PURPLE HOUR

cinema from a queer lens and canted angle

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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
CURATOR TALKS: On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the world's longest-running queer film festival, we explore how the event responds to history and sees the transformation of queer cinema.
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'I think identification is the only way we reach the other': Alice Douard on 'Love Letters'
FRAMELINE50: The French filmmaker talks to us about staying in the realm of questions, awkwardness, and misunderstandings while building a family in her first feature.
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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'
FRAMELINE50: The mother and son duo share their experiences of looking at the same memories from different temporal vantage points and their thoughts on a trans gaze in documentary filmmaking.

REVIEWS

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
'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

INTERVIEWS

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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'
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'The body can speak to so many things: power, identity, courage': Xiaodan He on 'Montreal, My Beautiful'
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‘I always come back to women’s relationships and how women do so much’: Gloria Mercer and Bethany Brown on ‘A Safe Distance’
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'The act of making this film and the sheer existence of the two characters queer the cityscape': Shan Jiang on 'Ephemera'
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