A Friend of Dorothy (2025)
Dorothy is a lonely widow whose body is failing, but her mind remains as bright as ever. When 17-year-old JJ accidentally kicks his football into her garden, he upends Dorothy's daily routine of pills, prunes, and crosswords, and an unlikely friendship blossoms. Despite being worlds apart in every way, the two come to find they have more in common than they could ever imagine.
and that’s a wrap on my #NewFest37 Journey…
…full list of everything i was able to see witb ratings…
https://letterboxd.com/filmfreak75/list/2025-newfest/detail/ #NewFest
2025 NewFest
A list of 34 films compiled on Letterboxd, including American Problems, Trans Solutions (2025), Baba I'm Fine (2025), Brief Somebodies (2025), Clean Slate (2025) and Dandelion (2025).
#WeAreFaheemKarun, one of
the best selections from
#NewFest37 i’ve seen, shows the often told tale of love obstructed by borders, but this time for a region not normally discussed
#NewFest https://mastodon.social/@filmfreak75/115397493074466805 
We Are Faheem & Karun (2024)
Karun, a young security officer from South India, is stationed in Gurez, a remote village in Kashmir. One day, a charming man named Faheem comes to the check post and meets Karun. This marks the beginning of a romance, which, from the outset, is doomed – Faheem, bound by the societal taboos surrounding homosexuality in the context of his religion, cannot live openly, while Karun, due to the constraints of his profession, must also hide his true self. The film explores the intersection of love, identity, and repression in a region steeped in conflict.
the end credits to
#NewFest37 selection
#SameAgain say “this film
is an improvisation” and i think it’s one in need of an editor
#NewFesthttps://mastodon.social/@filmfreak75/115396541780849422
Same, Again (2025)
A theater group made up of various actresses and a male director are rehearsing a play when several cases of invisible abuse and homophobia begin to occur. The women begin to talk to each other and discover that they all have a painful story to tell.
Only Good Things (2025)
Catalão, Brazil, 1984. The rural region of Batalha dos Neves is made up of large crop pastures, a few farms and divided in half by the São Marcos River. Antonio lives alone and isolated taking care of his small farm until the day he encounters Marcelo, a lonely motorcycler who suffers an accident crossing the region. Antonio takes care of Marcelo’s wounds. The two fall in love and live a story that transforms, destabilizes, and causes ruptures in each of them.
#NightInWestTexas from
#NewFest37 is yet another prime example of how broken the justice system is when it comes to false confessions
#NewFest https://mastodon.social/@filmfreak75/115392378449614812 
Night in West Texas (2025)
Forty years after a gay Apache man is framed for the brutal murder of a closeted Catholic priest, a police chief uncovers long-buried evidence that shakes up the small, oil-rich West Texas town that imprisoned him.
Sean C.
