

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    Female Trouble: 50th Anniversary

    Sat, Oct 12, 2024

    Divine delivers a performance for the ages in John Waters’s saga of delinquency.

  • Film

    Shorts: Caribbean Pride Power

    IN PERSON: Sun, Oct 13 at 4pm; STREAMING: Oct 10—22

    Shorts: Caribbean Pride Power

    IN PERSON: Sun, Oct 13 at 4pm; STREAMING: Oct 10—22

    Celebrate queer expression and reconciliation with this vivid showcase of Caribbean LGBTQ+ short films, concluding with a joyful cinematic celebration at the West Indian Day Carnival Parade.

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    Shorts: Caribbean Pride Power

    IN PERSON: Sun, Oct 13 at 4pm; STREAMING: Oct 10—22

    A vivid showcase of Caribbean LGBTQ+ shorts celebrates queer expression and reconciliation.

  • Film

    Teaches of Peaches

    IN PERSON: Sun, Oct 13 at 7pm; STREAMING: Oct 10—22

    Teaches of Peaches

    IN PERSON: Sun, Oct 13 at 7pm; STREAMING: Oct 10—22

    Alt-queer rocker Peaches is at the center of a propulsive, entertaining documentary that mixes archival footage, interviews with new and long-time collaborators, and behind-the-scenes tour rehearsals.

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    Teaches of Peaches

    IN PERSON: Sun, Oct 13 at 7pm; STREAMING: Oct 10—22

    Alt-queer rocker Peaches is at the center of this propulsive, entertaining documentary.

  • Film

    This is Ballroom

    Mon, Oct 14, 2024

    This is Ballroom

    Mon, Oct 14, 2024

    The beats never cease in this trans-led documentary that transports viewers to the pulsating heart of the vibrant ballroom scene in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, directed by locally immersed artists.

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    This is Ballroom

    Mon, Oct 14, 2024

    A trans-led documentary takes viewers into the vibrant ballroom scene near Rio de Janeiro.

  • Film

    Dressed In Blue

    IN PERSON: Tue, Oct 15 at 7pm; STREAMING: Oct 10—22

    Dressed In Blue

    IN PERSON: Tue, Oct 15 at 7pm; STREAMING: Oct 10—22

    This groundbreaking documentary showcases the lives of six trans women in post-Franco Spain, presenting their stories and dreams as well as providing intimate footage of trans-feminine routines.

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    Dressed In Blue

    IN PERSON: Tue, Oct 15 at 7pm; STREAMING: Oct 10—22

    A groundbreaking documentary showcases the lives of six trans women in post-Franco Spain.

  • Film

    Drip Like Coffee

    IN PERSON: Wed, Oct 16 at 7pm; STREAMING: Oct 10—22

    Drip Like Coffee

    IN PERSON: Wed, Oct 16 at 7pm; STREAMING: Oct 10—22

    Struggling to emotionally support her needy boyfriend, Brooklyn barista Kali finds moments of delight through intimate conversations and sharing delicious coffee notes with up-and-coming photographer Mel.

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    Drip Like Coffee

    IN PERSON: Wed, Oct 16 at 7pm; STREAMING: Oct 10—22

    NewFest alumna Anaiis Cisco directs a sensual exploration of Black women’s love stories.

  • Film

    Reas

    Thu, Oct 17, 2024

    Reas

    Thu, Oct 17, 2024

    A breathtakingly imaginative nonfiction musical explores the vital dynamics fostered among inmates at a women’s prison in Buenos Aires, through fantastical yet grounded re-creations of day-to-day life.

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    Reas

    Thu, Oct 17, 2024

    A nonfiction musical explores dynamics fostered among inmates at a women’s prison.

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