‘It’s such a luxury to sit in flaws and humanness’: Elliot Tuttle, Kieron Moore, and Reed Birney on ‘Blue Film’
NEW RELEASES: The team behind the year’s most controversial queer film explore its nuance as they look back on their experience.
US cinema
‘Is queer cinema ultimately changing form? Festivals are in an ideal position to have that conversation’: Faridah Gbadamosi, Tribeca senior programmer
TRIBECA 2026: Ahead of its 25th anniversary edition, we learned about the New York festival’s audience-driven approach, a move toward queer stories existing rather than explaining, and festivals as a platform for queer cinema to evolve as a form.
The Ecstasy of the Monstrous: ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ (2026) by Jane Schoenbrun
CANNES 2026: The US filmmaker creates something psychosexually irresistible in this queer fantasia on the ecstasy of spectatorship and embracing the darkness of desire.
‘I thought it would be fun to find a cliché and turn it on its head’: Mickey Stepanskiy on ‘Knights on a Quest for Love’
ANIMA 2026: The US filmmaker explores how his light-hearted take on a topsy-turvy trope meaningfully turns a patriarchal fairytale upside down in his endearing comedic animated short.
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.
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, Sundance Film Festival senior programmer
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.