PURPLE HOUR

cinema from a queer lens and canted angle

Still from Paloma Schneideman's 'Big Girls Don't Cry'
Covering the Tiers: 'Big Girls Don't Cry' (2026) by Paloma Schneideman
SUNDANCE 2026: The Australian filmmaker's debut feature leans into rationality and the retrospective gaze as a means of emotional comfort, where its narrative neatness is exceedingly alluring.
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'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.
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'It was always the queer experience at its core': Kai Stänicke on 'Trial of Hein'
BERLINALE 2026: The Berlin-based filmmaker shares the importance of using a personal story for his first feature, exploring the tension between the past and present—as well as the memories that come embedded within them.

REVIEWS

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
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

INTERVIEWS

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'This is a festival for a specific community': Diana Cipriano, BFI Flare programmer
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'In Brussels, animation and the queer community have been linked since the beginning': Dominique Seutin, co-director of Anima
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'It was always the queer experience at its core': Kai Stänicke on 'Trial of Hein'
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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’