Reading Queerness from the Mainstream: Joke D’Heer on Conducting Queer Readings of Popular Films
ANIMA 2026: Through the work of this Gent-based media scholar, we explore the concept of and intention behind their live queer readings of films.
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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.
Oh, What Beautiful Machinery: ‘Summer Drift’ (2026) by Céline Carridroit and Aline Suter
CANNES 2026: The Swiss filmmakers create a little piece of magic in their debut feature, a docufiction about a trans woman determined to fix up her old VW Beetle for racing: her quest for personal redemption.
‘Many movies I love are not explicitly queer in content, but more in tone’: Jamie Kiernan O’Brien on ‘Gender Studies’
SUNDANCE 2026: The NYC-based filmmaker discusses the inception behind her first short at the festival, finding a balance in tone, and wanting to be seen by all types of audiences.
‘We are just mediums for ideas and visions and sparks’: Kukla on ‘Fantasy’
LOCARNO / SARAJEVO 2025: The Slovenian director shares the multifaceted inspiration for her film, in which three women friends meet a trans woman whose presence encourages them to break out of their patriarchal prison.
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.
‘The writing of history has to be messier’: Paula Tomás Marques on ‘Two Times João Liberada’
INDIELISBOA 2025: The writer-director shares her perspective on the disruption of standardised historical narratives, the politics of representation, and fostering materiality that evokes the power of archival work.
San Francisco, I’m Coming Home: Heterotopia and Elena Oxman’s ‘Outerlands’
SFFILM 2025: The US writer-director makes her tenderly liminal feature debut with a story that’s just as much a reckoning with being stuck in limbo as it is a love letter to The City.
‘The film was a reclamation of this right to imagine our lives, our stories’: Kani Lapuerta on ‘Niñxs’
VISIONS DU RÉEL 2025: Mexican filmmaker Kani Lapuerta shares his experience of spending eight years bringing us into the joyous world of Karla, a young trans girl living in a town outside of Mexico City.