‘It’s about being seen’: Devin Shears and Benjamin Turnbull on ‘Cherub’
INSIDE OUT 2025: From graduation project to festival favourite, the director and actor discuss sincerity, vulnerability, and forming relationships through images.
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Beneath the Shade of Your Leaves, I Grow: ‘Cactus Pears’ (2025) by Rohan Parashuram Kanawade
SXSW LONDON / INSIDE OUT 2025: This multi-award winner is a quiet journey into sensorial discovery between a man who goes to the Maharashtra countryside for his father’s funeral and an unwed farmer.
Deepa Mehta’s ‘Fire’ and the Lesbian Connotation of Saying No
Nearly three decades after its premiere in Toronto, the first film in Deepa Mehta’s acclaimed ‘Elements’ trilogy continues to offer a poignant yet scorching cinematic exemplar of lesbian refusal.
Brusque Brushstrokes: ‘My Old Ass’ (2024) by Megan Park
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.