‘It’s such a luxury to sit in flaws and humanness’: Elliot Tuttle, Kieron Moore, and Reed Birney on ‘Blue Film’
NEW RELEASES: The team behind the year’s most controversial queer film explore its nuance as they look back on their experience.
debut feature
‘I think identification is the only way we reach the other’: Alice Douard on ‘Love Letters’
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.
‘I want to change the way mainstream media sees queer women and queer Black people’: Sandulela Asanda on ‘Black Burns Fast’
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.
‘I always come back to women’s relationships and how women do so much’: Gloria Mercer and Bethany Brown on ‘A Safe Distance’
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.
In Our Own World By Night: ‘Ephemera’ (2026) by Shan Jiang
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.
‘The Geneva you see in the film is the one we belong to’: Céline Carridroit and Aline Suter on ‘Summer Drift’
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.
A Fragile Sanctuary: ‘Elephants in the Fog’ (2026) by Abinash Bikram Shah
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.
Oh, What Beautiful Machinery: ‘Summer Drift’ (2026) by Céline Carridroit and Aline Suter
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.
‘I want people to broaden their horizons about what African love can be’: Pamela Adie on ‘Ìfé: (The Sequel)’
BFI FLARE 2026: The Nigerian LGBTQ+ activist and filmmaker turns from producing to directing to create the long-awaited sequel to the first lesbian film in Nigeria.
Covering the Tiers: ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’ (2026) by Paloma Schneideman
SUNDANCE 2026: The New Zealand filmmaker’s debut feature leans into rationality and the retrospective gaze as a means of emotional comfort, where its narrative neatness is exceedingly alluring.