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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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.
‘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.
‘I wanted to make something gentle about queer people’: Géraldine Charpentier on ‘Messages personnels’
ANIMA 2025: The Brussels-based animator talks us through their newest short film, which brings to the screen “a little dyke story in [their] own city” inspired by the art style of cartoonists like Alison Bechdel.
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.
‘You have to keep running to hold on to hope’: Julian Chou on ‘Blind Love’
ROTTERDAM 2025: Premiering her sophomore feature, the Taiwanese director spoke to us about the multifaceted ways in which her newest film speaks to the “contradictory nature of contemporary Taiwanese society”.
Navigating Girlhood in the Chaos: ‘1 Girl Infinite’ (2025) by Lilly Hu
ROTTERDAM 2025: In a bustling southern Chinese city, two codependent teen girls navigate the dueling loneliness and desire of these all-engulfing fateful years as one falls for the other.
Sapphic Love in a Changing Taiwan: ‘Blind Love’ (2025) by Julian Chou
ROTTERDAM 2025: Julian Chou’s sophomore feature presents a meandering look at the state of queer acceptance in Taiwan through the conceit of an unexpected love triangle.
Queering the Divine Comedy: ‘Rains Over Babel’ (2025) by Gala del Sol
SUNDANCE/ROTTERDAM 2025: It’s colourful, it’s counterhegemonic, it’s the coolest club inspired by those in Cali, Colombia—it’s Babel, where you can gamble with Death and order drinks from the Devil.
‘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.