‘People who do not eat well are not to be trusted with artwork’: Viv Li on ‘Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest’
KARLOVY VARY 2026: The China-born, Berlin-based director dishes up East and West without ever tasting resolution.
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‘It was important to show that transition is very much a collaborative experience’: Amy Jenkins and Adam Sieswerda on ‘Adam’s Apple’
FRAMELINE50: The mother and son duo share their experiences of looking at the same memories from different temporal vantage points and their thoughts on a trans gaze in documentary filmmaking.
‘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.
‘My job is to pull queer radicalism back to where it once belonged’: Fil Ieropoulos on ‘Uchronia’
BERLINALE / BFI FLARE 2026: If utopia has been overexploited as a politico-philosophical device, perhaps it’s time to turn to “uchronia” instead—so we chat with the Greek filmmaker to unpack his latest feature, which interrogates the idea of queer history itself.
Voice Notes: On Rand Abou Fakher’s ‘Why Do I See You in Everything?’
ROTTERDAM 2026: We chat about this film, which explores the friendship between two Syrian men juxtaposed with footage of the Syrian Revolution in a cinematic conversation about caretaking and breaking cycles of violence.
Beneath the Lobster’s Shell: ‘Bucks Harbor’ (2026) by Pete Muller
BERLINALE 2026: Men of a small fishing town are revealed for who they are beyond stereotypes in this gentle, multifaceted portrait of masculinity and community.
The Fluidity of Desire: ‘La belle année’ (2026) by Angelica Ruffier
ROTTERDAM 2026: This graceful documentary self-investigation uncovers all that remains in the home of her late father, including her now 20-year-old desire for her childhood teacher.
‘The film was a reclamation of this right to imagine our lives, our stories’: Kani Lapuerta on ‘Niñxs’
VISIONS DU RÉEL 2025: Mexican filmmaker Kani Lapuerta shares his experience of spending eight years bringing us into the joyous world of Karla, a young trans girl living in a town outside of Mexico City.
Entrusting a Legacy: The Politics of Remembrance in Cristina Costantini’s ‘Sally’
SXSW 2025: We explore how a new documentary about astronaut Sally Ride opens up a vital realm of questions around the remembrance of LGBTQIA+ individuals in the public consciousness after their passing.
‘You have to be able to handle the normality that comes after a dream’: Victoria Verseau on ‘Trans Memoria’
TROMSØ 2025: In this wide-ranging conversation, the writer-director speaks on her relationship to documentary/fiction, the importance of the mystified world, and creating films about the trans experience that aren’t exclusively uplifting.