With numerous animated films gracing our fall season, one to absolutely look forward to is writer-directors Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese’s Lesbian Space Princess. Winner of the Teddy Award at this year’s Berlinale, the Australian production features the voice […]

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Following their collaboration on the explosive romantic drama Passages, director Ira Sachs and star Ben Whishaw reunite for an intimate, verité-like portrait of a famed 20th-century photographer. Peter Hujar’s Day stars Whishaw and Rebecca Hall as NYC-based photographer Peter Hujar […]

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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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The relationship of two longtime friends is challenged in writer-director Noah Schamus’ Summer Solstice. Told from a queer and trans perspective, it centers on two reunited college best friends (Bobbi Salvör Menuez and Marianne Rendón), one trans and one straight/cisgender, […]

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One film that has certainly made waves over the past few years is writer/director/actor Vera Drew’s superhero parody, The People’s Joker. Despite a world premiere screening at TIFF 2022, Drew had to pull it due to copyright issues. However, there […]

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In HtN’s review of Jane Schoenbrun’s feature directorial debut We’re All Going To The World’s Fair, Mike S. Ryan wrote “One gets a sense right away that the filmmaker understands that a personal story structure is essential to a unique […]

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Goran Stolevski is a filmmaker on the rise who’s had three strong features over the last few years. The Macedonian-Australian director made a splash at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival with his witchy horror You Won’t Be Alone. He followed […]

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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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Sundance breakout Mutt, a queer coming-of-age drama, is finally getting its release stateside this summer. It got an ecstatic audience reception at its world premiere, and showed that a star is born in Lio Mehiel who won the U.S. Dramatic […]

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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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