BFI FLARE 2025: The US writer-director explores the origins of her debut feature’s nonbinary central character, finding the nostalgic and sacred through screens and music, and creating a sort of cinematic infinity mirror.

SXSW 2025: We explore how a new documentary about astronaut Sally Ride opens up a vital realm of questions around the remembrance of LGBTQIA+ individuals in the public consciousness after their passing.

BFI FLARE 2025: The French filmmaker speaks on their campy, vibrant, and delightfully spectacular debut feature, a musical following the romance between two musical divas through tumultuous decades.

TROMSØ 2025: In this wide-ranging conversation, the writer-director speaks on her relationship to documentary/fiction, the importance of the mystified world, and creating films about the trans experience that aren’t exclusively uplifting.

Diverse in style, genre, mode of storytelling, country of origin, and so much more, here are our picks for 2024's best films from a queer lens and canted angle.