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Movement Beyond the Surface: Notes on Shatara Michelle Ford’s 'Dreams in Nightmares'
INSIDE OUT 2025: The writer-director's sophomore feature encourages us to think critically about their characters in space and through the liberatory act of movement.
Still from Elena Oxman's 'Outerlands'
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.
A still from Deepa Mehta's 'Fire'
Deepa Mehta's 'Fire' and the Lesbian Connotation of Saying No
Nearly three decades after its premiere in Toronto, the first film in Deepa Mehta's acclaimed 'Elements' trilogy continues to offer a poignant yet scorching cinematic exemplar of lesbian refusal.
A still from Cristina Costantini's 'Sally'
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.
The ensemble cast of Lola Arias' 'Reas'.
Purple Hour's Top Films of 2024 Featuring LGBTQIA+ Narratives
Diverse in style, genre, mode of storytelling, country of origin, and so much more, here are our picks for 2024's best films from a queer lens and canted angle.