Gestures of love reach further than any demonstration of hate in Mast-del, an experimental poem about forbidden desires, both inside and outside post-revolution Iranian cinema.
Refusing any coherence, the campy DIY touches in In-Hyuk Jung’s latest alien-invading sci-fi action-romance are commemorative of 90s New Queer Cinema: feeling out of place is inherently queer.
In this Finnish sci-fi love story, Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage meets Philip K. Dick’s philosophies on the existence of android souls.
Through an experimental film essay, filmmaker Coline Confort aims to capture the “rupture and repair” of a relationship.
Ary Zara’s intimate, beguiling portrait of a trans sex worker takes trans* storytelling in new directions.
Rita Barbossa presents a woman in need for real connection and underlines the right to embrace the pleasures of life without shame.
Nicolai G.H Johansen’s horror-thriller investigates the roots of fear and anxiety—the one associated with a first love, a first touch, a first time of carelessly crossing a boundary towards the Other.
This devious domestic animated drama from the acclaimed Špela Čadež seems enthusiastically committed to realist cinema.
In Doytcheva’s account of Bulgarian queer life, we are constantly reminded that identification does not have to be tied in to subjective manner of narrating.
Two young Black men are on a hike together. There are sparks of intense eroticism. But Tebogo Malebogo is not one to kiss and tell, nor are his characters.
Cross-referencing politics and body politics, reproduction and pandemics, Isadora Neves Marques creates a juxtaposition between a warning dystopia and a dangerous reality.
In Symbiosis, Hungarian animator Nadja Andrasev tells the story of a deceived wife who starts a bizarre investigation of her husband’s infidelities.
