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“Relationship woes and career crises converge in this sweet story about a millennial would-be writer who moves in with his open-hearted – and often very-direct – grandparents. As the colorful characters resist and reconcile their own intergenerational dynamics and stage in life, @bookendsmovie opens its arms to become the cinematic equivalent of a warm hug.” –@nickmccarthys (Director of Programming)⁠
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See the New York Premiere of BOOKENDS at @newfest Pride Saturday, May 30 at 4pm followed by a Q&A and stream it nationwide May 28 - June 1, 2026, on @newfest’s virtual platform. Tickets are going fast at newfest.org ❤️

“Well… it’s a love story.”

See the New York Premiere of @bookendsmovie at @newfest Pride Saturday, May 30 at 4pm ❤️

Not in New York? No problem. Stream BOOKENDS nationwide May 28 - June 1, 2026, on @newfest’s virtual platform. Tickets at newfest.org

🇺🇸Miami > 🇮🇹Torino > 🇮🇹Venezia > 🇩🇪Freiburg

A huge thanks for the amazing reception of BOOKENDS (subtitled!)

@miamifilm
@loversff
@schwule_filmwoche_freiburg
@bookendsmovie

🇺🇸Miami > 🇮🇹Torino > 🇮🇹Venezia > 🇩🇪Freiburg

A huge thanks for the amazing reception of BOOKENDS (subtitled!)

@miamifilm
@loversff
@schwule_filmwoche_freiburg
@bookendsmovie

🇺🇸Miami > 🇮🇹Torino > 🇮🇹Venezia > 🇩🇪Freiburg

A huge thanks for the amazing reception of BOOKENDS (subtitled!)

@miamifilm
@loversff
@schwule_filmwoche_freiburg
@bookendsmovie

🇺🇸Miami > 🇮🇹Torino > 🇮🇹Venezia > 🇩🇪Freiburg

A huge thanks for the amazing reception of BOOKENDS (subtitled!)

@miamifilm
@loversff
@schwule_filmwoche_freiburg
@bookendsmovie

🇺🇸Miami > 🇮🇹Torino > 🇮🇹Venezia > 🇩🇪Freiburg

A huge thanks for the amazing reception of BOOKENDS (subtitled!)

@miamifilm
@loversff
@schwule_filmwoche_freiburg
@bookendsmovie

🇺🇸Miami > 🇮🇹Torino > 🇮🇹Venezia > 🇩🇪Freiburg

A huge thanks for the amazing reception of BOOKENDS (subtitled!)

@miamifilm
@loversff
@schwule_filmwoche_freiburg
@bookendsmovie

🇺🇸Miami > 🇮🇹Torino > 🇮🇹Venezia > 🇩🇪Freiburg

A huge thanks for the amazing reception of BOOKENDS (subtitled!)

@miamifilm
@loversff
@schwule_filmwoche_freiburg
@bookendsmovie

🇺🇸Miami > 🇮🇹Torino > 🇮🇹Venezia > 🇩🇪Freiburg

A huge thanks for the amazing reception of BOOKENDS (subtitled!)

@miamifilm
@loversff
@schwule_filmwoche_freiburg
@bookendsmovie

🇺🇸Miami > 🇮🇹Torino > 🇮🇹Venezia > 🇩🇪Freiburg

A huge thanks for the amazing reception of BOOKENDS (subtitled!)

@miamifilm
@loversff
@schwule_filmwoche_freiburg
@bookendsmovie

🇺🇸Miami > 🇮🇹Torino > 🇮🇹Venezia > 🇩🇪Freiburg

A huge thanks for the amazing reception of BOOKENDS (subtitled!)

@miamifilm
@loversff
@schwule_filmwoche_freiburg
@bookendsmovie

🇺🇸Miami > 🇮🇹Torino > 🇮🇹Venezia > 🇩🇪Freiburg

A huge thanks for the amazing reception of BOOKENDS (subtitled!)

@miamifilm
@loversff
@schwule_filmwoche_freiburg
@bookendsmovie

🇺🇸Miami > 🇮🇹Torino > 🇮🇹Venezia > 🇩🇪Freiburg

A huge thanks for the amazing reception of BOOKENDS (subtitled!)

