KARLOVY VARY 2026: The Iranian filmmaker shares his approach to this Berlin-set drama that examines the echo chamber of conservative religion as it clashes with the realities of queer life.
KARLOVY VARY 2026: The writer-director shares his conscientious approach to a debut feature focused on desire, intimacy, and economic reality of working women in contemporary Myanmar.
KARLOVY VARY 2026: Between public spaces and private encounters comes the Croatian director’s debut feature, which trades in different forms of intimacy through all that is left unspoken.
CURATOR TALKS: On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the world’s longest-running queer film festival, we explore how the event responds to history and sees the transformation of queer cinema.
NEW RELEASES: The team behind the year’s most controversial queer film explore its nuance as they look back on their experience.
FRAMELINE50: The French filmmaker talks to us about staying in the realm of questions, awkwardness, and misunderstandings while building a family in her first feature.
FRAMELINE50: The mother and son duo share their experiences of looking at the same memories from different temporal vantage points and their thoughts on a trans gaze in documentary filmmaking.
FRAMELINE50: The South African filmmaker shares her no-holds-barred approach to making films, knowing what her audience wants to see, and bringing portrayals of Black girls back to a genuinely recognisable reality.
FRAMELINE50: The Chinese-Canadian filmmaker tells us about infusing her immigrant experience with the topic of queer life, rooting romance in friendship, and letting freedom run its course, even if it means hesitating a little bit at first.
FRAMELINE50: The director and one of the stars of this Canadian thriller talk about the unique energy of a small set, forging sapphic intimacy onscreen. and coincidentally making an eerily resonant film.
