PURPLE HOUR

cinema from a queer lens and canted angle.

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Looking for a Role to Play: Gender Performativity in Andrius Blaževičius’ 'How to Divorce During the War'
SUNDANCE 2026: Marija and Vytas navigate their uncomfortable divorce as the Russian invasion of Ukraine rages on, setting loose a disruption of binary and performative roles amidst these chaotic events.
'La belle année' by Angelica Ruffier
The Fluidity of Desire: 'La belle année' by Angelica Ruffier
ROTTERDAM 2026: This graceful documentary self-investigation uncovers all that remains in the home of her late father, including her now 20-year-old desire for her childhood teacher.
Brydie O'Connor, director of 'Barbara Forever'
‘How do I experience my queerness in time?’: Brydie O’Connor on ‘Barbara Forever’
SUNDANCE 2026: The US director opens us up to more than just the life and work of Barbara Hammer, lesbian experimental filmmaker extraordinaire, by sharing how personal and cinematic queer lives are more than intertwined.

REVIEWS

'La belle année' by Angelica Ruffier
The Fluidity of Desire: 'La belle année' by Angelica Ruffier
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
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Resorting to Tenderness – A Temporal Implant: 'Before/After' (2025) by Manoël Dupont
Still from 'Queens of Drama' by Alexis Langlois
All You Need is Love and Queerpop: 'Queens of Drama' (2024) by Alexis Langlois
Still from Rohan Parashuram Kanawade's 'Cactus Pears'
Beneath the Shade of Your Leaves, I Grow: 'Cactus Pears' (2025) by Rohan Parashuram Kanawade
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Inside These Walls, I’ll Carry You: 'The Crowd' (2025) by Sahand Kabiri
Still from Petersen Vargas' 'Some Nights I Feel Like Walking'
Soft Boys, Sharp Corners: 'Some Nights I Feel Like Walking' (2024) by Petersen Vargas

INTERVIEWS

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‘I hope people start to feel that queer film is for everyone’: Carly Beath, executive director of Inside Out
Brydie O'Connor, director of 'Barbara Forever'
‘How do I experience my queerness in time?’: Brydie O’Connor on ‘Barbara Forever’
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’
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
Marcelo Caetano, director of 'Baby'
‘I was trying to understand who I was by looking to another generation’: Marcelo Caetano on ‘Baby’
Kukla at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival
‘We are just mediums for ideas and visions and sparks’: Kukla on ‘Fantasy’
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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'