The Gaze Always Leads: ‘Love Letters’ (2025) by Alice Douard
FRAMELINE50: With her feature debut, the César-winning French filmmaker makes her mark: rhythm, a camera that follows, and a story that’s close to home.
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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.
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.
The Ecstasy of the Monstrous: ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ (2026) by Jane Schoenbrun
CANNES 2026: The US filmmaker creates something psychosexually irresistible in this queer fantasia on the ecstasy of spectatorship and embracing the darkness of desire.
Seeing Is Not Believing: The Bodily Politics of Proof in Markus Schleinzer’s ‘Rose’
BERLINALE 2026: Through both his visual choices and character choices, the Austrian filmmaker puts forth the simple but profound proposition that we should look elsewhere than the corporeal to satisfy our need for a certain truth.
Mother Mary Comes to Me: The Sensuous Renaissance of ‘Little Trouble Girls’
BFI FLARE 2026: We take a look at one of the most intriguing films of 2025, Slovenian filmmaker Urška Djukić’s story of Catholicism-meets-sexuality, made unexpected.
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.