SAN SEBASTIÁN 2026: The Canadian filmmaker adapts Sarah Leavitt’s autobiographical novel to create what is undoubtedly one of the best queer animated features of recent years.

SITGES 2026: In his sophomore feature, Kasper Kalle moulds a Faroes-set Danish queer gothic out of a supernatural romance rooted in confinement, intimate suggestion, and anticipation.

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2026: The Taiwanese director’s solo feature debut is a subtle story on the complexity of queer childhood, all carved into an impressive piece of Taiwanese realism.

KARLOVY VARY 2026: The Burmese director's prize-winning debut feature traces the friendship and increasingly ambiguous relationship between two young women in the capital of Myanmar.

KARLOVY VARY 2026: This directorial debut of the British TV star brings an unexpectedly queer story to the fore of a prison drama.

KARLOVY VARY 2026: The Berlin-based filmmaker transgresses the boundaries between closeness, seduction, fixation, and intrusion in his debut feature, set in a town overrun by tourism on the Croatian Adriatic.

FRAMELINE50: With her feature debut, the César-winning French filmmaker makes her mark: rhythm, a camera that follows, and a story that's close to home.

KARLOVY VARY 2026: The young Italian filmmaker moulds a new face for folk horror in his newest work, which ties the monstrous to the act of repression.

FRAMELINE50: A young sapphic Tunisian woman living in Paris returns home for her uncle's funeral, both entangling and disentangling the complexities of a familial diorama when she learns her uncle, too, was queer.