NewFest 2014
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July 24 – 29
NewFest, New York’s premier LGBT film festival, celebrates its 26th year with a diverse and compelling lineup of narratives, documentaries, shorts, and parties! The sexy, poignant Opening Night selection, Futuro Beach, from Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz (Madame Satã), is about a lifeguard who falls in love with a German tourist in the aftermath of a tragedy. Closing Night is Gerontophilia, an intergenerational love story that marks a surprising turn toward romance by queer Canadian provocateur Bruce LaBruce. The NewFest Achievement Award goes this year to distinguished New York director Ira Sachs, whose examination of gay relationships in films like Keep the Lights On, The Delta, and the new Love Is Strange defy expectation and stereotype at all turns.
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Futuro Beach
Opening Night
New York Premiere; Q&A with Karim Aïnouz
When a Brazilian lifeguard fails to save a swimmer from drowning, he seeks out the victim’s friend, a handsome German biker with whom he begins a passionate affair. Years later in Berlin, their seemingly peaceful life is threatened by a visitor from the past.
Gerontophilia
Closing Night
New York Premiere
Q&A with Bruce LaBruce. Screening includes pre-reception cocktails and private after-party.
A handsome teen proud of his unquenchable appetite for older men takes up with a charming, flirtatious soul he meets at a local nursing home in Bruce LaBruce’s romantic paean to the beauty of all stages of life.
Age of Consent
New York Premiere
Q&A with Charles Lum and Todd Verow
The history of the HOIST, London’s first and only gay sex fetish bar, follows the cultural evolution of gay life and sex in modern London through AIDS, gentrification, and the ongoing political struggle to decriminalize homosexual activity in the UK.
Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy
New York Premiere
Q&A with Andrea James and Alec Mapa
In his hilarious new performance film, “America’s Gaysian Sweetheart” takes his audience on a roller-coaster ride through the challenges and occasional triumphs of becoming a daddy. Contains adult language and catastrophic waffles.
Blackbird
New York Premiere
Q&A with Patrik-Ian Polk
A high-school senior (newcomer Julian Walker) and his band of queer friends fight for a life outside the constrictions of their small Southern Baptist town. Co-starring Mo’Nique and Isaiah Washington as his conflicted parents.
Boys (NewFest)
New York Premiere
A teenager dealing with family troubles falls for his outgoing and engaging track teammate over the course of a summer spent running, swimming, and stealing kisses in the forest.
The Circle
New York Premiere
A Teddy Award winner at the Berlin Film Festival, <em>The Circle captures an extraordinary romance between a singer and a schoolteacher, set against the backdrop of Switzerland’s thriving post-WWII underground gay movement.
Dual
New York Premiere
When a free-spirited Danish woman gets stuck in Slovenia overnight, she asks a young lesbian minivan driver to show her around Ljubljana. Romantic feelings build between them and they hatch a plan to run away together
52 Tuesdays
New York Premiere
Sixteen-year-old Billie moves in with her father while her mother transitions from female to male. The two meet every Tuesday during their year apart and Billie covertly explores her own identity and sexuality.
The Foxy Merkins
Q&A with Madeleine Olnek and Lisa Haas
A down-on-her-luck lesbian hooker-in-training and a self-assured female grifter who’s a pro at picking up women hit the streets together in this riff on iconic male-hustler films from the director of Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same.
Hustle (With My Muscle)
From transgender icon Bambi Lake to famed Parisian cat burglar Irma Vep (by way of Zackary Drucker), sweaty boys in jockstraps and grungy hipsters playing phallic drinking games to good ol’ Lily Tomlin, “Hustle (With My Muscle)” eyes life in the fast, cheap, and out-of-control lane.
I Am Happiness on Earth
New York Premiere
Julián Hernández, one of Mexico’s premier queer filmmakers (Raging Sun, Raging Sky), returns with this tale of a film director struggling with the line between his sexually charged reality and equally arousing cinematic creations.
Jamie Marks Is Dead
New York Premiere
Q&A with Carter Smith
The ghost of a bullied teenager (Noah Silver) appears to a straitlaced track star (Cameron Monaghan), who becomes caught between two worlds in this supernatural and romantic Sundance gem that also features Judy Greer and Liv Tyler.
Lilting
New York Premiere
The sudden death of a young London man leaves his Chinese Cambodian mother and his boyfriend profoundly grieving. The two attempt to reach across a chasm of misunderstanding through their memories of the departed in this Sundance award-winning debut.
Lyle
New York Premiere
Q&A with Stewart Thorndike
Gaby Hoffmann plays a pregnant lesbian confronted by an unspeakable evil, bringing out a primal terror that’s difficult to shake, in this sinister ode to Rosemary’s Baby full of dark humor and razor-sharp camerawork.
NewFest Shorts Program 1
From love in the barrio to Pride Day in Naples, from a gay rapper in New Jersey to a German-Bolivian Mennonite, this program of shorts explores the diversity of LGBT lives.
NewFest Shorts Program 2
The breadth of the LGBT experience is further revealed through the stories of a 92-year-old transgendered WWII vet, a widowed Swedish author, a teenage lesbian in the American South, and more.
The Third One
New York Premiere
Q&A with Rodrigo Guerrero
An attractive older couple convinces a flirtatious young man to come over for dinner in this celebration of the awkwardness and euphoria of a one-night stand gone right that culminates in an explicit yet playful 10-minute threesome.
Tiger Orange
New York Premiere
Q&A with Wade Gasque, Mark Stano and Frankie Valenti
Two estranged gay brothers—one a closeted introvert, the other an out-and-proud hunk— attempt to make amends in this charming small-town drama and blunt, playful meditation on queer sibling rivalry.
The Way He Looks
New York Premiere
Q&A with Daniel Ribeiro
Set to the bouncy beats of Belle and Sebastian, this euphoric, sun-kissed coming-of-age fable about a blind teenager and his handsome and smooth-talking friend dances entirely to its own tune (and won multiple awards at the Berlin Film Festival).
We Came to Sweat: The Legend of Starlite
World Premiere
Q&A with Kate Kunath and Sasha Wortzel
When Brooklyn’s oldest black gay bar, the Starlite Lounge, is faced with eviction, the community decides to fight back against gentrification to save this pre-Stonewall safe haven.
What It Was
New York Premiere
Q&A with Daniel Armando and Arlene Chico-Lugo
A successful Latina actress whose life is in collapse returns to New York in a fog and tumbles through a series of intense, complex connections with a sexy, butch body artist, a young college student, and a former girlfriend.
