‘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, साबर बोंडं) by Rohan Parashuram Kanawade
SXSW LONDON 2025 / INSIDE OUT 2025: This multi-award winner is a quiet journey into sensorial discovery between a man who goes 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.
No Shame, No Gain: Queer(ed) Shorts at Sundance 2025
SUNDANCE 2025: In this report, we highlight five interesting Sundance short films of different styles that we found memorable across the festival’s LGBTQIA+ offerings this year.
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.