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a new home for cinema from a queer lens and canted angle.

Annapurna Sriram at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Interviews
'This is feminist, this isn’t fantastical': Annapurna Sriram on 'Fucktoys'
KVIFF 2025: We spoke to the Nashville-born filmmaker to discuss the worldbuilding in Trashtown, USA, and rejecting the expectation of what a feminist film and a critique of capitalism need to look like.
17 July 2025
  Olivia Popp
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Interviews
'How are you going to light reality?': Manoël Dupont on 'Before / After'
KVIFF 2025: The first-time feature director speaks about creating an immensely collaborative and inanimate product based on improvisation and small shifts from so-called "reality".
17 July 2025
  Olivia Popp
'Ride or Die' director Josalynn Smith
Interviews
'I’m really interested in the aesthetics of Americana and what it does when you put queer people, Black people in those spaces': Josalynn Smith on ‘Ride or Die’
TRIBECA 2025: The debuting director shares how drawing from personal conversations and queer cinema from the '90s helped her create one of the strongest queer road movies of recent years.
14 June 2025
  Olivia Popp

REVIEWS

Still from 'Queens of Drama' by Alexis Langlois
All You Need is Love and Queerpop – 'Queens of Drama' (2024, 'Les reines du drame') by Alexis Langlois
XPOSED 2025
Still from Rohan Parashuram Kanawade's 'Cactus Pears'
Beneath the Shade of Your Leaves, I Grow – 'Cactus Pears' (2025, साबर बोंडं) by Rohan Parashuram Kanawade
Inside Out 2025 / SXSW London 2025
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Inside These Walls, I’ll Carry You: 'The Crowd' (2025, جماعت) by Sahand Kabiri
Inside Out 2025
Still from Petersen Vargas' 'Some Nights I Feel Like Walking'
Soft Boys, Sharp Corners – 'Some Nights I Feel Like Walking' (2024) by Petersen Vargas
XPOSED 2025
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The Village That Raised the Dolls – 'The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo' (2025, 'La misteriosa mirada del flamenco') by Diego Céspedes 
Cannes 2025
Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal in Oliver Hermanus' 'The History of Sound'
Sepia, Silence, and Sad Gays – 'The History of Sound' (2025) by Oliver Hermanus
Cannes 2025
Jonas Dassler (left) and Fabian Stumm in 'Sad Jokes'
The Importance of Being Earnest, Redux – 'Sad Jokes' (2024) by Fabian Stumm
BFI Flare 2025
A still from 'Fucktoys' by Annapurna Sriram
Sex Work, Yassified but Empowered – 'Fucktoys' (2025) by Annapurna Sriram
SXSW 2025

INTERVIEWS

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‘Our radical futures must be made of joy’: Yaya Xi-lin Wang on ‘Into the next tide’
Annapurna Sriram at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
'This is feminist, this isn’t fantastical': Annapurna Sriram on 'Fucktoys'
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'How are you going to light reality?': Manoël Dupont on 'Before / After'
KVIFF 2025
Actor Benjamin Turnbull (left) and Director Devin Shears (right) of 'Cherub'
'It’s about being seen': Devin Shears and Benjamin Turnbull on ‘Cherub’
Inside Out 2025
'Ride or Die' director Josalynn Smith
'I’m really interested in the aesthetics of Americana and what it does when you put queer people, Black people in those spaces': Josalynn Smith on ‘Ride or Die’
Tribeca 2025
Paula Tomás Marques, director of ‘Two Times João Liberada’
'The writing of history has to be messier—it has to encounter this impossibility of crystallisation': Paula Tomás Marques on ‘Two Times João Liberada’
IndieLisboa 2025
Directors Ivan Leung (right) and Harrison Xu of 'Extremely Unique Dynamic'
'This interview is a meta extension of the film': Ivan Leung and Harrison Xu on 'Extremely Unique Dynamic'
Queer East 2025
A still from Kani Lapuerta's "Niñxs".
'The film was a reclamation of this right to imagine our lives, our stories': Kani Lapuerta on 'Niñxs'
Visions du Réel