NewFest, home to the celebrated LGBTQ+ film festival, announced the full lineup for their third annual NewFest Pride Summer Film Series. The event kicks off LGBTQ+ Pride Month from June 1 – 5, 2023 in New York, and will feature a mix of exclusive in-person premieres/panels, virtual screenings, and social events.
The 25th Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) set to take place June 14-18, 2023, revealed its lineup of narrative, documentary, and short films and honorees.
Here is the official trailer for feature documentary Chasing Chasing Amy, which will have its world premiere at Tribeca Festival 2023.
Directed by Israeli filmmaker Idan Haguel, Concerned Citizen is described as a dark comedy about gentrification in a Tel Aviv neighborhood. Starring in the film are Shlomi Bertonov and Ariel Wolf.
Coming to VOD soon are new indie films ranging from horror films, to documentary and an LGBT drama. Indie films include Country of Hotels, Makeup, Exorcism in Utero, Sapiosexual, Aliens Uncovered: Origins, Out and About, Killer Kites, Famous, Pillow Party Massacre, Cracked, Crescent Gang, South Beach Shark Club, Velvet Jesus, Peppergrass and Nightmare Fuel.
Strand Releasing revealed the official trailer for Will-o’-the-Wisp (Fogo-Fátuo), a Portuguese musical fantasy film starring Mauro Costa as Alfredo, the crown prince of Portugal who becomes a volunteer fireman and falls for a fellow fireman.
Set to world premiere at 2023 Cannes Film Festival, here is the first official trailer for Strange Way of Life, Pedro Almodóvar’s short film, a queer western drama starring Ethan Hawke as Sheriff Jake and Pedro Pascal as cowboy Silva.
Factory25 shared the official trailer for Queens of the Qing Dynasty, the Canadian independent film starring Sarah Walker as a teenager who has been hospitalized following a suicide attempt, and Ziyin Zheng as a genderqueer volunteer assigned to watch her in the hospital.
Inspired in part by filmmaker Sarah Watts’ own upbringing in a Jehovah’s Witness community, the Canadian drama film You Can Live Forever stars Anwen O’Driscoll as a teenager sent to live with her aunt in a devoutly religious Jehovah’s Witness, and develops a relationship with another young woman in the community.
Magnolia Pictures revealed the official trailer for Blue Jean, the award-winning British drama starring Rosy McEwen as Jean, a closeted gay teacher in London in 1988. Also starring in the film are Kerrie Hayes, Lucy Halliday, Lydia Page, Stacy Abalogun, Amy Booth-Steele, Aoife Kennan, Scott Turnbull, Farrah Cave, Lainey Shaw, Izzy Neish and Becky Lindsay.
Dark Sky Pictures revealed the official trailer for El Houb – The Love, a drama starring Fahd Larhzaoui as a man who come to terms with his own feelings and finally comes out to his family.
Transgender actress Trace Lysette stars in Monica as a woman who returns home to the Midwest to care for her dying mother whom she hasn’t seen in years.