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'I believe there is something special about queer desires, whether tenderness or brutality': Aung Phyoe on 'Fruit Gathering'
KARLOVY VARY 2026: With the first film from Myanmar at the Czech festival, the writer-director shares his conscientious approach to a debut feature focused on the complexities of desire, intimacy, and economic reality of working women in contemporary...
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‘While we were exploring the characters, we also found space for a bit of ambiguity’: Mate Ugrin on ‘Petty Thieves’
KARLOVY VARY 2026: Between public spaces and private encounters comes the Croatian director's debut feature, which trades in different forms of intimacy through all that is left unspoken.
Hiam Abbass and Eya Bouteraa in 'In a Whisper'
Retracing Our Steps: 'In a Whisper' (2026) by Leyla Bouzid
FRAMELINE50: A young sapphic Tunisian woman living in Paris returns home for her uncle's funeral, both entangling and disentangling the complexities of a familial diorama when she learns her uncle, too, was queer.

REVIEWS

Hiam Abbass and Eya Bouteraa in 'In a Whisper'
Retracing Our Steps: 'In a Whisper' (2026) by Leyla Bouzid
Mélanie Thierry and Léa Drucker in 'A Woman's Life'
In the Mundanity of Understanding: ‘A Woman’s Life’ (2026) by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
Still from Shan Jiang's 'Ephemera'
In Our Own World By Night: 'Ephemera' (2026) by Shan Jiang
Still from 'Elephants in the Fog' by Abinash Bikram Shah
A Fragile Sanctuary: 'Elephants in the Fog' (2026) by Abinash Bikram Shah
Still from SUMMER DRIFT by Céline Carridroit and Aline Suter
Oh, What Beautiful Machinery: 'Summer Drift' (2026) by Céline Carridroit and Aline Suter
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The Ecstasy of the Monstrous: 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' (2026) 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

INTERVIEWS

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'I believe there is something special about queer desires, whether tenderness or brutality': Aung Phyoe on 'Fruit Gathering'
Photo credit: KVIFF
‘While we were exploring the characters, we also found space for a bit of ambiguity’: Mate Ugrin on ‘Petty Thieves’
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'There’s this effort from queer and trans filmmakers to really look at the media that’s shaped us': Kate Bove, Frameline associate director of programmes
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'It’s such a luxury to sit in flaws and humanness': Elliot Tuttle, Kieron Moore, and Reed Birney on ‘Blue Film’
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'I think identification is the only way we reach the other': Alice Douard on 'Love Letters'
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'It was important to show that transition is very much a collaborative experience': Amy Jenkins and Adam Sieswerda on 'Adam’s Apple'
'Black Burns Fast' director Sandulela Asanda
'I want to change the way mainstream media sees queer women and queer Black people': Sandulela Asanda on 'Black Burns Fast'
Xiaodan He
'The body can speak to so many things: power, identity, courage': Xiaodan He on 'Montreal, My Beautiful'
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