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.

CANNES 2026: Léa Drucker and Mélanie Thierry are fleeting lovers in this sophomore feature that rejects the manic trope of irresistible sapphic passion, trading it for a welcome calmness stemming from the perceptiveness between the two very different...

TRIBECA25 / FRAMELINE50: In this directorial debut, two young women find themselves in a fleeting romantic encounter over one night in Shanghai, where memories are both made and uprooted as the duo enters a space of their own.

CANNES 2026: Between a supportive community that suffocates and an anonymised village that condemns, a Kinnar trans woman searches for her own path of belonging in this Cannes-awarded Nepalese feature debut.

CANNES 2026: The Swiss filmmakers create a little piece of magic in their debut feature, a docufiction about a trans woman determined to fix up her old VW Beetle for racing: her quest for personal redemption.

CANNES 2026: The US filmmaker creates something psychosexually irresistible in this queer fantasia on the ecstasy of spectatorship and embracing the darkness of desire.

SUNDANCE 2026: The New Zealand filmmaker's debut feature leans into rationality and the retrospective gaze as a means of emotional comfort, where its narrative neatness is exceedingly alluring.

BERLINALE 2026: Men of a small fishing town are revealed for who they are beyond stereotypes in this gentle, multifaceted portrait of masculinity and community.

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.