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.
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‘We’re going to talk about being gay; we’re going to talk about relationships, sex, everything’: Marco Berger on ‘The Astronaut Lovers’
BFI FLARE 2025: The Argentinian writer-director takes us into the ideas behind his latest feature, including his desire to make a film inspired by the traditions of classic romantic comedies and composing each shot like a painting.
What We Perform in the Shadows: ‘Night Stage’ (2025) by Marcio Reolon and Filipe Matzembacher
BERLINALE 2025: The Teddy Award-winning Brazilian filmmaking duo returns to the festival with an erotic but not-so-thrilling melodrama where the film’s lighting ultimately steals the spotlight.
‘There is a difference between longing and reality’: Jun Li and Jayden Cheung on ‘Queerpanorama’
BERLINALE 2025: The writer-director and lead actor talk connection in an estranging world, staging intimate scenes, and creating harmonious visuals on a low budget.
Intimacy and Isolation in Cosmopolitan Translation: ‘Queerpanorama’ (2025) by Jun Li
BERLINALE 2025: A young man traverses a series of corporeal gay encounters in Hong Kong in this self-described panoramic overview of loneliness and fleeting connection in today’s world.
‘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.
‘This is what we thought was necessary in Latin American cinema’: Gala del Sol on ‘Rains Over Babel’
SUNDANCE 2025: The young Colombian-born filmmaker speaks about finding inspiration in traditions of Latin American magical realism and creating her stylish debut feature in collaboration with local theatre actors and her family.
What is Obsession, If Not Grief Persevering?: ‘Twinless’ (2025) by James Sweeney
SUNDANCE 2025: The Alaska-born writer-director’s sophomore feature is just as playful as it is devastating, also featuring a very versatile Dylan O’Brien.
You Are Being Watched: ‘Plainclothes’ (2025) by Carmen Emmi
SUNDANCE 2025: In this stylistically creative debut feature, a young police officer in ‘90s upstate New York tasked with entrapping gay men must decide between staying true to himself and his rising career.