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cinema from a queer lens and canted angle

Still from SUMMER DRIFT by Céline Carridroit and Aline Suter
Oh, What Beautiful Machinery: 'Summer Drift' by Céline Carridroit and Aline Suter
CANNES 2026: The Swiss filmmakers create a little piece of magic in their debut feature, a docufiction about a trans woman determined to fix up her old VW Beetle for racing: her quest for personal redemption.
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The Ecstasy of the Monstrous: 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' by Jane Schoenbrun
CANNES 2026: The US filmmaker creates something psychosexually irresistible in this queer fantasia on the ecstasy of spectatorship and embracing the darkness of desire.
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'All the images I create must be aware of the responsibility they carry': Markus Schleinzer on 'Rose'
INDIELISBOA 2026: The Austrian filmmaker speaks about the necessity of portraying the consequences of violence, freedom as tied to desire, and refusing conventions around gendered bodily presentation in cinema.

REVIEWS

Still from SUMMER DRIFT by Céline Carridroit and Aline Suter
Oh, What Beautiful Machinery: 'Summer Drift' by Céline Carridroit and Aline Suter
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The Ecstasy of the Monstrous: 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' by Jane Schoenbrun
Still from Paloma Schneideman's 'Big Girls Don't Cry'
Covering the Tiers: 'Big Girls Don't Cry' (2026) by Paloma Schneideman
Still from Pete Muller's 'Bucks Harbor'
Beneath the Lobster’s Shell: 'Bucks Harbor' (2026) by Pete Muller
'La belle année' by Angelica Ruffier
The Fluidity of Desire: 'La belle année' (2026) by Angelica Ruffier
Cooper Hoffmann and Olivia Wilde in Gregg Araki's 'I Want Your Sex'
Be Careful What You Wish For: 'I Want Your Sex' (2026) by Gregg Araki
Still from Moshe Rosenthal's 'Tell Me Everything'
Scent Memories: 'Tell Me Everything' (2026) by Moshe Rosenthal
Nadia Melliti in Hafsia Herzi's 'The Little Sister'
Sapphic Origami: 'The Little Sister' (2025) by Hafsia Herzi

INTERVIEWS

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'All the images I create must be aware of the responsibility they carry': Markus Schleinzer on 'Rose'
Sophie Heldman
'We always tried to stay true to who we felt these people were': Sophie Heldman on 'The Education of Jane Cumming'
Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani
'The film is about being understood by others, but also making the effort to understand them': Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani on 'Bouchra'
Matthias Lintner
'I'm on the side of making films where being queer isn't a big deal': Matthias Lintner on 'My Boyfriend the Fascist'
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'We try to reflect what the community is talking about': Bohdan Zhuk, SUNNY BUNNY director
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'Sexuality stays with us even when our mind fades': Jose Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregi on 'Maspalomas'
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'I want people to broaden their horizons about what African love can be': Pamela Adie on 'Ìfé: (The Sequel)'
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'My job is to pull queer radicalism back to where it once belonged': Fil Ieropoulos on 'Uchronia'
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