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.
‘The writing of history has to be messier’: Paula Tomás Marques on ‘Two Times João Liberada’
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.
San Francisco, I’m Coming Home: Heterotopia and Elena Oxman’s ‘Outerlands’
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.
‘The film was a reclamation of this right to imagine our lives, our stories’: Kani Lapuerta on ‘Niñxs’
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.
The Importance of Being Earnest, Redux: ‘Sad Jokes’ (2024) by Fabian Stumm
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.
Horny, Frustrated, Joyous: Best of Queer Shorts at Anima 2025
ANIMA 2025: We take a look at three highlights from this Brussels festival for animated films, which have all been critically acclaimed to date—for good reason.
Entrusting a Legacy: The Politics of Remembrance in Cristina Costantini’s ‘Sally’
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.
Sex Work, Yassified and Empowered: ‘Fucktoys’ (2025) by Annapurna Sriram
SXSW 2025: In her self-described “bubblegum grindhouse” feature, the Nashville-born actor turned writer-director creates a stylistically compelling, even if at times slightly too plotless, sex work-cum-road movie comedy.
‘We’re going to talk about being gay; we’re going to talk about relationships, sex, everything’: Marco Berger on ‘The Astronaut Lovers’
BFI FLARE 2025: The Argentinian writer-director takes us into the ideas behind his latest feature, including his desire to make a film inspired by the traditions of classic romantic comedies and composing each shot like a painting.
Love in the Age of Instant Gratification: ‘I Really Love My Husband’ (2025) by GG Hawkins
SXSW 2025: With her feature debut about a couple on their emotionally shaky honeymoon, GG Hawkins interrogates a contemporary feeling of social malaise where we simply don’t know how to be alone.