@miamifilm
@loversff
@schwule_filmwoche_freiburg
@bookendsmovie

🇺🇸Miami > 🇮🇹Torino > 🇮🇹Venezia > 🇩🇪Freiburg

A huge thanks for the amazing reception of BOOKENDS (subtitled!)

@miamifilm
@loversff
@schwule_filmwoche_freiburg
@bookendsmovie

🇺🇸Miami > 🇮🇹Torino > 🇮🇹Venezia > 🇩🇪Freiburg

A huge thanks for the amazing reception of BOOKENDS (subtitled!)

@miamifilm
@loversff
@schwule_filmwoche_freiburg
@bookendsmovie

🇺🇸Miami > 🇮🇹Torino > 🇮🇹Venezia > 🇩🇪Freiburg

A huge thanks for the amazing reception of BOOKENDS (subtitled!)

@miamifilm
@loversff
@schwule_filmwoche_freiburg
@bookendsmovie

🇺🇸Miami > 🇮🇹Torino > 🇮🇹Venezia > 🇩🇪Freiburg

A huge thanks for the amazing reception of BOOKENDS (subtitled!)

@miamifilm
@loversff
@schwule_filmwoche_freiburg
@bookendsmovie

🇺🇸Miami > 🇮🇹Torino > 🇮🇹Venezia > 🇩🇪Freiburg

A huge thanks for the amazing reception of BOOKENDS (subtitled!)

@miamifilm
@loversff
@schwule_filmwoche_freiburg
@bookendsmovie

✨ @Bookendsmovie will make its New York premiere @newfest Pride on 5/30 🎬@humanrightscampaign calls it “the queer family film we didn’t know we needed… A tender reminder of what’s possible when fmaily chooses love.” 🌈

Honored to share BOOKENDS with NY audiences in a stellar lineup of this year’s best LGBTQ+ titles 🗽

🎫 Tix at linktr.ee/bookendsmovie

Directed by: @themikedoyle
Written by: @mrnoamash

Starring: Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, @therealcarolineaaron, @mrnoamash, and @_charliebarnett

@jaredreinfeldt @belkohmygod

Produced by: @5x.media @alonshtruzman @scotteinbinder @bighenryr @mrnoamash @ostergardwarren @adamkinyon

@jonahplatt @creativepartnersproductions @midnighttheatricals

#bookends #bookendsmovie #indiefilm #newfest #pride

✨ @Bookendsmovie will make its New York premiere @newfest Pride on 5/30 🎬@humanrightscampaign calls it “the queer family film we didn’t know we needed… A tender reminder of what’s possible when fmaily chooses love.” 🌈

Honored to share BOOKENDS with NY audiences in a stellar lineup of this year’s best LGBTQ+ titles 🗽

🎫 Tix at linktr.ee/bookendsmovie

Directed by: @themikedoyle
Written by: @mrnoamash

Starring: Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, @therealcarolineaaron, @mrnoamash, and @_charliebarnett

@jaredreinfeldt @belkohmygod

Produced by: @5x.media @alonshtruzman @scotteinbinder @bighenryr @mrnoamash @ostergardwarren @adamkinyon

@jonahplatt @creativepartnersproductions @midnighttheatricals

#bookends #bookendsmovie #indiefilm #newfest #pride

✨ @Bookendsmovie will make its New York premiere @newfest Pride on 5/30 🎬@humanrightscampaign calls it “the queer family film we didn’t know we needed… A tender reminder of what’s possible when fmaily chooses love.” 🌈

Honored to share BOOKENDS with NY audiences in a stellar lineup of this year’s best LGBTQ+ titles 🗽

🎫 Tix at linktr.ee/bookendsmovie

Directed by: @themikedoyle
Written by: @mrnoamash

Starring: Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, @therealcarolineaaron, @mrnoamash, and @_charliebarnett

@jaredreinfeldt @belkohmygod

Produced by: @5x.media @alonshtruzman @scotteinbinder @bighenryr @mrnoamash @ostergardwarren @adamkinyon

@jonahplatt @creativepartnersproductions @midnighttheatricals

#bookends #bookendsmovie #indiefilm #newfest #pride

A huge thank you to @outfest. So proud to return to this amazing film festival to screen @bookendsmovie. Thank you @scottevansgram for so gracefully keeping theQ in the Q & A. And to everyone who came out to support.

