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.

BFI FLARE 2025: In an unwavering refusal of cynicism, the German writer-director-actor creates a thought-provoking sophomore feature by pointing to life’s inherent ironies and beautiful moments as they play out in often unexpected ways.

SXSW 2025: In her self-described “bubblegum grindhouse” feature, the Nashville-born actor turned writer-director creates a stylistically compelling, even if at times slightly too plotless, sex work-cum-road movie comedy.

SXSW 2025: With her feature debut about a couple on their emotionally shaky honeymoon, GG Hawkins interrogates a contemporary feeling of social malaise where we simply don't know how to be alone.

BERLINALE 2025: The Australian animated feature isn’t the radical, anarchic queer middle-finger to the heteropatriarchy that it claims to be, but it is an eager, honest effort by these first-time feature directors.

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.