NewFest Sets 2026 ‘Queering the Canon’ Screening Series With ‘Southern Comfort,’ ‘Waiting for Guffman’ | Exclusive

NewFest and Bam have set the theme and lineup for the sixth edition of their annual retrospective screening series, “Queering the Canon,” TheWrap can exclusively reveal.

This year’s installment, titled “Queering the Canon: We’re Out Here,” will run March 26-29 in New York and spotlight stories of LGBTQ life in small towns, suburbs and rural communities around the world. The program includes anniversaries, restorations, 35mm presentations and in-person Q&As with filmmakers and special guests, among them a 25th anniversary screening of “Southern Comfort” and talkback with director Kate Davis and a 30th anniversary 35mm screening of Christopher Guest’s “Waiting for Guffman,” starring the late Catherine O’Hara.