TRIBECA 2026: The first-time feature filmmaker talks about being inspired by stories familiar to us, finding the specificity in a queer tale, and making an imprint on an urban landscape.
ANIMA 2026: Through the work of this Gent-based media scholar, we explore the concept of and intention behind their live queer readings of films.
TRIBECA 2026: Ahead of its 25th anniversary edition, we learned about the New York festival’s audience-driven approach, a move toward queer stories existing rather than explaining, and festivals as a platform for queer cinema to evolve as a form.
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.
INDIELISBOA 2026: The Austrian filmmaker speaks about the necessity of portraying the consequences of violence, freedom as tied to desire, and refusing conventions around gendered bodily presentation in cinema.
INDIELISBOA 2026: The Berlin-based director explores the complex nature of truth through archives, the historical invisibilisation of women, and how her film embraces queerness in multiple ways.
INDIELISBOA 2026: The directors of this Toronto-premiered animated feature talk collaboration, combining documentary material with fictional story origins, and the imperative of specificity.
SUNNY BUNNY 2026: We take a closer look at Ukraine’s only queer film festival, which is working to change the narrative both sociopolitically and cinematically.
STOCKFISH / BFI FLARE 2026: The co-directors of the Basque film making waves across the festival circuit talk about collaboration, change in social policy, and coming out of one’s own closet in different ways.