A huge thank you to @outfest. So proud to return to this amazing film festival to screen @bookendsmovie. Thank you @scottevansgram for so gracefully keeping theQ in the Q & A. And to everyone who came out to support.

A huge thank you to @outfest. So proud to return to this amazing film festival to screen @bookendsmovie. Thank you @scottevansgram for so gracefully keeping theQ in the Q & A. And to everyone who came out to support.

A huge thank you to @outfest. So proud to return to this amazing film festival to screen @bookendsmovie. Thank you @scottevansgram for so gracefully keeping theQ in the Q & A. And to everyone who came out to support.

A huge thank you to @outfest. So proud to return to this amazing film festival to screen @bookendsmovie. Thank you @scottevansgram for so gracefully keeping theQ in the Q & A. And to everyone who came out to support.

A huge thank you to @outfest. So proud to return to this amazing film festival to screen @bookendsmovie. Thank you @scottevansgram for so gracefully keeping theQ in the Q & A. And to everyone who came out to support.

A huge thank you to @outfest. So proud to return to this amazing film festival to screen @bookendsmovie. Thank you @scottevansgram for so gracefully keeping theQ in the Q & A. And to everyone who came out to support.

A huge thank you to @outfest. So proud to return to this amazing film festival to screen @bookendsmovie. Thank you @scottevansgram for so gracefully keeping theQ in the Q & A. And to everyone who came out to support.

✨ 2 weeks, 3 countries, 6 major upcoming festivals 🎬

Catch @Bookendsmovie across the U.S. 🇺🇸, Italy 🇮🇹, and Germany 🇩🇪.

🎫 Dates and tix at linktr.ee/bookendsmovie

Directed by: @themikedoyle
Written by: @mrnoamash

Starring: Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, @therealcarolineaaron, @mrnoamash, and @_charliebarnett

Produced by: @5x.media @alonshtruzman @scotteinbinder @bighenryr @mrnoamash @ostergardwarren @adamkinyon

#bookends #bookendsmovie #indiefilm #filmfestival

Watch Charlie Barnett and Noam Ash take a romantic stroll in this exclusive @Bookendsmovie clip. 👀

The two star as love interests in the new dramedy about a gay writer who moves in with his grandparents — and finds something unexpected.

Catch the Los Angeles premiere of ‘Bookends,’ directed by Mike Doyle and presented by @Outfest, on April 12 at the Renberg Theater. Learn more at the link in bio. 🎬

This is my dear friend Nick and his beautiful family. Nick had lymphoma. But no longer. Nick is alive today because of a breakthrough cancer trial that saved his life. Now he is paying it forward and I am a proud member of his fundraising team. Our goal? To raise 750k. We can do it! Big or small, every single dollar counts. Won’t you join us in helping make cancer a thing of the past? Please consider donating. LINK in bio

@nick_jandl
@bloodcancerunited

This is my dear friend Nick and his beautiful family. Nick had lymphoma. But no longer. Nick is alive today because of a breakthrough cancer trial that saved his life. Now he is paying it forward and I am a proud member of his fundraising team. Our goal? To raise 750k. We can do it! Big or small, every single dollar counts. Won’t you join us in helping make cancer a thing of the past? Please consider donating. LINK in bio

@nick_jandl
@bloodcancerunited

✨ Outfest presents: the Los Angeles premiere of the award-winning @bookendsmovie 🔥

Directed by: @themikedoyle
Written by: @mrnoamash

Starring: Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, @therealcarolineaaron, @mrnoamash, and @_charliebarnett

🗓️ April 12th: 6:30pm reception, 7:30pm screening followed by Q&A.

