Five Star Cinemas are proud to announce the program for the 4th annual New Farm Queer Film Festival (NFQFF). Running from October 2nd – 12th at Brisbane’s New Farm Cinemas, the festival will present premiere screenings of award-winning titles from Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and Locarno, and brand-new restorations.
The festival will open with the QLD Premiere of Twinless, an audience award winner at Sundance. Highlights presented in the festival’s Spotlight strand include The Little Sister (Cannes – Best Actress winner), Dreams/Sex/Love (thematic ‘Oslo trilogy’, Dreams won Best Film at Berlin) and Nineteen (produced by Luca Guadagnino). This edition of the festival will also introduce the After Dark festival strand, presenting audiences three bold and daring films, best viewed late; Baby, the campy, Sundance Midnight favourite Dead Lover, and a rare screening of Christophe Honoré’s transgressive and divisive Ma mère.
The Offical Selection of this year’s festival includes new works featured at Berlin, SXSW & Locarno, with a spotlight on a quirky pair of films from Georgia (Gondola and Holy Electricity), a thematic trilogy of Oslo-set dramas (Sex), a contemporary non-binary feature from the US (Outerlands), a Catholic lesbian romance from Slovenia (Little Trouble Girls), and a restored classic of 90s Australian indie (Love and Other Catastrophes).
And closing out the festival this year is the Queensland Premiere of another Sundance success, Plainclothes – Carmen Emmi‘s aesthetically striking, compelling drama starring Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey about an undercover police officer who falls for a man he’s been tasked with arresting for indecency.
For more information about the festival, session times and titles, head to the official site here.
