NewFest 2018: 8 Must-See Movies That Offer a Look at the Queer Latinx Experience

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, this year’s NewFest promises to be a full-blown queer affair. Its more than 140 films, panels and parties attract over 12,000 attendees from around the globe every October, making this New York City fest showcases the year’s best LGBTQ film and media. With films about Montgomery Clift and Robert Mapplethorpe, docs about lesbian filmmaker pioneers and dramas about gay conversion therapy, as well as short programs that run the entire LGBTQ gamut, there is no better place to see the full breadth of the queer experience up on the big screen.

As usual, foreign fare is well-represented. In addition to screening Kenya’s controversial (and banned!) tender romance film Rafiki, the fest will be showing, among others, a Colombian lesbian drama, an Ecuadorian film about a strained father-son relationship, and even a horror flick set in Brooklyn featuring a bevy of late-night stars (including Tejana queen Horrorchata!). We’ve rounded all the Latinx ones you should keep an eye out for below.

NewFest’s 30th Anniversary runs October 24-30, 2018