🎫 Tix and info at outfest.org or linktr.ee/bookendsmovie

#bookends #bookendsmovie #outfest #queerfilm

✨ Outfest presents: the Los Angeles premiere of the award-winning @bookendsmovie 🔥

Directed by: @themikedoyle
Written by: @mrnoamash

Starring: Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, @therealcarolineaaron, @mrnoamash, and @_charliebarnett

🗓️ April 12th: 6:30pm reception, 7:30pm screening followed by Q&A.

🎫 Tix and info at outfest.org or linktr.ee/bookendsmovie

#bookends #bookendsmovie #outfest #queerfilm

✨ Outfest presents: the Los Angeles premiere of the award-winning @bookendsmovie 🔥

Directed by: @themikedoyle
Written by: @mrnoamash

Starring: Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, @therealcarolineaaron, @mrnoamash, and @_charliebarnett

🗓️ April 12th: 6:30pm reception, 7:30pm screening followed by Q&A.

🎫 Tix and info at outfest.org or linktr.ee/bookendsmovie

#bookends #bookendsmovie #outfest #queerfilm

🎬 Shot through the heart(land): BOOKENDS is an official selection of the 50th Cleveland International Film Festival 💙

🎫 For tix and info, visit clevelandfilm.org or linktr.ee/bookendsmovie

@Bookendsmovie
Directed by: @themikedoyle
Written by: @mrnoamash

🎞️ When Nate’s life implodes after a bad breakup, he flees to his grandparents’ retirement community. But between battling their relentless efforts to ‘improve him’, grappling with writer’s block, and an unexpected romance with his grandparents’ hot doctor, Nate finds himself torn between new family responsibilities and running the hell away from it all. 🎞️

Starring: @mrnoamash F. Murry Abraham @therealcarolineaaron @_charliebarnett

@jazelle_villanueva @belkohmygod @jaredreinfeldt

Director of Photography: @tarissegal
Production designer: @mo_money_mo_brien
Edited by: @unclerj
Music by: @dabneymorris
Music supervisor: @evergreenmusicla
Costume designer: @jacob.kosarian.costumes
Makeup: @justmakingitallup
Casting by: @bighenryr

Produced by: @5x.media @alonshtruzman @scotteinbinder @bighenryr @mrnoamash @ostergardwarren @adamkinyon

@jonahplatt @drbilldorfman @noaheisenberg426 @nicoleeisenberg720 @duke1924 @shiram335 @rgem19 @midnighttheatricals @dancingasher @micioteto @nrfrancescon @creativepartnersproductions @devorisigal@adamdanielcooper @johnnytartags @thejwinstitute

#bookends #bookendsmovie #cleveland #CIFF

🎬 Shot through the heart(land): BOOKENDS is an official selection of the 50th Cleveland International Film Festival 💙

🎫 For tix and info, visit clevelandfilm.org or linktr.ee/bookendsmovie

@Bookendsmovie
Directed by: @themikedoyle
Written by: @mrnoamash

🎞️ When Nate’s life implodes after a bad breakup, he flees to his grandparents’ retirement community. But between battling their relentless efforts to ‘improve him’, grappling with writer’s block, and an unexpected romance with his grandparents’ hot doctor, Nate finds himself torn between new family responsibilities and running the hell away from it all. 🎞️

Starring: @mrnoamash F. Murry Abraham @therealcarolineaaron @_charliebarnett

@jazelle_villanueva @belkohmygod @jaredreinfeldt

Director of Photography: @tarissegal
Production designer: @mo_money_mo_brien
Edited by: @unclerj
Music by: @dabneymorris
Music supervisor: @evergreenmusicla
Costume designer: @jacob.kosarian.costumes
Makeup: @justmakingitallup
Casting by: @bighenryr

Produced by: @5x.media @alonshtruzman @scotteinbinder @bighenryr @mrnoamash @ostergardwarren @adamkinyon

@jonahplatt @drbilldorfman @noaheisenberg426 @nicoleeisenberg720 @duke1924 @shiram335 @rgem19 @midnighttheatricals @dancingasher @micioteto @nrfrancescon @creativepartnersproductions @devorisigal@adamdanielcooper @johnnytartags @thejwinstitute

