Resorting to Tenderness – A Temporal Implant: ‘Before/After’ (2025) by Manoël Dupont
THESSALONIKI 2025: The filmmaker’s debut feature suggests the connection formed might be as temporary as cosmetic surgery itself.
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‘How are you going to light reality?’: Manoël Dupont on ‘Before/After’
KVIFF 2025: The first-time feature director speaks about creating an immensely collaborative and inanimate product based on improvisation and small shifts from so-called “reality”.
All You Need is Love and Queerpop: ‘Queens of Drama’ (2024) 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.
The Village That Raised the Dolls: ‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo’ (2025) 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.
Horny, Frustrated, Joyous: Best of Queer Shorts at Anima 2025
ANIMA 2025: We take a look at three highlights from this Brussels festival for animated films, which have all been critically acclaimed to date—for good reason.
‘It’s a film about how difficult it can be for queer people to love in a world that doesn’t love them’: Alexis Langlois on ‘Queens of Drama’
BFI FLARE 2025: The French filmmaker speaks on their campy, vibrant, and delightfully spectacular debut feature, a musical following the romance between two musical divas through tumultuous decades.
‘I wanted to make something gentle about queer people’: Géraldine Charpentier on ‘Messages personnels’
ANIMA 2025: The Brussels-based animator talks us through their newest short film, which brings to the screen “a little dyke story in [their] own city” inspired by the art style of cartoonists like Alison Bechdel.
Pomp in the Strangest of Circumstances: ‘Emilia Pérez’ (2024) by Jacques Audiard
Transgressive acts collide in this not-so-subversive crime musical with a handful of compelling moments that buckle under the pressure of critical interrogation.