In the Mundanity of Understanding: ‘A Woman’s Life’ (2026) by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
CANNES 2026: Léa Drucker and Mélanie Thierry are fleeting lovers in this sophomore feature that rejects the manic trope of irresistible sapphic passion.
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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.
Sapphic Origami: ‘The Little Sister’ (2025) by Hafsia Herzi
TROMSØ 2026: Starring breakout Nadia Melliti, this Queer Palm winner unfolds a potent queer coming-of-age story that’s soft to the touch and warm to the heart.
All You Need is Love and Queerpop: ‘Queens of Drama’ (2024) by Alexis Langlois
XPOSED 2025: The French filmmaker soars to beautifully chaotic, queer, campy heights with this festival favourite about two star-crossed lovers looking down the barrel of the music industry’s straight and conformist gun.
Movement Beyond the Surface: Notes on Shatara Michelle Ford’s ‘Dreams in Nightmares’
INSIDE OUT 2025: The writer-director’s sophomore feature encourages us to think critically about their characters in space and through the liberatory act of movement.
The Village That Raised the Dolls: ‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo’ (2025) by Diego Céspedes
CANNES 2025: Diego Céspedes glides to a big win in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard strand with this winding but unflinching debut centring the strength of trans women.
Horny, Frustrated, Joyous: Best of Queer Shorts at Anima 2025
ANIMA 2025: We take a look at three highlights from this Brussels festival for animated films, which have all been critically acclaimed to date—for good reason.
‘It’s a film about how difficult it can be for queer people to love in a world that doesn’t love them’: Alexis Langlois on ‘Queens of Drama’
BFI FLARE 2025: The French filmmaker speaks on their campy, vibrant, and delightfully spectacular debut feature, a musical following the romance between two musical divas through tumultuous decades.
‘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.
‘The way to get there is to have an emotional approach to your intimacy scenes’: Mathias Broe on ‘Sauna’
SUNDANCE 2025: The director of this new gay love story speaks about collaborating with a Copenhagen porn collective and drawing from real-life trans experiences in the Danish healthcare system.