Everything about Yaya Xi-lin Wang’s ‘Into the next tide’ cannot be contained. The outlines of its seaborne
figures are in constant flux, as is the context in which the work is presented.
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”.
INSIDE OUT 2025: From graduation project to festival favourite, the director and actor discuss sincerity, vulnerability, and forming relationships through images.
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.
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.
QUEER EAST 2025: The long-time friends and now directors offer a look into what they really wanted to create, as filmmakers, in their riotous comedic debut feature.
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: The Brazilian writer-director duo talks performance, life’s perpetual push-and-pulls, and provoking the audience’s horniness in their erotic thriller.
BFI FLARE 2025: The US writer-director explores the origins of her debut feature’s nonbinary central character, finding the nostalgic and sacred through screens and music, and creating a sort of cinematic infinity mirror.
