SUNDANCE/ROTTERDAM 2025: Two young Tunisians set off on a cross-country journey with the end goal of escaping their systemic social conditions in this genuinely sincere, vibrant, and hopeful debut from Tunisian writer-director Amel Guellaty.

SUNDANCE 2025: In this stylistically creative debut feature, a young police officer in ‘90s upstate New York tasked with entrapping gay men must decide between staying true to himself and his rising career.

TROMSØ 2025: The Swedish filmmaker offers a raw and personal collage of her medical transition by returning to the treatment centre where her gender-affirming surgery took place in 2012, accompanied by others preparing to do the same.

TROMSØ 2025: In 1950s New Zealand, three teen girls boldly take on the dark and violent surviving institutions of British colonialism —and the result is surprisingly cutesy, if not a little too much so.

A flipped heteronormative script is not enough to make up for the emotional nuance lacking in this story of a young lesbian-identifying teen who unexpectedly falls for a young man.

Transgressive acts collide in this not-so-subversive crime musical with a handful of compelling moments that buckle under the pressure of critical interrogation.