KVIFF 2025: We spoke to the Nashville-born filmmaker to discuss the worldbuilding in Trashtown, USA, and rejecting the expectation of what a feminist film and a critique of capitalism need to look like.
KVIFF 2025: The first-time feature director speaks about creating an immensely collaborative and inanimate product based on improvisation and small shifts from so-called “reality”.
XPOSED 2025: The French filmmaker soars to beautifully chaotic, queer, campy heights with this festival favourite about two star-crossed lovers looking down the barrel of the music industry’s straight and conformist gun.
SXSW LONDON 2025 / INSIDE OUT 2025: This multi-award winner is a quiet journey into sensorial discovery between a man who goes the Maharashtra countryside for his father’s funeral and an unwed farmer.
INSIDE OUT 2025: The writer-director’s sophomore feature encourages us to think critically about their characters in space and through the liberatory act of movement.
INSIDE OUT 2025: The Iranian writer-director signs a profound testament to community in this tale of celebration, mourning, and impending departure.
INDIELISBOA 2025: The writer-director shares her perspective on the disruption of standardised historical narratives, the politics of representation, and fostering materiality that evokes the power of archival work.
SFFILM 2025: The US writer-director makes her tenderly liminal feature debut with a story that’s just as much a reckoning with being stuck in limbo as it is a love letter to The City.
VISIONS DU RÉEL 2025: Mexican filmmaker Kani Lapuerta shares his experience of spending eight years bringing us into the joyous world of Karla, a young trans girl living in a town outside of Mexico City.
BFI FLARE 2025: In an unwavering refusal of cynicism, the German writer-director-actor creates a thought-provoking sophomore feature by pointing to life’s inherent ironies and beautiful moments as they play out in often unexpected ways.
