KARLOVY VARY 2026: The Burmese director's prize-winning debut feature traces the friendship and increasingly ambiguous relationship between two young women who want different things from each other while working together at a factory in the capital of...

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.

CANNES 2026: Léa Drucker and Mélanie Thierry are fleeting lovers in this sophomore feature that rejects the manic trope of irresistible sapphic passion.

TRIBECA25 / FRAMELINE50: In this directorial debut, two young women find themselves in a fleeting romantic encounter over one night in Shanghai, where memories are both made and uprooted as the duo enters a space of their own.

CANNES 2026: Between a supportive community that suffocates and an anonymised village that condemns, a Kinnar trans woman searches for her own path of belonging in this Cannes-awarded Nepalese feature debut.