New Farm Queer Film Festival
Opening Night
Thursday 21 September, 6:30pm
Passages
USA · 2023 · 92 min
Director: Ira Sachs
Tickets include a glass of sparkling on arrival. Drinks & Photos on the Black Carpet at 6.30pm, introduction & screening at 7pm.
In contemporary Paris, German filmmaker Tomas embraces his sexuality through a torrid love affair with a young woman named Agathe, an impulse that blurs the lines that define his relationship with his husband, Martin. When Martin begins an extramarital affair of his own, he successfully gains back his husband’s attention while simultaneously unearthing Tomas’ jealousy. Grappling with contradicting emotions, Tomas must either embrace the confines of his marriage or come to terms with the relationship having run its course.
Closing Night
Monday 2 October, 6:30pm
Pink Flamingos
USA · 1972 · 92 min
Director: John Waters
Join us for NFQFF’s Black Carpet Closing Night Gala Screening. Drinks on arrival at 6:30pm for a 7pm introduction & film screening.
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as “The Filthiest Person Alive”.
Show Times
Friday 22 September
6:30pm | Blue Jean
- UK · 2022 · 97 min
- Director: Georgia Oakley
This searing British indie from first time filmmaker Georgia Oakley is near universally acclaimed, winning four British Independent Film Awards including Best Lead Performance.
Jean, a PE teacher, is forced to live a double life. When a new student arrives and threatens to expose her sexuality, Jean is pushed to extreme lengths to keep her job and her integrity.
8:30pm | Funeral Parade of Roses
- Japan · 1969 · 105 min
- Director: Toshio Matsumoto
A celebration of youth and subcultures, a condemnation of intolerance, and a one-of-kind cinematic experience, Funeral Parade of Roses is a kaleidoscopic masterpiece and one of the most intoxicating films of the 60s.
Set in the underground gay culture of 1960s Tokyo, a loose adaptation of Oedipus Rex in which a gay son kills his mother and sleeps with his father.
Saturday 23 September
4:30pm | Since the Last Time We Met
- Argentina · 2023 · 81 min
- Director: Matías De Leis Correa
Handsome and stylish Victor is reunited by chance with David, his first love, fifteen years after the last time they saw each other. This reunion revives the clandestine love they had when they were younger.
6:30pm | Afire
- Germany · 2023 · 102 min
- Director: Christian Petzold
The new film from Germany’s Christian Petzold (Phoenix, Transit) continues his prize-winning streak at the Berlinale with a Silver Bear winning film where a seaside vacation takes an unexpected turn when Leon and Felix show up at Felix’s family’s holiday home to discover Nadja, a mysterious woman, already there. As an ever-encroaching forest fire threatens their well-being, relationships are tested and romances are kindled.
8:30pm | Horseplay
- Argentina · 2022 · 102 min
- Director: Marco Berger
Argentinean auteur Marco Berger (The Blonde One, Taekwondo) returns with an erotic and tense drama. In the heat of the summer, Andy leaves the city in order to spend some time at a luxury villa with his best friends. As they party and goof around, their initial consensual horseplay reveals that they each have different personal boundaries.
Sunday 24 September
4:30pm | Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
- USA · 2022 · 96 min
- Director: Aitch Alberto
Based on the coming-of-age young adult novel by American author Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Set in El Paso, Texas in 1987, the film follows two Mexican-American teenagers, Aristotle “Ari” Mendoza and Dante Quintana, their friendship, and their struggles with racial and ethnic identity, sexuality, and family relationships.
7pm | The Winner Takes It All
- Australia · 2023 · 78 min
- Director: James Demitri
Kiki, a wealthy socialite, confides in her best friend Maxine that her husband is cheating on her, and is in danger of losing her rather large fortune. The two women make a deal to uncover the truth, but not all is as it seems. Throw in a gigolo, a pornstar and lashings of camp and you are in for the funniest, stupidest, campest ride of your life.
Monday 25 September
6:30pm | Beau Travail
- France · 1999 · 92 min
- Director: Claire Denis
Considered to be a staple of international cinema, Claire Denis’ spellbinding tale of lust and desire screens in restored 4k.Foreign Legion officer, Galoup, recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, but the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup’s mind.
8:30pm | Blue Jean
- UK · 2022 · 97 min
- Director: Georgia Oakley
This searing British indie from first time filmmaker Georgia Oakley is near universally acclaimed, winning four British Independent Film Awards including Best Lead Performance.
Jean, a PE teacher, is forced to live a double life. When a new student arrives and threatens to expose her sexuality, Jean is pushed to extreme lengths to keep her job and her integrity.
Tuesday 26 September
4:30pm | Afire
- Germany · 2023 · 102 min
- Director: Christian Petzold
The new film from Germany’s Christian Petzold (Phoenix, Transit) continues his prize-winning streak at the Berlinale with a Silver Bear winning film where a seaside vacation takes an unexpected turn when Leon and Felix show up at Felix’s family’s holiday home to discover Nadja, a mysterious woman, already there. As an ever-encroaching forest fire threatens their well-being, relationships are tested and romances are kindled.
6:30pm | That Kind of Summer
- Canada · 2022 · 137 min
- Director: Denis Côté
Three “hypersexual” women are invited to spend 26 days in a quiet rest home to enable a frank exploration of different experiences, forms, and extremes of desire. Under the detached supervision of a therapist and a considerate social worker, the group attempts to maintain a delicate balance.
Québécois arthouse filmmaker and documentarian Denis Côté’s Berlin competition title is a smart and observational drama about the sexual conformity of a trio of women in French Canada.
