New Hope Film Festival 2026

The New Hope Film Festival is an annual October film event that includes significant LGBTQ+ programming alongside its broader independent film programme. The festival takes place in New Hope's historic venues and reflects the town's long-standing relationship with the arts — the New Hope art colony tradition of the early twentieth century established a pattern of cultural engagement that the film festival continues. The LGBTQ+ programming draws films and filmmakers from across the independent queer cinema world, and the New Hope setting — a town where the gay community has been an integral part of cultural life for six decades — gives the screenings a context and community that larger film festivals in more generic urban settings cannot replicate.