Grouped by programme and missing films noted in each group. Will be updated when available.
Programme 1: AVANT QUEER
Playlist Duration: 01:40:52 | 101 mins
These bold films offer inventive visions that expand the possibilities of cinema while illuminating the spectrum of queer experience. Through experimental narratives, striking aesthetics, and complex queer characters, each work pushes the medium forward with daring originality. Themes of family, connection, and transformation are woven throughout, showing how emotion and innovation can converge to reimagine both storytelling and queer life.
Programme 2: QUEER TEEN POWER
Playlist duration: 01:35:18 | 96 mins
Now in its eighth year, NewFest is thrilled to collaborate with NYC’s Department of Education and GLAAD on this uplifting shorts program curated for…
Grouped by programme and missing films noted in each group. Will be updated when available.
Programme 1: AVANT QUEER
Playlist Duration: 01:40:52 | 101 mins
These bold films offer inventive visions that expand the possibilities of cinema while illuminating the spectrum of queer experience. Through experimental narratives, striking aesthetics, and complex queer characters, each work pushes the medium forward with daring originality. Themes of family, connection, and transformation are woven throughout, showing how emotion and innovation can converge to reimagine both storytelling and queer life.
Programme 2: QUEER TEEN POWER
Playlist duration: 01:35:18 | 96 mins
Now in its eighth year, NewFest is thrilled to collaborate with NYC’s Department of Education and GLAAD on this uplifting shorts program curated for LGBTQ+ teens. These upbeat, affirming films — from intergenerational bonds to magical drag foxes — give queer youth the chance to see themselves on screen and feel inspired to tell their own stories.
Programme 3: FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD
Playlist duration: 01:36:50 | 99 mins
Break bread with us at our annual Brooklyn Brunch as we share stories of how food — messy or magical — shapes our lives. From unexpected dinner guests to home-cooked comfort, absurd family shenanigans, mysterious meal pals, and more, this nourishing, chaotic collection proves we are what we eat. And this time, we’re really cooking.
Missing from list:
Coney Island Baby
Dir. Fernando Lopez, 7 min, USA
and Meal Pal
Dir. Chen Xie, 11 min, China/USA
Programme 4: IF YOU WANNA BE MY LOVERBOY
Playlist duration: 01:43:54 | 104 mins
Get ready, boys. Sexual and romantic desire between men fuels this shorts program, capturing the thrill, ecstasy, and heartbreak of wanting. From bathhouse shadows and Fire Island feuds to forbidden hookups, interstellar love, and erotic rituals, these films revel in fantasy, taboo, and longing.
Programme 5: IN YOUR FACE!
Playlist duration: 01:31:51 | 92 mins
Screw respectability. These shorts are outrageous, loud, and unapologetically over the top. Brimming with style, big ideas, and even bigger characters, they’re impossible to ignore: bright-colored neo-noirs, surreal nightmares, stomach-turning comedies, and queer visions that defy categorization. They’re here, they’re queer — and unforgettable.
Programme 6: HERE COME THE DOLLS
Playlist Duration: 01:27:54 | 88 mins
An audacious shorts program celebrating the vision and brilliance of trans women and those who love them. From vengeful resurrections to satanic rituals, shoplifters waging war on capitalism to secret cults, shadow selves to harrowing births, these genre-defying films crown the Dolls as auteurs, protagonists, dreamers, and disruptors.
Programme 7: ALL ABOUT THE T
Playlist duration: 01:34:08 | 93 mins
A trans-led, nonconforming program of bold, unfiltered short films — original, smart, and brilliantly made. Rooted in community, resistance, and care, these radical works center self-determination beyond mere survival. Dissident bodies come together to claim space, embrace each other, and create futures. ALL ABOUT THE T means no compromise.
Missing:
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo): Radical Transparency
Dir. Drew de Pinto, 9 min, USA
and Moonbeams
Dir. Elo Santa Maria, 15 min, USA
Programme 8: DYKE NYTE
Playlist Duration: 01:19:34 | 80 mins
Dyke drama and lesbian longing abound in this eclectic program of eight sapphic shorts — from chaotic meet-cutes at Riis Beach to a newly out woman’s double date panic, a couple’s painting debate, and a fearless barrel racer’s return to love.
Programme 9: LAUGH RIOT
Playlist duration: 01:24:34 | 85 mins
From hilarious romps to sharp satire, this collection of comedies will have you laughing through the toughest times. A botched robbery, a shooting range gone wrong, family chaos, and even gay Jesus himself appear in films that prove humor thrives in the wildest situations.
Programme 10: QUEER REBELLION
Playlist duration: 79 mins
From ACT UP’s historic protests to today’s Black trans leadership, these shorts spotlight queer defiance across decades and identities. Whether through street activism, Black trans euphoria, or experimental visions of liberation, THE QUEER REBELLION celebrates community power, radical imagination, and the refusal to be erased.
Missing: Echoes: The B Side
Dir. Mars Storm Rucker, 18 min, USA
