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cinema from a queer lens and canted angle

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Reviews
Covering the Tiers: 'Big Girls Don't Cry' (2026) by Paloma Schneideman
SUNDANCE 2026: The New Zealand filmmaker's debut feature leans into rationality and the retrospective gaze as a means of emotional comfort, where its narrative neatness is exceedingly alluring.
09 March 2026
  Eliana Resnick
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Interviews
'This is a festival for a specific community': Diana Cipriano, BFI Flare programmer
BFI FLARE 2026: As the famed queer film festival celebrate its 40th birthday, we learn about trends, highlights, and curatorial perspectives in creating an event specifically for the queer community.
08 March 2026
  Olivia Popp
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Non Classé
Mother Mary Comes to Me: The Sensuous Renaissance of 'Little Trouble Girls'
BFI FLARE 2026: We take a look at one of the most intriguing films of 2025, Slovenian filmmaker Urška Djukić's story of Catholicism-meets-sexuality, made unexpected.
28 February 2026
  Olivia Popp

REVIEWS

Still from Paloma Schneideman's 'Big Girls Don't Cry'
Covering the Tiers: 'Big Girls Don't Cry' (2026) by Paloma Schneideman
Sundance 2026
Still from Pete Muller's 'Bucks Harbor'
Beneath the Lobster’s Shell: 'Bucks Harbor' (2026) by Pete Muller
Berlinale 2026
'La belle année' by Angelica Ruffier
The Fluidity of Desire: 'La belle année' (2026) by Angelica Ruffier
Rotterdam 2026
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
Sundance 2026
Still from Moshe Rosenthal's 'Tell Me Everything'
Scent Memories: 'Tell Me Everything' (2026) by Moshe Rosenthal
Sundance 2026
Nadia Melliti in Hafsia Herzi's 'The Little Sister'
Sapphic Origami: 'The Little Sister' (2025) by Hafsia Herzi
Tromsø 2026
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Resorting to Tenderness – A Temporal Implant: 'Before/After' (2025) by Manoël Dupont
THESSALONIKI 2025
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That August in Bilbao: 'Jone, Sometimes' (2025) by Sara Fantova
San Sebastián 2025

INTERVIEWS

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'I thought it would be fun to find a cliché and turn it on its head': Mickey Stepanskiy on 'Knights on a Quest for Love'
Anima 2026
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'This is a festival for a specific community': Diana Cipriano, BFI Flare programmer
BFI Flare 2026
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'In Brussels, animation and the queer community have been linked since the beginning': Dominique Seutin, co-director of Anima
Anima 2026
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'It was always the queer experience at its core': Kai Stänicke on 'Trial of Hein'
Berlinale 2026
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‘I hope people start to feel that queer film is for everyone’: Carly Beath, executive director of Inside Out
Inside Out 2026
Brydie O'Connor, director of 'Barbara Forever'
‘How do I experience my queerness in time?’: Brydie O’Connor on ‘Barbara Forever’
Sundance 2026
Jamie Kiernan O'Brien, writer-director of 'Gender Studies'
‘Many movies I love are not explicitly queer in content, but more in tone’: Jamie Kiernan O’Brien on ‘Gender Studies’
Sundance 2026
John Nein, Sundance senior programmer and director of strategic initiatives
'Queer cinema is inseparable from independent storytelling': John Nein, senior programmer at Sundance Film Festival
Sundance 2026