Writer-director Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake) explores desire and mercy in his newest queer noir, Misericordia. Translating to Mercy, the film follows Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) who returns to his Saint-Martial home for his late boss’s funeral. He soon becomes […]

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Elliot Page has been nothing but forthcoming about his transition. After a best-selling memoir detailing his experiences, Page is now ready to explore the issues trans people face on-screen in the new drama Close To You. Directed by BAFTA-winner Dominic Savage, […]

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After bringing audiences to tears with her urgent directorial debut The Fallout, writer-director Megan Park delivers a more lighthearted and hilarious look at female adolescence in her comedy My Old Ass. Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, […]

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Bobbi Salvör Menuez inhabits struggling actor and recently-transitioned Leo in writer-director Noah Schamus’ Summer Solstice, a new twist on the buddy comedy from a unique perspective. Juggling a series of odd jobs and auditions, trans man Leo is unexpectedly paid […]

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Charlie Plummer finds love and discovers his own version of the American dream in National Anthem. Photographer Luke Gilford directs in his feature-length debut from a script he penned alongside Kevin Best and David Largman Murray. Premiering at last year’s […]

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Spring just might be the season for electrifying anti-love stories with Love Lies Bleeding and Challengers. Joining the frey might be writer-director Sophie Dupuis’ queer-drag romance Solo – a rare portrait of dealing with toxic relationships while finding oneself. Set […]

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One film that shocked the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year was Sebastián Silva’s Rotting In The Sun, with its graphic, unsimulated gay sex scenes and full-frontal male nudity. But the Chilean filmmaker’s newest film goes much deeper than all […]

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Ira Sachs is a master at telling stories of authentic, yet complicated love. His newest film, Passages, centers on a love triangle that blurs the line between love and art. Franz Rogowski (Transit) stars as Tomas, an egotistic German filmmaker […]

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One of the most exciting, daring new voices to come out of Sundance this year is director D. Smith. Her feature directorial debut, Kokomo City, is a black-and-white-shot documentary that dives into the lives of four black trans sex workers […]

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t’s so easy during pride month to find films that speak to the difficulties of our experience, and I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that, but it’s nice to smile about. It’s nice to look at smaller stories where […]

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