It's almost time for NewFest, New York's 28th annual LGBT film festival. Running October 20 to 25, NewFest includes more than 100 features, documentaries and shorts shining a spotlight on the LGBT experience around the world.

"This year's program is NewFest's largest and most diverse group of films yet," executive director Robert Kushner tells NewNowNext. "The slate includes powerful docs and features, and one of the most substantial selections of international films since the festival began."

Global fare includes India's Angry Indian Goddesses, Poland's Baby Bump and the sexually explicit Theo & Hugo from France.

In Germany's Where Are You Going, Habibi? college student Ibo (Cem Alkan) must come to terms with the feelings he has for Alexander (Martin Walde), a straight wrestler with a penchant for crime.

The opening night screening is the North American premiere of Great Britain's The Pass, which sees Looking's Russell Tovey as a closeted soccer player grappling with both fame and his sexuality. (Tovey starred in John Donnelly's play of the same name in 2014.)

Another highlight is the landmark restored screening of 1919's Different from the Others (Anders als die Andern): The oldest LGBT film in existence, it tells the tale of a gay pianist who falls for a male student, causing scandal.

It was co-written by pioneering sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, but banned by censors and burned by the Nazis. The beautifully restored 35mm version will screen with live musical accompaniment.

In Tim Kirkman's Lazy Eye, ex-lovers reconnect one weekend in the desert after 15 years apart. Regrets and desires bubble to the surface as the two men try to figure out if they have a future together.

Reconnection is also a theme in So Yong Kim’s Lovesong, which closes the festival: Riley Keough and Jena Malone star as two 20something women with an intense, undefinable bond.

Sarah (Keough) is a young married mother with a distant husband and a lively young daughter, while Mindy (Malone) is the wild-child friend who joins her on a road trip.

On the documentary front, NewFest will screen Holler if Ya Hear Me, about being gay in the African-American church, Scrum, a profile of out gay rugby players, The Trans List, a look at Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' portraits of notable transgender personalities, and Last Men Standing, which spotlights with a group of long-term HIV survivors who never expected to reach their golden years.

Get tickets and schedule information about the 28th annual NewFest here.