Wednesday 27 September
8:30pm | The Winner Takes It All
- Australia · 2023 · 78 min
- Director: James Demitri
Kiki, a wealthy socialite, confides in her best friend Maxine that her husband is cheating on her, and is in danger of losing her rather large fortune. The two women make a deal to uncover the truth, but not all is as it seems. Throw in a gigolo, a pornstar and lashings of camp and you are in for the funniest, stupidest, campest ride of your life.
Thursday 28 September
7pm | Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
- USA · 2022 · 96 min
- Director: Aitch Alberto
Based on the coming-of-age young adult novel by American author Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Set in El Paso, Texas in 1987, the film follows two Mexican-American teenagers, Aristotle “Ari” Mendoza and Dante Quintana, their friendship, and their struggles with racial and ethnic identity, sexuality, and family relationships.
Dress-Up Screening
9pm | Captain Faggotron Saves the Universe
- Germany · 2023 · 75 min
- Director: Harvey Rabbit
A young priest is intent on denying his homosexuality, and he’s not doing a very good job. Meanwhile, his alien ex-lover is plotting to turn the Earth into a homosexual planet during a cosmic event and Captain Faggotron is caught in the middle. Clashing ideologies culminate in an orgy of gay demons and a love that no longer has to hide.
Friday 29 September
7pm | Drifter
- Germany · 2023 · 79 min
- Director: Hannes Hirsch
Moritz follows a boyfriend to Berlin and is soon abandoned by him. Alone in the big city, he embarks on a journey through a wide range of queer experience. Only through a new circle of queer friends does he develop his own ideas of sexuality and masculinity, leading him to a clearer self-identity.
9pm | That Kind of Summer
- Canada · 2022 · 137 min
- Director: Denis Côté
Three “hypersexual” women are invited to spend 26 days in a quiet rest home to enable a frank exploration of different experiences, forms, and extremes of desire. Under the detached supervision of a therapist and a considerate social worker, the group attempts to maintain a delicate balance.
Québécois arthouse filmmaker and documentarian Denis Côté’s Berlin competition title is a smart and observational drama about the sexual conformity of a trio of women in French Canada.
Saturday 30 September
12:30pm | Afire
- Germany · 2023 · 102 min
- Director: Christian Petzold
The new film from Germany’s Christian Petzold (Phoenix, Transit) continues his prize-winning streak at the Berlinale with a Silver Bear winning film where a seaside vacation takes an unexpected turn when Leon and Felix show up at Felix’s family’s holiday home to discover Nadja, a mysterious woman, already there. As an ever-encroaching forest fire threatens their well-being, relationships are tested and romances are kindled.
2:45pm | Lie With Me
- France · 2022 · 98 min
- Director: Olivier Peyon
An author returns to his hometown of Cognac for the first time in 35 years to help promote a distillery. Once there, he meets his first love’s son, Lucas. Memories come rushing back to him: irrepressible attraction, bodies becoming one in the heat of desire, a passion that can never be revealed… His first love’s name was Thomas. They were 17.
5pm | Bones and Names
- Germany · 2023 · 104 min
- Director: Fabian Stumm
Bones and Names is actor Fabian Stumm’s directorial and screenplay feature-length debut. Unfolding in humorous and tender sequences that take place in demarcated, characteristic settings (bedroom, supermarket and rehearsal room), his film is an intelligent and entertaining reflection on relationships.
7:15pm | Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
- USA · 2022 · 96 min
- Director: Aitch Alberto
Based on the coming-of-age young adult novel by American author Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Set in El Paso, Texas in 1987, the film follows two Mexican-American teenagers, Aristotle “Ari” Mendoza and Dante Quintana, their friendship, and their struggles with racial and ethnic identity, sexuality, and family relationships.
Sunday 1 October
3:15pm | Give Me Pity!
- USA · 2022 · 80 min
- Director: Ethan Coen
Sophie von Haselberg – the spitting image of her mother, Bette Midler, shines bright in this lurid picture of stardom undone directed by Amanda Kramer (Please Baby Please! QFF 2022).
Sissy St. Claire graces the small screen for her first ever television special, an evening full of music and laughter, glamour and entertainment! But Sissy’s live event quickly begins to curdle into a psychedelic nightmare of vanity, insecurity and delusional ambition, provoked by the glowering presence of a mysterious masked man.
5pm | Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
- USA · 2022 · 96 min
- Director: Aitch Alberto
Based on the coming-of-age young adult novel by American author Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Set in El Paso, Texas in 1987, the film follows two Mexican-American teenagers, Aristotle “Ari” Mendoza and Dante Quintana, their friendship, and their struggles with racial and ethnic identity, sexuality, and family relationships.
7pm | Single, Out
- Australia · 2022 · 120 min
- Director: Lee Galea
When Adam has his first sexual experience his life is changed forever. He has to work and pursue his art, as well as coming to terms with being out to his friends and family. He discovers growing up that fast is a balancing act of trying to keep everyone else happy as well as being true to himself. Being single was easy. Being out is hard.
Monday 2 October
12:30pm | Blue Jean
- UK · 2022 · 97 min
- Director: Georgia Oakley
This searing British indie from first time filmmaker Georgia Oakley is near universally acclaimed, winning four British Independent Film Awards including Best Lead Performance.
Jean, a PE teacher, is forced to live a double life. When a new student arrives and threatens to expose her sexuality, Jean is pushed to extreme lengths to keep her job and her integrity.