#bookends #bookendsmovie #cleveland #CIFF

🎬 Next up, BOOKENDS is heating up the 43rd edition of @miamifilm on April 16 🔥

🎫 For tix and info, visit miamifilmfestival.com or linktr.ee/bookendsmovie

@Bookendsmovie
Directed by: @themikedoyle
Written by: @mrnoamash

🎞️ When Nate’s life implodes after a bad breakup, he flees to his grandparents’ retirement community. But between battling their relentless efforts to ‘improve him’, grappling with writer’s block, and an unexpected romance with his grandparents’ hot doctor, Nate finds himself torn between new family responsibilities and running the hell away from it all. 🎞️

Starring: @mrnoamash F. Murry Abraham @therealcarolineaaron @_charliebarnett

@jazelle_villanueva @belkohmygod @jaredreinfeldt

Director of Photography: @tarissegal
Production designer: @mo_money_mo_brien
Edited by: @unclerj
Music by: @dabneymorris
Music supervisor: @evergreenmusicla
Costume designer: @jacob.kosarian.costumes
Makeup: @justmakingitallup
Casting by: @bighenryr

Produced by: @5x.media @alonshtruzman @scotteinbinder @bighenryr @mrnoamash @ostergardwarren @adamkinyon

@jonahplatt @drbilldorfman @noaheisenberg426 @nicoleeisenberg720 @duke1924 @shiram335 @rgem19 @midnighttheatricals @dancingasher @micioteto @nrfrancescon @creativepartnersproductions @devorisigal@adamdanielcooper @johnnytartags @thejwinstitute

#bookends #bookendsmovie #miami #miamifilm

🎬 Next up, BOOKENDS is heating up the 43rd edition of @miamifilm on April 16 🔥

🎫 For tix and info, visit miamifilmfestival.com or linktr.ee/bookendsmovie

@Bookendsmovie
Directed by: @themikedoyle
Written by: @mrnoamash

🎞️ When Nate’s life implodes after a bad breakup, he flees to his grandparents’ retirement community. But between battling their relentless efforts to ‘improve him’, grappling with writer’s block, and an unexpected romance with his grandparents’ hot doctor, Nate finds himself torn between new family responsibilities and running the hell away from it all. 🎞️

Starring: @mrnoamash F. Murry Abraham @therealcarolineaaron @_charliebarnett

@jazelle_villanueva @belkohmygod @jaredreinfeldt

Director of Photography: @tarissegal
Production designer: @mo_money_mo_brien
Edited by: @unclerj
Music by: @dabneymorris
Music supervisor: @evergreenmusicla
Costume designer: @jacob.kosarian.costumes
Makeup: @justmakingitallup
Casting by: @bighenryr

Produced by: @5x.media @alonshtruzman @scotteinbinder @bighenryr @mrnoamash @ostergardwarren @adamkinyon

@jonahplatt @drbilldorfman @noaheisenberg426 @nicoleeisenberg720 @duke1924 @shiram335 @rgem19 @midnighttheatricals @dancingasher @micioteto @nrfrancescon @creativepartnersproductions @devorisigal@adamdanielcooper @johnnytartags @thejwinstitute

#bookends #bookendsmovie #miami #miamifilm

🎬 BOOKENDS will make its 🇪🇺 European premiere at 🇳🇱 Amsterdam’s @rozefilmdagen on March 28th & 29th ✨

🎫 For tix and info, visit rozefilmdagen.nl or linktr.ee/bookendsmovie

@Bookendsmovie
Directed by: @themikedoyle
Written by: @mrnoamash

🎞️ When Nate’s life implodes after a bad breakup, he flees to his grandparents’ retirement community. But between battling their relentless efforts to ‘improve him’, grappling with writer’s block, and an unexpected romance with his grandparents’ hot doctor, Nate finds himself torn between new family responsibilities and running the hell away from it all. 🎞️

