Beneath the Lobster’s Shell: ‘Bucks Harbor’ (2026) by Pete Muller
BERLINALE 2026: Men of a small fishing town are revealed for who they are beyond stereotypes in this gentle, multifaceted portrait of masculinity and community.
US cinema
Be Careful What You Wish For: ‘I Want Your Sex’ (2026) by Gregg Araki
SUNDANCE 2026: Gregg Araki is back with this fun but surprisingly tame BDSM dramedy set between the riotous art world and the fantasies of the boy-next-door turned upside down.
‘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.
‘Queer cinema is inseparable from independent storytelling’: John Nein, senior programmer at Sundance Film Festival
SUNDANCE 2026: We kick off a new series via a conversation about the importance of queer stories to American independent cinema and Sundance’s approach to supporting filmmakers.
‘This is feminist, this isn’t fantastical’: Annapurna Sriram on ‘Fucktoys’
KVIFF 2025: We spoke with the Nashville-born filmmaker about the worldbuilding in Trashtown, USA, and rejecting the expectation of what a feminist film and a critique of capitalism need to look like.
‘I’m really interested in the aesthetics of Americana when you put queer people, Black people in those spaces’: Josalynn Smith on ‘Ride or Die’
TRIBECA 2025: The debuting director shares how drawing from personal conversations and queer cinema from the ’90s helped her create one of the strongest queer road movies of recent years.
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.
Sepia, Silence, and Sad Gays: ‘The History of Sound’ (2025) by Oliver Hermanus
CANNES 2025: Led by heartthrob favourites Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, the South African director’s new queer drama is disappointingly lukewarm, caught up in its own languorous melancholia.
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.
‘This interview is a meta extension of the film’: Ivan Leung and Harrison Xu on ‘Extremely Unique Dynamic’
QUEER EAST 2025: The long-time friends and now directors offer a look into what they really wanted to create, as filmmakers, in their riotous comedic debut feature.