KARLOVY VARY 2026: With the first film from Myanmar at the Czech festival, the writer-director shares his conscientious approach to a debut feature focused on the complexities of desire, intimacy, and economic reality of working women in contemporary Myanmar.
KARLOVY VARY 2026: Between public spaces and private encounters comes the Croatian director’s debut feature, which trades in different forms of intimacy through all that is left unspoken.
NEW RELEASES: The team behind the year’s most controversial queer film explore its nuance as they look back on their experience.
FRAMELINE50: The French filmmaker talks to us about staying in the realm of questions, awkwardness, and misunderstandings while building a family in her first feature.
FRAMELINE50: The South African filmmaker shares her no-holds-barred approach to making films, knowing what her audience wants to see, and bringing portrayals of Black girls back to a genuinely recognisable reality.
FRAMELINE50: The director and one of the stars of this Canadian thriller talk about the unique energy of a small set, forging sapphic intimacy onscreen. and coincidentally making an eerily resonant film.
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: The directors chat with us about capturing that alternative view of the city they know so well, letting film and life meld together, and the importance of a little patience—and a lot of flexibility.
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.
CANNES 2026: The Swiss filmmakers create a little piece of magic in their debut feature, a docufiction about a trans woman determined to fix up her old VW Beetle for racing: her quest for personal redemption.
