Sapphic Origami: ‘The Little Sister’ (2025) by Hafsia Herzi
TROMSØ 2026: Starring breakout Nadia Melliti, this Queer Palm winner unfolds a potent queer coming-of-age story that’s soft to the touch and warm to the heart.
‘I was trying to understand who I was by looking to another generation’: Marcelo Caetano on ‘Baby’
PINK SCREENS 2025: The Brazilian director shares his thoughts on creating cinema as a testament to life, found family, and the city of São Paulo.
‘We are just mediums for ideas and visions and sparks’: Kukla on ‘Fantasy’
LOCARNO / SARAJEVO 2025: The Slovenian director shares the multifaceted inspiration for her film, in which three women friends meet a trans woman whose presence encourages them to break out of their patriarchal prison.
‘This is feminist, this isn’t fantastical’: Annapurna Sriram on ‘Fucktoys’
KVIFF 2025: We spoke with the Nashville-born filmmaker about the worldbuilding in Trashtown, USA, and rejecting the expectation of what a feminist film and a critique of capitalism need to look like.
‘How are you going to light reality?’: Manoël Dupont on ‘Before/After’
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”.
‘I’m really interested in the aesthetics of Americana when you put queer people, Black people in those spaces’: Josalynn Smith on ‘Ride or Die’
TRIBECA 2025: The debuting director shares how drawing from personal conversations and queer cinema from the ’90s helped her create one of the strongest queer road movies of recent years.
All You Need is Love and Queerpop: ‘Queens of Drama’ (2024) by Alexis Langlois
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.
Beneath the Shade of Your Leaves, I Grow: ‘Cactus Pears’ (2025) by Rohan Parashuram Kanawade
SXSW LONDON / INSIDE OUT 2025: This multi-award winner is a quiet journey into sensorial discovery between a man who goes to the Maharashtra countryside for his father’s funeral and an unwed farmer.
Movement Beyond the Surface: Notes on Shatara Michelle Ford’s ‘Dreams in Nightmares’
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 These Walls, I’ll Carry You: ‘The Crowd’ (2025) by Sahand Kabiri
INSIDE OUT 2025: The Iranian writer-director signs a profound testament to community in this tale of celebration, mourning, and impending departure.