What is Obsession, If Not Grief Persevering? – ‘Twinless’ (2025) by James Sweeney
SUNDANCE 2025: The Alaska-born writer-director’s sophomore feature is just as playful as it is devastating, also featuring a very versatile Dylan O’Brien.
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Emancipatory Road-Tripping – ‘Where the Wind Comes From’ (2025, ‘Tunis–Djerba’) by Amel Guellaty
SUNDANCE/ROTTERDAM 2025: Two young Tunisians set off on a cross-country journey with the end goal of escaping their systemic social conditions in this genuinely sincere, vibrant, and hopeful debut from Tunisian writer-director Amel Guellaty.
You Are Being Watched – ‘Plainclothes’ (2025) by Carmen Emmi
SUNDANCE 2025: In this stylistically creative debut feature, a young police officer in ‘90s upstate New York tasked with entrapping gay men must decide between staying true to himself and his rising career.
Brusque Brushstrokes – ‘My Old Ass’ (2024) by Megan Park
A flipped heteronormative script is not enough to make up for the emotional nuance lacking in this story of a young lesbian-identifying teen who unexpectedly falls for a young man.
Purple Hour’s Top Films of 2024 Featuring LGBTQIA+ Narratives
Diverse in style, genre, mode of storytelling, country of origin, and so much more, here are our picks for 2024’s best films from a queer lens and canted angle.
Deep Cuts in the Catskills – ‘Good One’ (2024) by India Donaldson
Lush forests reveal unfortunate life truths to a teen girl on a backpacking trip with her father and his friend.