A staple festival in Brisbane’s ever growing film scene, the New Farm Queer Film Festival goes from strength to strength after it’s wildly successful previous years, delivering in 2024, the biggest line up of queer films from all over the world, and highlighting even more homegrown LGBTQIA+ stories than any other film festival in the country!
With 19 films announced over it’s 10 day run between October 3 – 13, NFQFF features Australian and Queensland premieres of global festival hits including Elliot Page’s trans-drama CLOSE TO YOU; the Silver Bear Jury Prize winner for cinematography at the Berlin Film Festival THE DEVIL’S BATH; and opening the festival at the Black Carpet premiere is the Georgian film CROSSING.
Highlights of the festival also include 4K restorations of Gregg Araki’s TEENAGE APOCALYPSE TRILOGY and French filmmaker Francois Ozon’s transgressive first three films, also newly restored, along with a spotlight feature of Alice Maio Mackay, who’s Australian trans-centric films T-BLOCKERS and SATANIC PANIC both will have their Queensland premieres at the festival. And the much talked about THE PEOPLE’S JOKER from Vera Drew will be showing!
With a closing night film to still be announced, there is plenty to look forward to at this years New Farm Queer Film Festival! For more information on tickets and the program, head to the website here. New Farm Queer Film Festival will be held at New Farm Cinemas between October 3 – 13.
Heretic is a psychological horror film starring Hugh Grant as Mr. Reed, who entraps two Mormon missionaries, Sister Barnes and Sister Paxton, in his eerie home. The film explores themes of faith and belief, delivering unsettling twists. While it falters in depth, Grant’s performance and cinematography maintain viewer intrigue throughout.
Nick is a Brisbane-based film/TV reviewer. He gained his following starting with his 60 second video reviews of all the latest releases on Instagram (@nicksflicksfix), before launching a monthly podcast with Peter Gray called Monthly Movie Marathon. Nick contributes to Novastream with interviews and reviews for the latest blockbusters.