PURPLE HOUR

cinema from a queer lens and canted angle

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A Smothering Embrace: 'The Holy Boy' (2025) by Paolo Strippoli
KARLOVY VARY 2026: The young Italian filmmaker moulds a new face for folk horror in his newest work, which ties the monstrous to the act of repression.
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'People who do not eat well are not to be trusted with artwork': Viv Li on 'Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest'
KARLOVY VARY 2026: The China-born, Berlin-based director dishes up East and West without ever tasting resolution.
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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: The writer-director shares his conscientious approach to a debut feature focused on desire, intimacy, and economic reality of working women in contemporary Myanmar.

REVIEWS

the holy boy
A Smothering Embrace: 'The Holy Boy' (2025) by Paolo Strippoli
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

INTERVIEWS

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'People who do not eat well are not to be trusted with artwork': Viv Li on 'Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest'
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‘Fiction becomes a great way to externalise and understand these issues’: Sullivan LePostec, MIDPOINT Focus Queer lead tutor
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'It’s a story we’ve seen before in some ways, but never here and never about us': Šimon Holý on 'Chica Checa'
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'If we look from this point of view, I can say that this might be my first film': Nader Saeivar on 'Hijamat'
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'I believe there is something special about queer desires, whether tenderness or brutality': Aung Phyoe on 'Fruit Gathering'
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‘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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