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: 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: The Nanchuan-born filmmaker signs a highly personal short documentary on their family’s attempts to rid them of their non-heteronormative desire, driven by the belief in demonic possession.
ROTTERDAM 2025: In a bustling southern Chinese city, two codependent teen girls navigate the dueling loneliness and desire of these all-engulfing fateful years as one falls for the other.
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/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.
SUNDANCE 2025: The Alaska-born writer-director’s sophomore feature is just as playful as it is devastating, also featuring a very versatile Dylan O’Brien.
SUNDANCE/ROTTERDAM 2025: Two young Tunisians set off on a cross-country journey with the end goal of escaping their systemic social conditions in this genuinely sincere, vibrant, and hopeful debut from Tunisian writer-director Amel Guellaty.
SUNDANCE 2025: In this stylistically creative debut feature, a young police officer in ‘90s upstate New York tasked with entrapping gay men must decide between staying true to himself and his rising career.
TROMSØ 2025: The Swedish filmmaker offers a raw and personal collage of her medical transition by returning to the treatment centre where her gender-affirming surgery took place in 2012, accompanied by others preparing to do the same.
