Honouring the Inevitable: ‘Tangles’ (2026) by Leah Nelson
SAN SEBASTIÁN 2026: The Canadian filmmaker adapts Sarah Leavitt’s autobiographical novel to create what is undoubtedly one of the best queer animated features of recent years.
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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.
‘How do I experience my queerness in time?’: Brydie O’Connor on ‘Barbara Forever’
SUNDANCE 2026: The US director opens us up to more than just the life and work of Barbara Hammer, lesbian experimental filmmaker extraordinaire, by sharing how personal and cinematic queer lives are more than intertwined.
Deepa Mehta’s ‘Fire’ and the Lesbian Connotation of Saying No
Nearly three decades after its premiere in Toronto, the first film in Deepa Mehta’s acclaimed ‘Elements’ trilogy continues to offer a poignant yet scorching cinematic exemplar of lesbian refusal.
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.
Unapologetically Out in Space: ‘Lesbian Space Princess’ (2024) by Leela Varghese and Emma Hough Hobbs
BERLINALE 2025: The Australian animated feature isn’t the radical, anarchic queer middle-finger to the heteropatriarchy that it claims to be, but it is an eager, honest effort by these first-time feature directors.