BERLINALE 2025: The Australian animated feature isn’t the radical, anarchic queer middle-finger to the heteropatriarchy that it claims to be, but it is an eager, honest effort by these first-time feature directors.
BERLINALE 2025: The Teddy Award-winning Brazilian filmmaking duo returns to the festival with an erotic but not-so-thrilling melodrama where the film’s lighting ultimately steals the spotlight.
BERLINALE 2025: The writer-director and lead actor talk connection in an estranging world, staging intimate scenes, and creating harmonious visuals on a low budget.
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.
BERLINALE 2025: A young man traverses a series of corporeal gay encounters in Hong Kong in this self-described panoramic overview of loneliness and fleeting connection in today’s world.
ROTTERDAM 2025: Premiering her sophomore feature, the Taiwanese director spoke to us about the multifaceted ways in which her newest film speaks to the “contradictory nature of contemporary Taiwanese society”.
SUNDANCE 2025: In this report, we highlight five interesting Sundance short films of different styles that we found memorable across the festival’s LGBTQIA+ offerings this year.
ROTTERDAM 2025: Julian Chou’s sophomore feature presents a meandering look at the state of queer acceptance in Taiwan through the conceit of an unexpected love triangle.
SUNDANCE 2025: The director of this new gay love story speaks about collaborating with a Copenhagen porn collective and drawing from real-life trans experiences in the Danish healthcare system.
SUNDANCE/ROTTERDAM 2025: It’s colourful, it’s counterhegemonic, it’s the coolest club inspired by those in Cali, Colombia—it’s Babel, where you can gamble with Death and order drinks from the Devil.
