REVIEWS

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Still from 'Queens of Drama' by Alexis Langlois
All You Need is Love and Queerpop – 'Queens of Drama' (2024, 'Les reines du drame') by Alexis Langlois
XPOSED 2025: The French filmmaker soars to beautifully chaotic, queer, campy heights with this festival favourite about two star-crossed lovers looking down the barrel of the music industry’s straight and conformist gun.
Still from Rohan Parashuram Kanawade's 'Cactus Pears'
Beneath the Shade of Your Leaves, I Grow – 'Cactus Pears' (2025, साबर बोंडं) by Rohan Parashuram Kanawade
SXSW LONDON 2025 / INSIDE OUT 2025: This multi-award winner is a quiet journey into sensorial discovery between a man who goes the Maharashtra countryside for his father’s funeral and an unwed farmer.
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Inside These Walls, I’ll Carry You: 'The Crowd' (2025, جماعت) 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.
Still from Petersen Vargas' 'Some Nights I Feel Like Walking'
Soft Boys, Sharp Corners – 'Some Nights I Feel Like Walking' (2024) by Petersen Vargas
XPOSED 2025: The Filipino director’s newest feature shoots Manila all aglow with neon light in a story of a group of young male sex workers who come together after tragedy, all over the course of one night.
mysterious gaze of the flamingo diego cespedes
The Village That Raised the Dolls – 'The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo' (2025, 'La misteriosa mirada del flamenco') by Diego Céspedes 
CANNES 2025: Diego Céspedes glides to a big win in Cannes' Un Certain Regard strand with this winding but unflinching debut centring the strength of trans women.
Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal in Oliver Hermanus' 'The History of Sound'
Sepia, Silence, and Sad Gays – 'The History of Sound' (2025) by Oliver Hermanus
CANNES 2025: Led by heartthrob favourites Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor, the South African director's new queer drama is disappointingly lukewarm, caught up in its own languorous melancholia.
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