New Farm Queer Film Festival 2023

Overview

In 2022, New Farm Cinemas gave Brisbanites another excuse to head to the movies: the first-ever New Farm Queer Film Festival. Celebrating LGBTQIA+ filmmaking on Brunswick Street, the event unsurprisingly proved a hit. So, it's returning in 2023 for a 12-day run from Thursday, September 21–Monday, October 2.

Queer classics and the latest festival fare sit side by side on this event's lineup, as its bookending picks make plain. 2023's fest opens with Passages, which hails from Love Is Strange's Ira Sachs, dives into a love triangle, and stars Franz Rogowski (Great Freedom), Adèle Exarchopoulos (The Five Devils) and Ben Whishaw (Women Talking). Then, when NFQFF comes to a close, it'll do so with the one and only John Waters' Pink Flamingos.

In-between, movie lovers can look forward to Afire, a Berlinale Silver Bear-winner for Undine and Transit's Christian Petzold; Blue Jean, a four-time British Independent Film Award-winner about a lesbian teacher in Thatcher's England; and Beau Travail, Claire Denis' (Stars at Noon) 1999 standout.

Other highlights include the Australian premiere of the 1987-set Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, more German cinema with both Bones and Names and Drifter, 60s Japanese effort Funeral Parade of Roses and Denis Côté's (Ghost Town Anthology) That Kind of Summer.

On the homegrown front, NFQFF will also feature The Winner Takes It All and Single, Out — one a comedy about a woman who finds out that her husband is cheating, the other about a life-changing first sexual encounter (and the latter with the cast and crew doing an introduction).