Starring: @mrnoamash #FMurrayAbraham @therealcarolineaaron @_charliebarnett

@jazelle_villanueva @belkohmygod @jaredreinfeldt

Director of Photography: @tarissegal
Production designer: @mo_money_mo_brien
Edited by: @unclerj
Music by: @dabneymorris
Music supervisor: @evergreenmusicla
Costume designer: @jacob.kosarian.costumes
Makeup: @justmakingitallup
Casting by: @bighenryr

Produced by: @5x.media @alonshtruzman @scotteinbinder @bighenryr @mrnoamash @ostergardwarren @adamkinyon

@jonahplatt @drbilldorfman @noaheisenberg426 @nicoleeisenberg720 @duke1924 @shiram335 @rgem19 @midnighttheatricals @dancingasher @micioteto @nrfrancescon @creativepartnersproductions @devorisigal@adamdanielcooper @johnnytartags @thejwinstitute

#bookends #bookendsmovie #rozefilmdagen #amsterdam

🎬 BOOKENDS will make its 🇪🇺 European premiere at 🇳🇱 Amsterdam’s @rozefilmdagen on March 28th & 29th ✨

🎫 For tix and info, visit rozefilmdagen.nl or linktr.ee/bookendsmovie

@Bookendsmovie
Directed by: @themikedoyle
Written by: @mrnoamash

🎞️ When Nate’s life implodes after a bad breakup, he flees to his grandparents’ retirement community. But between battling their relentless efforts to ‘improve him’, grappling with writer’s block, and an unexpected romance with his grandparents’ hot doctor, Nate finds himself torn between new family responsibilities and running the hell away from it all. 🎞️

Starring: @mrnoamash #FMurrayAbraham @therealcarolineaaron @_charliebarnett

@jazelle_villanueva @belkohmygod @jaredreinfeldt

Director of Photography: @tarissegal
Production designer: @mo_money_mo_brien
Edited by: @unclerj
Music by: @dabneymorris
Music supervisor: @evergreenmusicla
Costume designer: @jacob.kosarian.costumes
Makeup: @justmakingitallup
Casting by: @bighenryr

Produced by: @5x.media @alonshtruzman @scotteinbinder @bighenryr @mrnoamash @ostergardwarren @adamkinyon

@jonahplatt @drbilldorfman @noaheisenberg426 @nicoleeisenberg720 @duke1924 @shiram335 @rgem19 @midnighttheatricals @dancingasher @micioteto @nrfrancescon @creativepartnersproductions @devorisigal@adamdanielcooper @johnnytartags @thejwinstitute

#bookends #bookendsmovie #rozefilmdagen #amsterdam

🎬 BOOKENDS will make its 🇪🇺 European premiere at 🇳🇱 Amsterdam’s @rozefilmdagen on March 28th & 29th ✨

🎫 For tix and info, visit rozefilmdagen.nl or linktr.ee/bookendsmovie

@Bookendsmovie
Directed by: @themikedoyle
Written by: @mrnoamash

🎞️ When Nate’s life implodes after a bad breakup, he flees to his grandparents’ retirement community. But between battling their relentless efforts to ‘improve him’, grappling with writer’s block, and an unexpected romance with his grandparents’ hot doctor, Nate finds himself torn between new family responsibilities and running the hell away from it all. 🎞️

Starring: @mrnoamash #FMurrayAbraham @therealcarolineaaron @_charliebarnett

@jazelle_villanueva @belkohmygod @jaredreinfeldt

Director of Photography: @tarissegal
Production designer: @mo_money_mo_brien
Edited by: @unclerj
Music by: @dabneymorris
Music supervisor: @evergreenmusicla
Costume designer: @jacob.kosarian.costumes
Makeup: @justmakingitallup
Casting by: @bighenryr

Produced by: @5x.media @alonshtruzman @scotteinbinder @bighenryr @mrnoamash @ostergardwarren @adamkinyon

@jonahplatt @drbilldorfman @noaheisenberg426 @nicoleeisenberg720 @duke1924 @shiram335 @rgem19 @midnighttheatricals @dancingasher @micioteto @nrfrancescon @creativepartnersproductions @devorisigal@adamdanielcooper @johnnytartags @thejwinstitute

#bookends #bookendsmovie #rozefilmdagen #amsterdam